Weird taste to my auto nlx from royal queen

Dear fellow growers and connoiseurs,

I've been googling a lot about what makes a bud taste bad, but I could still need some help and advice in what I possibly did wrong:

at the beginning of july I started myself a little grow, one of the recently harvested plants (nlx autoflower from royal queen) tastes kinda awful when inhaled. But smells good when you lift a bud out of the jar. I've flushed the coco coir medium of the plant for about 8 days, the ashes are completly white.The buds have been dried till they were gently crispy while the stems weren't fully snappable, been hangdrying them upside down for 5-6 days. At this point the buds have been jarred for about a week and burped very generously for a prolonged period daily. I have to say the taste is getting less harsh over time whill curing, but it is still not very pleasant to continue smoking the rest of all the buds. My personal nightmare.

The plant might have been harvested a week too early, since I had a invasion of botrytis in my growtent. The basis of this problem has been solved and won't reoccure in future present. All the affected material was removed and am very worried about the plant material might be containing mold. I have checked the buds many times under my pocket microscope and it seems alright, when compared to buds of another harvested plant that tastes 'normal' and didn't have the botrytis.

To continue on the taste of the buds, it's like they taste how the harvested plant smells like the first few days when you dry them, you can get a scent of pure chlorophyll or whatever it is, that gives it a very earthy smell to it. I have encountered the same taste with buds a friend of mine grew, but his tasted even worse. This plant might not have been properly flushed but was definitly ready to harvest. So what is going on? I've read many forumposts about this, searched a lot on the internet, but nowhere found a reason why it's this specific goddamn horrible smell and taste.

So in general these are the given explanations for a 'hay' smell and taste, however I wouldn't describe it that way.

too fast drying, too much drying, not flushing and harvesting too early.

Have you grown this strain before?

I do not have grown this strain before, but there is still a second plant finishing in my growtent. But I guess I found out what I might did wrong. I've emptied the jar in my drying rack, let it dry a bit more and that foulish taste seems to be gone. Although seemed of it while I smoked one with friends last night, I wanted to see if I'm the only person that finds this scent horrible. One friend of mine even thought it was OG kush, lulz, that made me a bit proud. Anyway the ganja is back in the jar and I'll continue burping, to a point I might really like the taste, haha.

Not to bash, but autos for me have always had an off taste. Kind of a burnt plastic type of deal.
I'm going to try some of the higher dollar ones just to give em a decent chance but so far, its a no go.

The next strain I'll be testing out is sour diezel auto from dinafem, they claim to have close to 20% thc in their auto's, so why not. Am currently underexperienced to start a regular grow yet, still learning as it goes.

Origin and range[edit]
Cannabis ruderalis was first scientifically identified in 1924 in southern Siberia, although it also grows wild in other areas of Russia.[4] The Russian botanist, Janischewski, was studying wild Cannabis in the Volga River system and realized he had come upon a third species.[8] C. ruderalis is a hardier variety grown in the northern Himalayas and southern states of the former Soviet Union, characterized by a more sparse, "weedy" growth.[7]

Similar C. ruderalis populations can be found in most of the areas where hemp cultivation was once prevalent. The most notable region in North America is the midwestern United States, though populations occur sporadically throughout the United States and Canada.[9] Large wild C. ruderalis populations are also found in central and eastern Europe, most of them in Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia and adjacent countries. Without human selection, these plants have lost many of the traits they were originally selected for, and have acclimated to their environment.[7]

Cultivation[edit]
Seeds of C. ruderalis were brought to Amsterdam in the early 1980s in order to enhance the breeding program of the Seed Bank.[9]

Cannabis ruderalis has a lower THC content than either C. sativa or C. indica, so it is rarely grown for recreational use and the shorter stature of C. ruderalis limits its application for hemp production. Cannabis ruderalis strains are high in the cannabіnoid cannabidiol, so they are grown by some medical marijuana users.[citation needed]

However, C. ruderalis' early, plant-age triggered "autoflowering" characteristic (which offers some agricultural advantages over the photoperiodic flowering varieties) as well as its reputed resistance to insect and disease pressures makes it attractive to plant breeders.[10] C. indica strains are frequently cross-bred with C. ruderalis to produce autoflowering plants with high THC content, improved hardiness and reduced height.[11] One strain, identified in 1960, is Cannabis x intersita Sojak which is a cross between C. sativa and C. ruderalis.[3] Attempts to produce a Cannabis strain with a shorter growing season are another application of cultivating C. ruderalis.[7] C. ruderalis when crossed with sativa and indica strains produces a plant which flowers automatically and is fully mature in 10 weeks.[12]

Use in auto-flowering cannabis strains[edit]
Because C. ruderalis transitions from the vegetative stage to the flowering stage with age, as opposed to the light cycle required with photoperiod strains, it is bred with other household sativa and indica strains of cannabis to create "Auto-flowering cannabis strains".[13] These strains are favorable for cultivaters because they exhibit the hardiness of ruderalis plants while still maintaining the medicinal effects of sativa and indica strains.[14] The Auto-flowering trait is extremely beneficial because it allows for multiple harvests in one outdoor growing season without the use of light deprivation techniques necessary for multiple harvest of photo-period strains. As a result of ruderalis genetics, auto-flowering plants typically have much higher CBD levels than photo-period cannabis.

Its not the lack of flush. Flush does nothing for taste.

Did you use any kind of spray on it?

No, I did not use any spray. Thanks y'all for the interest and replies in this thread! Maybe as some of you suggest I should move on to regulars soon. Only real problem I see with them is their size, and not being able to judge when to make the flip and growing them too big as a result, but it will be definitly better than autoflowers.

Well guess someone was a little lazy, went a few pages back in this subforum and found the right thread with plenty of documentation and everything, little stupid of me!