Buds smell like tea .
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Dboybudz
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As long as your drying in good temp around 60 and have air around them if pre trim and hang dry. Nothing wrong with tea smell every strain has unique fragrance fruit, skunky,candy like. Try to lightly press a small bud with fingers and see how smells. That and once dried and put in jar might change smell to.
Thank you for the reply mate. I'm worrying because i dont like that smell at all , to be honest it smells like grass / tea but nothing like any kind of bud i smoked in the past .
I'm just hoping to change this smell at all after the curing process .
Have you ever smoked freshly harvested bud ? If yes, was it taste like a cured one at all ?
Dboybudz
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Yea all the time if you dry it with fans blowing on them they dry to fast and get that hay smell. Usually once you chop and put in something should get some good smell. After about 7-10 days it's smokeable and get flavor. We just chopped cherry ak-47 that dried a little fast and smelled little hay. But I put in mason jar and smells and tastes great. Cured gives smother on lungs and fragrance better, just a month cure. Freshly harvest tastes good but will taste better after short cure.
Dboybudz
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What do you mean?
Dboybudz
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Not dry at all and put in jars will mold within a day. If it smells hay could be to cold like barn and no humidity also dries them to quickly I go thru this because I got dry in barn.
No the taste and smell improves with a cure fresh bud smokes like meh not great you do get some strains that taste better earlier than others but there exceptions to the general rule cos u need time for the chlorophyl to break down and get eaten by bacteria etc thats what turns it into tasty cannabis however you dry too fast or your rooms too hot you can lock in that grassy nasty taste not what you want with drying/curing low and slows better also if you find that its drying to quick try leaving more leaves on that should help slow it down a tad dry trim instead next time maybe as for tea terps in weed that are just there and not cos you messed it up i have came across a pheno in kc36 like this when the rest were fruity/floral kinda stuff so u do get it sometimes regardless but thats different from the grassy taste of course
I got some plants running and i can tell that they are ready to harvest within 2-3 weeks (same strain) .
Is it possible that something went wrong in the growing process or is this a drying / curing problem only?
Sorry for all these questions i'm new, i start to grow with only the basic knowledge , i accept the fact to mess up with something but i want to be better while im growing.
Is it possible that something went wrong in the growing process or is this a drying / curing problem only?
Sorry for all these questions i'm new, i start to grow with only the basic knowledge , i accept the fact to mess up with something but i want to be better while im growing.
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No one can tell you if you did something wrong until you tell us what the temp and humidity is in your dry room and how long you're drying for.
It's not unusual for a hay smell, especially if you did a wet trim, when drying. What do lawn cuttings smell like when you run a mower over the grass? It smells like hay. It's the chlorophyll in the plant breaking down.
Everytimefoo
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Dry them so the stems bend but make a slight snap or crack sound. Once they are dry enough put all the buds In an airtight jar (mason is my fave.) only fill the jar up 3/4 max and open them two times a day for an hour. The grass/leaf smell will go away that is just chloraphyl dissipating out of the buds, and goes away with curing and the dissolution of left over chloraphyl.
Jonesfamily7715
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I have one that was completely odorless I swear it's a frosty mofucker too? After some cure the citrus smells are coming thru though. Lemme find my camera this shit looks amazing
Jonesfamily7715
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Citridelic sunset ethos
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Everytimefoo
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Even this smelled like hay for 4-5 days after drying and jarring. Lol now it smells like mouth watering blueberry lemon butter candy.
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Not Wiz Khalifa
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I just harvested gazzurple and gelato33 last month and had a similar issue with one of my plants. Stupid sticky buds but hardly any smell coming from it. I decided that was from chopping it down a few days too soon. Have had them sitting in jars now for a few weeks and they smell amazing. Point is i think you couldve harvested a little too early by a few days
Everytimefoo
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No its simply chlorapyl breakdown…
Thundercat
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Harvesting early can defintely impact the final smell.
It can easily prevent the plant from reaching its full potential terpene, flavinoid, and cannabinoid levels in the first place.
But the bigger issue is that if you harvest to early then the buds wont have reached full density. That makes it very easy to dry them too fast. In which case the chlorophyl won't have the proper chance to break down and the smell to disipate.
It can easily prevent the plant from reaching its full potential terpene, flavinoid, and cannabinoid levels in the first place.
But the bigger issue is that if you harvest to early then the buds wont have reached full density. That makes it very easy to dry them too fast. In which case the chlorophyl won't have the proper chance to break down and the smell to disipate.
Thundercat
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Its also very plausible that your buds will turn out smelling just fine in the end. You said they had only been drying for 3 days. They aren't going to smell great at that point for almost anyone that's only in the beginning/middle of the dry for most people.
Everytimefoo
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Yeah haha there has been a couple of times i was like…. Wth did i grow this sucks! But then the cure kicks in.
