Hey akuma I had this happen to me the first time as well.
What I have learned is that much of curing depends on how the buds were dried. If the buds were dried fast when they were airy their potential may have been diminished. I agree with DirtyBoy that you should have put them into jars earlier but I would say overall that when the bud is airy it is more important to slowly dry it than it is to put them into jars earlier. Slow drying goes for dense bud as well but becomes less of an issue.
The goal is to dry the bud as slowly as possible, maybe someone knows the reason for this in more depth. It has something to do with chemical breakdowns and sugar formation. Also the breakdown and "evaporation" of chlorophyll. Fast drying will compromise this critical process. In order for this process to be carried out, drying must be done slowly.
As t0k3s suggests,
In my current attempts at drying/curing I have had MUCH better success by not even paying attention to how many days its been. I simply let the plant determine when its ready and forget about monitoring the number of days. You want to let the buds dry slowly, for small plants this has taken me 8-10 days and for larger plants around 14 days (roughly). I wait until there is no smell of hay at all, and that all the stems have a loud snap to them. If they can bend AT ALL i wait another day. Try not to look at them too much, once a day is best. After putting them into jars I have found the most optimum ones become remoistened on their own in the next 2 to 4 days. From this point the smell really starts developing.
This is simply what has been most effective for me, and it takes a few attempts to start getting the hang of it. I was kind of disappointed too at first, but it was only my first try. It will just keep getting better and better, so don't be discouraged!
Just keep trying
What I have learned is that much of curing depends on how the buds were dried. If the buds were dried fast when they were airy their potential may have been diminished. I agree with DirtyBoy that you should have put them into jars earlier but I would say overall that when the bud is airy it is more important to slowly dry it than it is to put them into jars earlier. Slow drying goes for dense bud as well but becomes less of an issue.
The goal is to dry the bud as slowly as possible, maybe someone knows the reason for this in more depth. It has something to do with chemical breakdowns and sugar formation. Also the breakdown and "evaporation" of chlorophyll. Fast drying will compromise this critical process. In order for this process to be carried out, drying must be done slowly.
As I said at first, this same thing happened to me. I dried too quickly but then I remoistened and continued to cure for 2 months, and as DirtyBoy said, it made very little difference.This realllly sucks.. that when bud gets fully dried for the first time that it's done curing. I don't see how remoisturizing the buds and then slowing down the drying process by jar-ing them wouldn't work.. Sorry I'm not a botanist but logically this would make sense.
As t0k3s suggests,
This sounds intriguing to me and wouldn't hurt to try.open it for 8-10 hours a day instead of 2-3 and do this for 3 days then see if there is a difference.
In my current attempts at drying/curing I have had MUCH better success by not even paying attention to how many days its been. I simply let the plant determine when its ready and forget about monitoring the number of days. You want to let the buds dry slowly, for small plants this has taken me 8-10 days and for larger plants around 14 days (roughly). I wait until there is no smell of hay at all, and that all the stems have a loud snap to them. If they can bend AT ALL i wait another day. Try not to look at them too much, once a day is best. After putting them into jars I have found the most optimum ones become remoistened on their own in the next 2 to 4 days. From this point the smell really starts developing.
This is simply what has been most effective for me, and it takes a few attempts to start getting the hang of it. I was kind of disappointed too at first, but it was only my first try. It will just keep getting better and better, so don't be discouraged!
Just keep trying