cannafarmer420 said:

Correct it is the chlorophyll burning up, which is vital to smooth smoke. Sometimes when you let it cure properly it will bring terps back out

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Ninjadogma said:

My assumptions may be wrong but they are that chlorophyll is mostly based in a water environment and terpenes are mostly based in an oil environment. So as we dry our weed, the chlorophyll smells that dominate the drying room are the gases from the chlorophyll decomposing. Once it is drier, the chlorophyll smell dissipates with the loss of water and the terpene smells increase as they begin to lose the water from the resin at a much slower rate... Until there isn't much smell at all, which can happen when you overdry your weed or it's been sitting in the jar to long.

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Thatoneguyyouknow_ said:

you are correct, but you cn also dry cannabis too fast for the chlorophyl to break down properly.

In this instance leaving your cannabis in jar at about 60% for several days before burping will remove alot of the harshness and lung phlegm from cannabis dried to fast. Itll also make the ash whiter after burn. It will however also equally break down a lot of the more volatile terps to bring it back up once its dried too fast.


Callulose also take a good while to break down enough to help the flower burn at a lower temperature. Much longer the chlorophyl. And it will never actually fully break down inside a jar either. That along side decarb processes is what makes cured weed perceivably more potent once its been curing for several months.. Lower burn temp thanks to partially decomposed cellulose, and partially decarbed thc-a.


If anyone has wondered why outdoor smoke tends to hit a lot harder a lot sooner, its because chlorphyl, cellulose, are both breaking down at a higher rate naturally from exposure once harvested, and a good % of that thc-a has also broken down into delta 9 from exposure. All while the plant is still alive and growing. Usually fire outdoor buds smoke in a handful of weeks as nicely as indoor flowers a few months into cure. Even if once cured the indoor buds are nicer to smoke on in general post full cure.

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Organic13 said:

My first real outdoor grow this year. I chopped a plant early. Did a bud wash. Hung for 7 days, 68⁰ and between 50-60% humidity. Smelled like hay for awhile. They've been in jars for 2 days now. They smell absolutely dank. The smoke THC is low though because there were still lots of clear trichs when cut. I call it pretendica. Wanted to let you know if you know your trichs were on point, your smoke should eventually smell like dank cannabis. If you aren't getting that after a year or two after harvesting, something isn't going right somewhere. Are you using hygrometer in dry tent and the jars? I did a wet trim and hung branches, not entire plant.

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SlyBoy420 said:

The first couple years I tried growing I didn’t look much into the processes. I dried outside in a shed with a fan on everything. Next inside without trying to control the environment. This year is the first I attempted investing in knowledge and equipment. I’m drying in a 4x4 tent hooked up at ac with two small dehumidifiers allowing me to run normally what must people are saying 60-65 rh temp 60-65 I check tricks with a microscope that links to my phone I got this year so far what I’ve taken down looked milky with hints of amber and I bought meters to put in the jars. So far what I’ve harvested has been curing a lil over a week with rh between 63-67 depending on the jar. I realize it takes weeks to months too cure. It’s just hard to believe I could smells these plants from forty yards away a now nothing really. If I squeeze the buds I can smell slot more hopefully with time it comes back somewhat

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SlyBoy420 said:

The first couple years I tried growing I didn’t look much into the processes. I dried outside in a shed with a fan on everything. Next inside without trying to control the environment. This year is the first I attempted investing in knowledge and equipment. I’m drying in a 4x4 tent hooked up at ac with two small dehumidifiers allowing me to run normally what must people are saying 60-65 rh temp 60-65 I check tricks with a microscope that links to my phone I got this year so far what I’ve taken down looked milky with hints of amber and I bought meters to put in the jars. So far what I’ve harvested has been curing a lil over a week with rh between 63-67 depending on the jar. I realize it takes weeks to months too cure. It’s just hard to believe I could smells these plants from forty yards away a now nothing really. If I squeeze the buds I can smell slot more hopefully with time it comes back somewhat

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Thatoneguyyouknow_ said:

you are correct, but you cn also dry cannabis too fast for the chlorophyl to break down properly.

In this instance leaving your cannabis in jar at about 60% for several days before burping will remove alot of the harshness and lung phlegm from cannabis dried to fast. Itll also make the ash whiter after burn. It will however also equally break down a lot of the more volatile terps to bring it back up once its dried too fast.


Callulose also take a good while to break down enough to help the flower burn at a lower temperature. Much longer the chlorophyl. And it will never actually fully break down inside a jar either. That along side decarb processes is what makes cured weed perceivably more potent once its been curing for several months.. Lower burn temp thanks to partially decomposed cellulose, and partially decarbed thc-a.


If anyone has wondered why outdoor smoke tends to hit a lot harder a lot sooner, its because chlorphyl, cellulose, are both breaking down at a higher rate naturally from exposure once harvested, and a good % of that thc-a has also broken down into delta 9 from exposure. All while the plant is still alive and growing. Usually fire outdoor buds smoke in a handful of weeks as nicely as indoor flowers a few months into cure. Even if once cured the indoor buds are nicer to smoke on in general post full cure.

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ParaffinMuffin said:

Nah. Chlorophyll is 100% irrelevant. Smells minty when isolated.

Invest in knowledge. If you know what causes plant smells, it will help you produce tor avoid those smells.

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If you believe the misinfo, you'll end up spraying your weed with fake terps like lots of growers are doing (they call it thca hemp lol).


You can vape literally any water soluble or gaseous substance into a room of hanging bud and observe the results. Which have you tried? A bunch of store bought essential oil terps? Not the way. Way off course. Plants should be making weed flavor though lipoxygenase activity after harvest, not making gross essential oil terpenes before harvest and attempting to preserve them.

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Ninjadogma said:

Here's my hack for what to do when you do your drying outside and Mother Nature decides to deliver Santa Ana conditions on you right in the middle of your dry with single digit humidity levels threatening your buds.

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Ninjadogma said:

If I ever have a big enough harvest I'd like to try using a box for the pre-curing sweat. I finish every dry with a day or two in a bag before the jar but I try and limit their contact time with wood pulp. I think at some point we've all had pizza that tasted like cardboard because the pizza boxes were allowed to get moist and nobody wants to smoke weed that smells like a lunch bag. I like your setup because the buds hang freely without touching the cardboard. It just provides a nice "microclimate."

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RealFarmer said:

If a strain loses smell I never run it again. Genetics have a lot to do with it also. I have grown strains that have dried under all types of conditions that never lost smell, even when speed dried. I have noticed underfed plants don't smell as much also.

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amneziaHaze said:

anything under 58% and it will all smell like hay you hve to keep it at 60-65% for best results

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