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ganja not smelling after drying.

ak90

ak90

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Ive just grew out some chocolope and it was stinkin all through the final stages of flower. I chopped it up and dried it in my tent with just the extractor fan on for 7 days and ive just checked it and it dont smell as it did before i chopped it. My grow before this was the same and i cant put my finger on why. Can anyone help me out cheers.
 
DoctaGreen

DoctaGreen

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Pop them in paper bags for a couple of days, then into glass jars. Open these jars for 10 minutes everyday, some say for upto 3 months for a perfect cure, but i say 2-4 weeks :-)
 
ak90

ak90

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and this will make it smell pukka? it was stanky stank before chop and then over the week of drying it just went...
 
canefan

canefan

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The cure is the trick to get your good smell back, you are still pretty green inside your buds right now you haven't lost all of your chloraphyll yet. Patience is the key here for the best results.
 
ak90

ak90

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Okay so put it all in jars? And open them for 10 mins a day? For ariund 2-4 weeks?
 
Fazer1rlg

Fazer1rlg

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Paper bags damage trichromes especially if moist still. I have never used paper bags and my shit is stank every time. But it could also be genetics.
 
ak90

ak90

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I grew out chocolope. Got 16 n half oz off 2 plants under a 600w hps. Using coco coir with sensigrow nutes. My mate grew the same strain without a cure and his was stinkin. But mine smells kinda fresh like a grassy smell.. Whn i chopped it it was a fruity smell.. Now its gone.
 
ghb

ghb

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you may be drying too fast.

you need to get a thermo-hygrometer that reads max/min. place that in with the buds when drying and check regularly, if the humidity is lower than 50% that could be the issue.

ideally i like to dry at 55-60% humidity and 60-70 farenheit, it willl usually take a week in these conditions, then remove all stems and jar for a couple weeks opening for a short period to breathe.

if the humidity is too low the plants will dry faster than they should on the outside and not properly inside. the majority of the terpenoids (flavour and smell) are water based and will evaporate if exposed to low humidity.

if you had it so your fan comes on for 15 mins every few hours i think that would be better than having it on constantly.
 
A

althor

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Put it in jars for 30 days and the smell should return.. Not 4 days, not 8 days, not 18 days, but 30 days.
 
hbbum

hbbum

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Dont burp (open the jar for 10 minutes) every day for a month, only do this at first, until your RH stabilizes, after that leave it alone for the rest of the cure. I like to use the Boveda 62% packs, since then I do not ever have to burp. I just dry properly and then jar them with the packs and after 2-3 weeks they are good to go.

edit, nothing wrong with letting them go an entire 30 days either, but I have found with the Boveda packs they tend to be fine in 2-3 weeks.
 
thenotsoesoteric

thenotsoesoteric

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Did you chop the plants down a little early, or was the temps above 88-90*F ? Did you run a strong nute solution or not give a proper two weeks for flush? All this things will cause your bud to smell/taste like hay or grass. If all these things were on point then I would assume that you've got a riddle on your hands.

PS, My experience is if your bud smells or tasted bad or weak from the get, it really isn't gonna get much better with a cure. I've had plenty of wack pheno bud that I've tried every possible way to cure them, but crap is crap. I've had buds I did not flush because mold set in. I cured them trying to get the grape out of the grape god and G.skunk. After three months it was better but I still could taste the fertie.
You can't polish a turd.
Not saying that your bud is less than top notch, but I'm saying that if your not happy with it now, most likely you still will be disappointed after cure. At least I always am.

PSS. Your avatar looks just like my retard pheno of Cannventures purple berry.
 
Bigby

Bigby

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Make sure the stems still have some bend in them when you start the curing process, if they snap and you can hear the snap it is too late. Brown paper bags are better at bringing out smell than glass jars. Always worth moving into jars at some point though.

The level of stinkiness depends a lot on the strain and pheno. That's a good strain, and the pheno sounds good due to you reporting high levels of stink in flowering. Therefore patience will reward you with stinky smelling weed. In my experience some inferior strains/phenos won't develop the smell even with a cure - but you can tell that in growing, and that isn't the case here.

Always remember that street high grade will almost never get looked after as well as a grower looks after his own buds. When buds are crushed, broken, and rubbed against each other they exude a whole heap more smell, but also degrade quicker. Your buds may not smell as strong as the best street stuff straight out the bag, but I bet it's potency is stronger, and I bet it still stinks just as strong straight out of a grinder and when it is burnt.

Be Ez! :-)
 
HankDank

HankDank

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I highly suggest you read this.
  • Yup, people make things harder then they really are sometimes... even I myself am guilty of this. It happens! But.. what I have done for everyone.. is broken down the drying and curing process.. to where even the NOOBS can understand how to properly dry.. and cure their pride and loved harvest.

    Alright, as for drying... this is probably the easy part compared to the curing process.. but again.. even curing isn't that difficult.

    On the day of your harvest... you need to do the following: Hang your buds up.. with some type of string/thread or even fishing line will work. Hang them up.. and ONLY let them dry.. until ONLY the outer sides of the buds feel dry.. AND.. the stem BENDS (might even crack some and thats okay) but doesn't BREAK. (if the stem breaks in two when bent.. you have "over dried" the buds.. or in other words.. you have let out too much if not all of the buds moisture content.. and its pretty much too late now.. it can be fixed.. but its a pain in the ass.. and no matter if it gets fixed or not.. the final product will NOT taste/smell/smoke like it would have if done properly.)

    You don't want to wait until the stem breaks. Why? well, because by this time.. you have waited too long.. and the buds water content has dropped way to low in percentage by this time (possible to 0%). When air drying.. you want to wait until the outer part of the bud feels dry.. and the stem bends.. but doesn't break. Then you can start your curing.

    Once the outer side of the buds are dry.. and the stems BEND but doesn't BREAK into two pieces.. this is the optimal time to start the "curing process".

    Now, let me explain some things to everyone.

    you need to be careful with what information you chose to read and follow. Why? Because the internet is filled with all kinds of information.. good and bad.. not only good and bad.. but some of it is correct.. but.. some of it is also incorrect. In fact, 70% of the material you read on the internet about growing cannabis.. is actually incorrect. Why so much incorrect info? Well, its sad to say.. but 70% of the information (articles) you read about growing cannabis.. is incorrect because its mostly written by young immature teenagers that "think" they know it all.. but in fact they don't know what they're talking about. It's true! If you want some correct and GOOD information on growing.. check out hightimes magazine or just simply go and buy yourself a few books on growing... that way you know the information is at least %99 if not %100 correct because its generally written by experts (people that actually KNOW what the hell they're talking about).


    The curing process runs on the same principles as your plants light cycles. You cure in cycles.. once the outer edges of the bud is dry.. and the stem bends but doesn't break.. and you have put your buds into your jars and have the lids on.. wait 12 hours until you open the lids of the jars. During this 12 hours.. the moisture from inside the middle of the buds has slowly made its way (evaporated) out of the bud.. but has no way to escape because the lids are still on the jars thus trapping in all that moisture. The evaporating moisture also makes a rise in the humidity inside the jars.. and since its still trapped inside the jars.. it rehydrates the buds to a certain point. Finally, after the first 12 hours of having the lids on.. take the lids off. The buds should feel a little damp again (but not too wet.. if they feel like a fresh harvested bud.. then you need to air dry them for a few more days.. also if they didn't re-hydrate then you've let them air dry too long.) After inspecting the buds to make sure they got a little re-hydrated from being in the jar for 12 hours.. just leave the lid(s) off of your jar(s) for a good 2 to 4 hours to let the fresh moisture on the buds evaporate.. then put the lids back on.. and repeat the cycle. See how its kinda like the light cycle? Like that one would be 12hrs/2hrs or 12hrs/4hrs. See how that works now?

    Each time you put the lid on.. the humidity inside the jar(s) will slowly evaporate the moisture from inside the middle of the bud as well as the stem thats inside the middle of the bud... thus raising the humidity level inside the jar like I said before... then each time you take the lid off.. your letting that new evaporated moisture from the middle of the bud.. and the stem thats in the middle of the bud.. evaporate. So, see.. each cycle of lid on/lid off which is one complete cycle.. your taking out the moisture bit by bit.. from inside the middle of the bud (and the stem thats inside the middle of the bud).

    Now.. you don't want to just keep on repeating cycles until the buds are 100% dry. You want to leave around 10% to 15% water content inside the middle of the buds.. once they get to around that level of water content.. you can then put them back into their jar(s) and store them without having to worry about "burping" the jars. Also, at this point.. the buds are not only smokable.. but they will smell and taste like they should!

    There ya go.. hopefully I have broken this down so that the ones that don't understand.. now understand.
    (if you still don't get it, you probably never will.. and IMO.. you should change professions... because growing isn't for you)

    peace..

    written and edited by: ganjaluvr 10/01/2010​




 
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