I harvested it a week and a half ago.

2 and a half weeks it should be all good and ready to smoke. How about taking looking in the faq on the site to do a water cure. Just take a few buds not all just to try it out the water cure takes a week. I havent tried it personally but when i harvest I'm gonna water cure 4 or 5 grams just to try it out.

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yup had this prob at one point

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Mine mostly smell like hay when hang drying and 1st week in jars. After that, the real aroma comes on! I like 4 weeks to 6 for the perfect smell/taste for me. But I do start smoking some of it after a week in a jar to sample, but always taste worse so I wait......

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Anyone done a water cure? what was it like compaired to glass cure.

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I have the same problem i have some herb i grew.... dried and have been curing properly for three weeks.. Smells like skunk taste like grass.. It does taste better and better but still bad.. The last week it had been in the fridge and has gotten alot beter.. Im almost to the point where im like 'ok fuck it' and go get some flavored drops or whatever to try and save it.. but i guess im going to keep waiting.
I guess ill flush longer next time..

I dont flush at all, taste and smells great.......

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here goes, I have lurked here for years, and only joined very recently. This is my first post.

First and the absolutely most important thing: BE FRICKING PAITIENT. Exactally what do I maen by this? Exactally what I said. BE FRICKING PAITIENT.

I will try to break this down and make this simple as I can. There are two parts to this, the first being the dry, and the second being the cure. I can not stress how important both parts are, but they are very different and both require you to BE FRICKING PATIENT.

You can use the best genetics, and if you screw up the dry and cure you screw up the potential of your bud.

In my experience it often differs depending on the time of year. East coast (south of the mason dixon line) summers are much more humid than other places I have lived, and I am going to talk about the conditions here. So even with central A/C (which in theory should some what dehumidify the air) it often takes longer to dry and cure your babies than it does in the winter. So be careful. Different parts of the country and different weather and in particular different relative humidity (outdoor humidity WILL effect the conditions indoors in most, but in particular older homes) conditions can greatly vary the length required to dry your bud. They tend to seem to dry much quicker in winter than the summer. Often by several days, and sometimes even more than that. If you have gas heat in the winter it is even faster. So just because in one person's situation they are dry in three days in the nevada desert last january, doesn't mean that yours are gonna be done in 3-4 days in august in the southeast.

Step 1.) THE DRY:
In general I hang branches or longer buds until they feel dry, NOT almost dry, but until they feel dry. Several good signs that they are geting close are that the branches will snap, and the larger branches have become hollow. If your larger branches are not hollow, IMHO, they are not close to dry. PERIOD, no exceptions. This is always a great sign that you are close to dry. another good sign is that your branches will snap cleanly. I often hung my branches in a dark closet with a small fan to move and recirculate the air, and the more that were in there, in my experience, the longer they were in there. Remember, BE FRICKIN PAITIENT.

Step 2.) The Bag
You don't necessarily have to do this step. But I do, and I reccomend it. I now remove the buds from the larger branches. (i.e., don't pass on the branches for a couple extra bucks. that's just a dick move) If there is a visibale gap remove the buds and dispose of the excess stem. Just do it. I then place them in a paper bag (they should feel dry, not almost, but feel dry) and rollup the top of the bag. This is the kind of paper bag that you get at the grocery store when you say "Paper" instead of plastic. I then open and close this bag every several hours. When you open the bag for the first several times you will notice that the buds are slightly moist again. This is the flowers drawing the last of the moisture out of the stems. Do not forget to stir your buds around so that it is not always the same buds at the top. This will allow ALL of the buds to dry evenly. This is also how I begin my cure. If you have enough buds to fill the bag past a quarter of the way, I reccomend using multiple bags. I will keep doing this until the stems are completely dry, but the buds themselves should not be so dry that they are falling apart. you should still be able to squeeze them without them crumbeling.

Step 3.) The Cure
Jar 'em up! Do not pack them tight. they should be dry now, but may have a bit of moisture, especially if you were not paitient. If they seemed to get a little moist again leave the top off. If they do not seem to be to be getting moist again, Great! lock that lid down and leave be. The longer you leave them sealed the stronger the oder seems to be. You can check 'em daily to steal a little nug or two, but as long as they do not seem to be getting moist again leave that lid locked down to help seal in that flavor, taste and smell. A week or two later (depending on how paitient you are) the flavor and smell should be locked in tight to your buds.

I have always fornd that if I am smelling clorophyl in the jar, they went in too early and i'll generally put them back in the bag, but maybe you know better. But I will tell you one thing. If your bud smells and tastes fresh (green), I don't care what the genetics are, they aren't headies, and that is the idea behind good homegrown. To be the Opus 1 of buds. The fine wine, not the crummy 6 dollar a bottle of wine at Kroger. Blueberries that taste like cut grass arent't worth the months that they took to grow.

To sum this novel up: BE FRICKIN PATIENT. It will make all of the difference in the world. Your jars should not smell like clorophy. This is the same smell you get in a compost pile that is starting to degrade and decompose.

Never did the bag method they went stright into jars after being dry.. My problem is the chemicals in the buds are taking way to long to leave, resulting in the grassy taste. They have been curing for long enough to taste good.. So i did something really wrong its been a month from cut. They look beautiful tho..

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did you flush properly before you chopped and did you let your soil dry up before chopping? these could all be issue's with why the hay smell and all the chemicals wont come out of your buds.