1st timer curing blues

I don't know what you might have done maybe if you explain how you fed and what type of system you are using it would help. If leaves started turning yellow and looking like drying up sounds like you over fed them big time.

They sound over fertilized and you want to make sure the stems snap when you bend them thats when its dry enough to contain in jar or whatever also you want to open from time to time to allow it to off gas...

Ya man, you should open the jars atleast once a day twice if u can and air it out. I even heard of taking every bud out and refilling the jar to sort of air it out. If your getting annoyed with curing maybe try drying with decissant to get them bone crispy, the smoke is good.

Hey all I harvested my junk a week ago. Just wondering if its supposed to stink like skunkey, sour, naturey shit. The smell is really far removed from the smell of ready to smoke bud, exept when you go up close and sniff. HOW COME NO ONE WARNED ME HOW BAD THIS WOULD STINK!

sounds like the smell may due to both an early cut AND lack of flush. Your smell MAY never come back, but, maybe its just slow.

What do you mean by drying out and looking old by 45 days? Sounds to me like you may have seen some bronzing and cut thinking it was harvest?

1. maybe just had a dryer 'look' to the plants? My first bagseed grow the buds had a very moist look and feel to them, my blackjacks are the opposite, in fact almost dry looking and feeling, and quite bronzed on lower buds. BUT they are still not ready! So i would recommend not doing that early chop next time =D
2. It may taste, smell, and smoke like shit, but if it gets you high, fuck id smoke it.... in fact my bagseed grow came out like that, even with some mold. trimmed off the bad stuff, smoked that shit up!
3. iam not too sure but maybe its not too late for a water cure? i mean i dont know if it will have the same effect as if you started your cure with it, might need some pros to chime in on that one.

Best of luck!

Hey Bubba, I have the same problem. If you don't mind, I am going to hang around here and see what kind of other answers you might get O.K? I feel I should not start another thread on the same subject.

I was given some buds from a friend, so I do not really know how they were grown. I do know they are sativas grown outdoors.

I hung them in a dark closet in my air conditioned house for a week, put them in a brown paper bag for four days, everything was going fine until I put them in a jar.

About 5 hours later I opened the jar to let them breathe a little and wholy shit! I really connot describe the smell. I am going to say that it smells like--- old, soured, days old, brewed tea with the bags still left in the pitcher.

Did not mean to hijack your thread Bubba. Just hoping you might get some more answers.
Peace and Regards Man.

like an acrid smell, maybe ammonia like?

yeh, SH I believe it might be an ammonia smell. Is that bad? ha