Smell

Long time lurker, first post.

Just completed my first grow. Outdoors, harvested just in time before the winter hits in the northeast. I hung my plants for a week, then I did a really good trim, knocking off a lot of leaf, leaving me with really clean nice buds. I have everything jarred up and have been burping twice a day at least & emptying the jars laying the buds out for at least an hour a day.

The buds are still very fresh that's why I have been making sure they get plenty of air daily. I've read a lot of info on people saying their buds smellike like hay. Mine do not but they really don't smell at all. If I break a bud up then I get that sweet stinky smell that we all love.

So my question is this, I feel I'm still early in the curing process, seems like I have a ways to go before I have a finished product, as I move through the curing process will the buds gain that pleasant smell I'm looking for? Any replysuggestions would be greatly appreciated.

For me, stick your hygrometer in the glass jar for 1 hour to test the humidity, Curing takes place at 65% rh, down to 55%. Get it in the jars before 65% and you're risking mold

Sometimes it doesn't smell til u give it a little squeeze and that's ok just keep curing it and leaving it in the jar for a longer and longer period of time before u burp it then in a week or two u will have some good smoke! Try a piece see how it tastes

it will help, sometimes they start to reek when they get to the right moisture content, sometimes they don't. terpenes are oils, if the plant doesn't have enough of them to start with, no amount of curing is going to make more, but if the plant does have enough, the drying and curing process will break them free of water and they'll start to reek

Curing can cause an enhanced aroma due to terpenes breaking down into terpenoids via decarboxylation.

i thought decarb involved heat? this just seems like evaporation to me

nm, was just reading. the decarbing from curing is a lot slower but still the same process

I cure mine pretty much like you do. No worries. You'll definitely know when you open the jar after a month or so.

Biggest learning lesson I have had in the last year has been control the room humidity while Curing. Absolutely crucial.

andlund0930 said:

Biggest learning lesson I have had in the last year has been control the room humidity while Curing. Absolutely crucial.

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If you're curing in sealed glass jars, the room's humidity will NOT affect curing. If you've started curing BEFORE the drying as completed and you have to leave them open and exposed to the air during the day, then I agree that room humidity makes a difference.