Hay smell when drying

For the guys who dry cannabis perfectly, do you smell hay at any point? I'm at day 3, if I put my nose on the drying bud I can smell faint hay aroma. It's not strong, I have to get in there to smell.

Is this just chlorophyll/other stuff coming out the plant or I'm drying wrong?

Normal........the buds go through different stages when drying/curing.

smells like hay let it stay smells like skunk smoke that funk.

Can'tGrow said:

For the guys who dry cannabis perfectly, do you smell hay at any point? I'm at day 3, if I put my nose on the drying bud I can smell faint hay aroma. It's not strong, I have to get in there to smell.

Is this just chlorophyll/other stuff coming out the plant or I'm drying wrong?

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Pic of the bud would help my bud never smells like hay at any point. Most common reason to smell hay is bud was picked premature.

Can'tGrow said:

For the guys who dry cannabis perfectly, do you smell hay at any point? I'm at day 3, if I put my nose on the drying bud I can smell faint hay aroma. It's not strong, I have to get in there to smell.

Is this just chlorophyll/other stuff coming out the plant or I'm drying wrong?

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Drying to fast. Slow the dry down.
777 was the old perfect dry conditions. 7 days, 70 degrees, 70% RH.
I've got nothing close to that or a nice way to get it. I hang until the popcorn stiffens up, Strip it all off into golf ball nugs. Toss the buds in a closed bucket or can at night. Spread them out on a few trashcan lids for the day and keep feeling them up. still soft and mushy = needs more time out. Stiff and almost crunchy = back in the can. At the end of 7 to 10 days you want to be at 65-62% RH.. Below 55% all bio activity the Cure depend on stops so do NOT over dry, Hot and dry here even in winter and a lot of the dry depends on local Humidity. Cold and dry can be just as bad.

I was drying at 64-68F and 61RH. I raised the RH to around 65 now. This a bud, doesn't look premature to me. 8-9 weeks

Also I hung the whole plant with fan leaves and all

Can'tGrow said:

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I was drying at 64-68F and 61RH. I raised the RH to around 65 now. This a bud, doesn't look premature to me. 8-9 weeks

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Being super knit picky I see a couple of white hairs. Probably had maybe another week?

Can'tGrow said:

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I was drying at 64-68F and 61RH. I raised the RH to around 65 now. This a bud, doesn't look premature to me. 8-9 weeks

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Looks beautiful. I don’t pull before 70 days. No matter what it looks like. Probably left some weight on the table

Wattzzup said:

Looks beautiful. I don’t pull before 70 days. No matter what it looks like. Probably left some weight on the table

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70 days including ir excluding the first 2 weeks? I start counting after the stretch

I start on flip day. Not sure how you know when the stretch is over until after it’s over.

One time on a breeders website I read “11 weeks for face melting potency”.

Okay so I harvested at 10 weeks too

Yep, same here. I cut my plant down 3 days ago; it smelled like ABSOLUTE DANK the first two days. Today, it's sort of green-grassy by comparison to the last couple days. It'll be "grassy" smelling for a couple days, then NO SMELL at all for about 2-4 days. . .. then come trim day, if you did everything right or even just well enough, that smell should be FUCKIN BANGIN while you trim

SamRD said:

Okay so I harvested at 10 weeks too

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Sounds like you did everything you can do. The plant looks great. Hopefully the smell comes back for ya.

Smells like wet leaves for a bit while it dries. I can dry in 5 days (not on purpose) and it still smells killer as long as I jar at 60%

Can'tGrow said:

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I was drying at 64-68F and 61RH. I raised the RH to around 65 now. This a bud, doesn't look premature to me. 8-9 weeks

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Is that hay

sickboy444888222 said:

Is that hay

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I don’t know. Last night I was high looking at the drying weed and I was seeing each trichome as a separate universe. It all depends on how you look at it.

when you fuck up drying and you get hay smell. usually after a few months of curing the hey smell goes down a lot and you get some of the weed smell back.

Low and slow how big are the buds make a difference