Off the chart stink!!??

undercovergrow

undercovergrow

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:confused: well, i hung my first plant whole without trimming and after four days, jarred it up and it stinks!!! it stinks so bad that i find the smell to be offensive. i really like the smell of great dank weed, so i have no clue what is going on! it's a clone, so i am familiar with how it should smell at this stage...though with the first plants i have a slight hay smell that gets better as they cure, especially when taken out of the jar for a bit. the smell is like even the potency has been increased and you can almost feel it still in the back of your nose even when you leave the room! since it is a smell thing, pictures won't help. the only thing i've done different is i knew what i was doing a bit more during this grow (with the clones) so actually fed it instead of letting it almost starve, and everything else is the same. is it supposed to smell like this at this stage?!
 
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Edit: the other thing that was different! this time, after i chopped her down, i let her sit in water for 24 hours drinking it up before i took her out and then hung her upside down. during the 24 hours she was just in the glass of water, you couldn't even tell she had been chopped.
 
Myles117

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undercovergrow said:
Edit: the other thing that was different! this time, after i chopped her down, i let her sit in water for 24 hours drinking it up before i took her out and then hung her upside down. during the 24 hours she was just in the glass of water, you couldn't even tell she had been chopped.
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the fuck? this isnt a christmas tree that you want to prolong the life of. why would you chop only to set the base in water?
 
undercovergrow

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hi myles. it was an experiment: it was like a "flush" for the plant, and i am a newb so i am just trying different things. i fail to see how it deserves a WTF.

for clarification: the house is SUPER dry so i was trying to make the plant not dry out so fast. the first plants i harvested, trimmed, and hung up to dry were ready to go to jars in 48 hours and showed RH of 67% & 64%. this was hanging for four days and i'm showing a RH of 63%. so my experiment was two-fold: trying to slow down that initial dry time with the 24-hours of water, and then a better cure/smell with hanging the plant whole.

and i'm a lady and do dislike the swearing. :-) some of the things you men say to each other on this site would make me cry and i know a lot of you are just teasing and it's the way you talk. but, don't make me cry!! :-) thanks for the help.
 
Tjingles

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Myles117 said:
the fuck? this isnt a christmas tree that you want to prolong the life of. why would you chop only to set the base in water?
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Im wondering the same thing. Extra nutes. Especially nitrogen will give that 'hay or fresh grass smell' but if its literally offensive I don't know. Maby a really big amount of nutes? Did you jar it up at all? Maybe the extra moisture has caused it to start to ferment in the jar
 
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a plant hung whole for 4 days shouldn't be dry yet...dried too quickly

or too much moisture to be putting in jars yet
 
undercovergrow

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the first plants were about starved. i'd say i was feeding this plant "medium" and i quit feeding her almost two weeks before she was chopped. the last week she only got plain H2O (the prior week i had accidentally given her water with camg+ in it)... her leaves were greener because i'd taken better care of her, and in the last week, she did start yellowing off and loosing leaves. she is so stinky, i don't want to even open the jar to burp it. she didn't give me but a half ounce i'd say (she was an experiment to see how much a small plant would give me) when dry by just eyeballing it.
 
undercovergrow

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yes, kindnug, i agree! that is why i am trying to experiment with how to resolve that issue before some of my non-bag seed girls finish. hubby has about had it with the expense of this hobby so it's not like i can go out and buy a dehumidifier because i think that would resolve the issue...so i'm just working with what i have.
 
undercovergrow

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keysareme said:
She may be full of moisture and nutrients. (?)
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i'm thinking the moisture part might be the correct answer...unlike the first two plants (the RH climbed quickly) this one is slowly taking it's time to get to the 63/64% RH and should probably have hung longer. i'm going to take it out of the jar, and put it in a brown paper bag for a while and see what that does to the stink.
it isn't a mold stink or a rotten stink, definitely not a hay smell! it is the strongest weed smell stank i've ever smelled, offensive to me and i feel an apology is owed to the non-smokers if this is what it smells like to them because normally i think it smells wonderful!! :-) i've got my fingers crossed it will be sweet smelling to me in a few days!!
 
vostok

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undercovergrow said:
:confused: well, i hung my first plant whole without trimming and after four days, jarred it up and it stinks!!! it stinks so bad that i find the smell to be offensive. i really like the smell of great dank weed, so i have no clue what is going on! it's a clone, so i am familiar with how it should smell at this stage...though with the first plants i have a slight hay smell that gets better as they cure, especially when taken out of the jar for a bit. the smell is like even the potency has been increased and you can almost feel it still in the back of your nose even when you leave the room! since it is a smell thing, pictures won't help. the only thing i've done different is i knew what i was doing a bit more during this grow (with the clones) so actually fed it instead of letting it almost starve, and everything else is the same. is it supposed to smell like this at this stage?!
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Trimming will be a hassle now, best to trim once the plant has been decapitated, so so much easier, the stink is a sign that you as the grower have done really well, as no smell with a plant means it ain't mature enough amongst other observations, you are smelling the terpines that will recede in time, avoid drying fast as will only make the smoke harsh on your throat, find a spare room, guest room or other at about 60f/21c and leave the buds on their stalks for the next 10 days or so, avoiding bright light ...perhaps with a window open, or if so bad leave strung up in the garage until the smell recedes ...?
 
Myles117

Myles117

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undercovergrow said:
hi myles. it was an experiment: it was like a "flush" for the plant, and i am a newb so i am just trying different things. i fail to see how it deserves a WTF.

for clarification: the house is SUPER dry so i was trying to make the plant not dry out so fast. the first plants i harvested, trimmed, and hung up to dry were ready to go to jars in 48 hours and showed RH of 67% & 64%. this was hanging for four days and i'm showing a RH of 63%. so my experiment was two-fold: trying to slow down that initial dry time with the 24-hours of water, and then a better cure/smell with hanging the plant whole.

and i'm a lady and do dislike the swearing. :-) some of the things you men say to each other on this site would make me cry and i know a lot of you are just teasing and it's the way you talk. but, don't make me cry!! :-) thanks for the help.
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ah i see. when i said "the fuck?" it was more of me scratching my head while it is tilted to one side pondering lol iv honestly never heard of anyone doing that before :)

the flush should be done at least a week before harvest. there should be no reason for a post chop soak.

if the place is super dry, you may want to consider hanging her in a closed off space where you can keep the humidity a bit higher to slow the overly aggressive dry rate. drying the plant whole while the buds are still connected to the main stem helps with that as well... a practice you already use i assume.

i would guess the smell is due to a combo of things. only way to truly find out would to change it up next harvest. maybe a wet trim or alter humidity o the dry area. i'v never had a plant smell so offensive that i did not enjoy it lol except the few time mold set in :(
 
undercovergrow

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thanks Myles! lol :-) okay, perhaps i can see that, haha! this is my first time hanging whole. my first two plants were trimmed before i hung them up. this morning, the incredible stank is replaced by a medium stink...so i wonder what was going on the first 24 hours with it!?! anyway, thanks everyone for listening. i'll give a smoke report on it after it's cured for a month. a smell report will be forthcoming in a week or so! :-)
 
undercovergrow

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i forgot about this post. a recent "like" brought me back to it... this was the best smoke ever!!! :bigjoint:once the "offensive" smell went away, the cure process took over and wow. needless to say it is just about gone. :-) in fact, i was getting some nugs out of the jar the other day and happened to put a large nug's stem in between my teeth to hold on to it while i jarred the rest back up and, of course, my lips touched it while i was doing that for a few seconds...it left a sweet taste on my lips! :weed: it has a wonderful pleasant smell in the jar and while smoking. i'm not sure if it was hanging it whole or my experiment on it--that has only taught me to only change one thing at a time from now on! :wink:
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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Dry your bud in its pot in a dark cool area with decent air flow..let it die slowly then chop and hang for a few days
 
Dunbar Santiago

Dunbar Santiago

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Tjingles said:
Im wondering the same thing. Extra nutes. Especially nitrogen will give that 'hay or fresh grass smell' but if its literally offensive I don't know. Maby a really big amount of nutes? Did you jar it up at all? Maybe the extra moisture has caused it to start to ferment in the jar
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No, not nitrogen. Chlorophyll will give the grass/hay smell from drying too fast and not having a chance to break down.. There aren't any nutrients in plant matter, thus you don't smoke nitrogen.
 
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