No Smell

So I just am about to chop a few Bubba Kush plants that came from clones a buddy gave me. His finished product was very smelly. As of a day or two before chop, my plants have very little odor. While this is a nice thing as far as the neighbors are concerned, I wonder why this is?

It is my first time doing aero (low pressure) and my buddy who I got the clones from grew mostly in soil and some in perlite. Is there something about aero that reduces odor? Does this mean that my plants are unhealthy or deficient in some way?

Could it be the difference in nutrients? I was using GH flora series at around 700 ppm for basically the entire thing. Might they pick up some smell during curing? Visually they look terrific, very crystaly. It's pretty bizarre that his would smell and mine wouldn't.

Try shaking a cola and then smelling the area. I doubt it's a nutrient issue or any real issue at all. Once you cure the flavor and odor of the plant will surface.

ya cure def helps taste and odor a ton.

My Jack Herer didn't have a hard odor either. I kept my temps below 80F, but if they got higher than say 90F , it reeked to high heaven. Touch (gently squeeze) a lower bud then smell your fingers. Should knock you over, or at least make you drool.............

I have found that organics helps allot to increase smell.

Jack Harer, that's interesting, my temps are always around 73-ish which is fairly moderate (mainly because I don't have a water chiller and I'm trying to keep rez temps down). I never thought about temperature as one of the variables. And yes when I touch a stem or a leaf and smell my finger, it is very pungent. I guess the aromatics aren't turning into gaseous form (perhaps because of temp) but they are present.

legallyflying, I've heard that as well, but I'm not really familiar with organics that are safe to use in aeroponics. Any recommendations? Is this what you use in aero? The nutes must be completely sediment free. I suppose I could buy a 1 or 2 micron screen and pour any old nutrient through it to filter out any debris.

My plants in organics don't smell hardly at all. You go using raw chicken crap or manures and it can get pretty pungent. Fish emulsion is out for indoor use at my house. But everything I grow is truly organic (Bunny Poo, worm castings, etc), and if I keep the temps down, there is hardly any odor in the room. To MY nose anyway, which is pretty used to the odor. When I grew in the house, nobody smelled it unless the temps crept up. I played hell at first learning how to keep them down.
I'm certain it's the temps that govern how pungent the aromatics smell. I've never grown Skunk, but I hear that no matter what, you'll smell it a mile against the wind.

odor can and will be greater during high temps. as soon as you dive into the chop down its going to reek!!

I hope so hellraizer I did a little experiment and cut one small bud off and put it in a sealed mason jar for a few hours in my warm car (high 70's). When I opened it and stuck my nose in it, I got a strong pungent whiff of fragrance....Ah! Interestingly, when I removed the bud and smelled it directly, it didn't seem to have much of an odor. This whole thing kind of amuses me. But I guess it turns out that lower temps is s good way to control odor. I'll have to see if the buds themselves retain their smell after they've been dried and cured.

I wonder what exactly those aromatic compounds are that give weed it's distinct smell? I used to think it was the THC itself that you were smelling but I'm not sure that's the case. Possibly some other aromatic cannabinoid?

My hypothesis is that most of these aromatics are being bound up either in the resin glands or in leaves and buds. When the temperature gets high enough, it must cause the pores to open or the resin to release these compounds into the air. I suppose that during curing, most of the aromatics having no where to go being trapped in the sealed jar, alight on, and adhere to, the surface of the buds, causing them to smell that way permanently. Does this hypothesis sound correct?

curing it will bring out the best of it

I grew some blue mystic just because it was a low odor plant,and it was until I cut them down and then it really stunk up the house,I had a candy kush clone given to me and I had it growing on a balcony and it really stunk it was growing in soil,I cloned off of it and have them flowering now and there is very little smell at all,I think theres a direct link to why our plants dont stink in hydro just dont know what it is,its not a bad thing at all as long as the smoke is good and it is but there has to be some science behind al this maybe someone else knows and will explain it

Snocat you hit the nail on the head. I used to grow outdoors for years. That was like a decade ago. Just started doing the hydro thing last year, I have never ever come close to producing the same smell in my plants. Some of my bud goes to market and smell is very important. Its kind of funny actually. All the so called "connesiuers" and bud experts just look at a bag..even when I say "smoke some". My endless sky smelled like nothing. NOTHING. smelled like dust. But jesus did it ring your clock when you smoked some.

I have been searching for the smelly hydro. From my research, organic compost and worm casings tea etc will help allot. My buddy just grew the stinkiest headband ever in soiless hydro with earth worm casings.

i just finished off a run of sour diesel that reeked from week 3, n i kept them cold the whole time. cant imagine what it would smell like if they were hot. before that was GDP that hardley smelled at all till chop. im running headband this run n dont know what to expect. running botanicare the whole time so its got to be strain oriented jmo

There IS good headband put there. I have smelled and smoked it and saw it in flower. I popped 7 fem seeds and they all produce very big larfy buds. To the trash can with that genetic line.

I just decided to go back to old school good producer, very Stoney, not picky...ak-47.

And of course I bought some heavy duty fruity seeds (regular)

I could smell the sour diesel before the car even stopped at my boys basement grow. The whole block could smell it easy.

use a sweetener. my assistant can always tell when i hit it with that stuff because a day or two later it just reaks in the room

what brand do you use if you dont mind me asking,some will say molasas but that only works with organics,and when I first started I put some in my dwc like some nit whit said to and all it did was foam up in the res and make a mess and now I am leary on useing anything with sugars in them because I dont want another mess in my res,I know theres lots to choose from but what works and wont foam up on me thanks

Assuming one is already dealing with an aromatic strain, properly grown herb, regardless of medium, will reek. A less than perfect grow and/or improper drying (too quick) or curing will minimize the odor. A product that I've found that increases odor is Floralicious Plus from GH. I believe it's sea kelp, humics and fulvic acids but it see maybe a 20% increase in odor? In regards to the idea that hydro is less aromatic than other mediums/methods, that's poppycock . I would point to over-feeding as the culprit there.