Does it smell like hay because i did it like so and so...

My bud is curing, its on about its 8th day of curing and it still smells like hay. At first i was worried but i think i have a hypothesis as to why and was hoping someone could tell me if i may be right. Heres what i did: i had to harvest my plant early because of a small botrytis problem. I wanted to conserve as much bud as i could before the mold spread any further so i harvested it. I fertilized it maybe a day or two before i harvested it. Is that why my bud smells wierd? something about not flushing it with water first? or chlorophyll mubo-jumbo type stuff? Its not like the plant was harvested way too early; it had quite a lot of moderately ripened buds, but it probably could've gone another week or a week and a half. It should still do the job right? just maybe a bit harsh or bad taste?

Thanks for any responses

How long did yoy dry it for before you started your cure? How early did you chop her?

i chopped her about a week to a week and a half too early. Dried until dry enough on the outside.

"dry enough" prob means too dry. they should just barely start to be crispy on the outside imo and they should be jarred, then opened the next day for at least 6 hrs, then slowly cutting down on open time....

no it was just dry on the outside. I got it in a glass mason jar. open it for about 1 minute twice a day.

How long to dry though?

Is it wet inside the jar? if not try a little flavor curing, i believe theres already a thread or if you want try water curing it takes about a week. Either method will improve the taste of your bud

dried too fast. cut too early.

Like hay? I've even seen really bad grows have decent smelling product. I'd say it's probably bad genetics or cut WAY too early.

cutting early can lead to the hay/grassy smell and not the good danky smells of each particular strain? i know my la con/og at 6 weeks stinks like the og smell, and my purple diesel isnt much but my master shaman kush is got the sweet kush smell. hope they cure smellin that way.

pthree said:

cutting early can lead to the hay/grassy smell and not the good danky smells of each particular strain? i know my la con/og at 6 weeks stinks like the og smell, and my purple diesel isnt much but my master shaman kush is got the sweet kush smell. hope they cure smellin that way.

Click to expand...

As long as you wait and cut them when they are ready, then dry and cure properly you won't have a problem. All the time you spent caring and nurturing them means nothing if the last steps are done wrong.