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What was your drying process?Jarred my buds starting two weeks ago, now they have odd smell. Not the mold but not skunk ..so having dried a few oz . And just jarred in mason jars I am debating just putting them in baggies....being a noob ...I just don’t now what the frick to do......help please..northern lights and big bug xl are the strains I grew and harvested and dried......help please
Thx for all the info so far
Happy growing
Hung and dried took 8 days ...small airy budsWhat was your drying process?
Maybe a little..but mostly the buds I just put in jars smelled grassy but You. Crush the bud a bit it smells good.yes in jars and burped , no humidity , or very low.can I fix it?thxThen just put in jars and sealed? Did you use hygrometers? Did you burp them?
Smells kinda like vinager?
Mine always smells like hay until it cures. Some strains seem to cure slower than others. I just took out some from last fall that wasn’t very potent at first but now is pretty excellent and definitely doesn’t smell like hay!Maybe a little..but mostly the buds I just put in jars smelled grassy but You. Crush the bud a bit it smells good.yes in jars and burped , no humidity , or very low.can I fix it?thx
Happy growing
I know it is good weed because I made cannabutter from mostly leaves and a few little buds and it I really nice..Mine always smells like hay until it cures. Some strains seem to cure slower than others. I just took out some from last fall that wasn’t very potent at first but now is pretty excellent and definitely doesn’t smell like hay!
this is what I do using c-vaults and boveda packs: https://www.coloradopotguide.com/co...-why-its-important-and-how-to-do-it-properly/I know it is good weed because I made cannabutter from mostly leaves and a few little buds and it I really nice.., i never have had anything that I bought that doesn’t smell good though.i have been around this for 40 years .any info is appreciated
Thx
Happy growing
Thx for the lesson..help understand what is happening in the drying curing ...and u did a great job while stoned...if You dried small buds for 8 days in 75 degree and very low humidity they are already dried way past a cure. A mason jar or a baggy at this point is just to hold your bud, curing can no longer take place.
A good dry for small buds would be strung inside a cardboard box with a couple air holes and in maybe 60 degree and 60 % humidity so they might slowly dry. If small buds weren’t too dry in a week I would say you did a good job, but small groups of small bud is hard to dry slowly.
Proper drying would be cool and humid enough to keep the little stems attached to the buds from drying before the larger branches have a chance to slowly wick moisture through the buds and into the air. Once the bud stems dry out they can’t reopen to wick moisture into the bud so careful, controlled drying is required for the best drying.
Curing is just the continuation of drying but now you have a delicate bud with no reservoir of moisture to help control drying. In a perfect environment for the final slow exchange of moisture from the bud interior through the outer portion of the bud and into the air, no additional action is needed.
However, none of us have that, so we create conditions using mason jars so we can control the environment, especially humidity. Placed in proper temperatures the jars allow the slow wicking of remaining moisture into the jars which are burped in order to let the moisture out of the jars. With use of a small hygrometer you can watch the moisture in the jar rise as the buds continue to release moisture.
All of this is just my opinion based on my own observations, but I’m always stoned, so there’s that to consider. Best of luck.
we did t use to do anything to what was bought or grow....decades ago and it was good and smelled good..
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