Hay smell help me please

This is my 3rd attemp. 1st time i dried too fast and it was all hay and never got better.
2nd grow i kept it at 50% humidity and it took 7 days to almost snap off
Cured it and the weed was fire.
Smelled like gas

Now my 3rd time i thought i had it down
The weed was frosty and fire af before cutring down
Kept it in the same spot as last time again at 50% humidity
My shit was brittle after 5 days and got that hay smell again
Put it in jars 2 days ago but it keeps having either a hay smell or a very minty grass smell but the buds are not brittle anymore

I know this is the chorofill that did not get to come out
But i am lost
I dont know what to do anymore
All i want is to have my shit smell like the stuff in the coffeeshops but all my hard work is lost to hay smell everytime.

I am scared to start another grow only to have it smell like hay again.

What more can i do besides keep it at 50% humidity in a tent that 20 degrees Celsius
Have a small fan blowing on the floor not at the buds in the dark.

Any help on how to get it to smell like it should would be so helpfull

Hi Daylee,

Harvesting when it's fully ripened?

When do you do a full trim?

Drying by hanging the plant whole / large pieces?

Might be drying too much initially before you store to cure? I've found that if my stems snap, then it's a little too dry personally. I've found that it's good to hear a snap, but the stem should still be juuust damp enough to still hold together, and have some tenacity.
Gives the buds just enough texture that they don't crumble, and just enough moisture to get a decent cure for a few weeks before long-term storage.

All i can think of myself really. Sure someone else will chime in too.

To be honest depending on the type of strain, a minty smell can be a really good thing. Personal taste i suppose.

I've had hay smell before, both when i've harvested too early, and when i've wet trimmed.

Think as long as you harvest when ripe and dry slowly for 7 - 14 days, you should have a decent tasting product regardless of a cure imo.

Hope it helps, and good luck with your harvest.

I feel for ya. Been there.

All I have to offer is my drying method. Hope its of some help.
0. I do not dry out my plants before harvest. Chop before lights on.
1. Be prepared to keep dry room dark at 65f/60rh.
2. Hang plants whole, or as big as possible.
3. Indirect and gentle airflow.
(No direct airflow on plants)
4. Check daily for anything funky going on. Bud rot, mold.


Not cheap for me. I use a sealed room with AC and dehuey running 24/7.

.....I chopped this morning! Day 81 - Wifi Alien.

Praying for a nice slow 7 to 10 day dry.

Aussieaceae said:

Hi Daylee,

Harvesting when it's fully ripened?

When do you do a full trim?

Drying by hanging the plant whole / large pieces?

Might be drying too much initially before you store to cure? I've found that if my stems snap, then it's a little too dry personally. I've found that it's good to hear a snap, but the stem should still be juuust damp enough to still hold together, and have some tenacity.
Gives the buds just enough texture that they don't crumble, and just enough moisture to get a decent cure for a few weeks before long-term storage.

All i can think of myself really. Sure someone else will chime in too.

To be honest depending on the type of strain, a minty smell can be a really good thing. Personal taste i suppose.

I've had hay smell before, both when i've harvested too early, and when i've wet trimmed.

Think as long as you harvest when ripe and dry slowly for 7 - 14 days, you should have a decent tasting product regardless of a cure imo.

Hope it helps, and good luck with your harvest.

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The plants were ripe
I only take off big fan leafs
And hang the plant whole upside down
In 50% humidity and 20 degrees Celsius
The buds were dry and brittle after 5 days
But the stems did not snap
The hay smell was there
I then put it all in jars
Not the weed is not dry anymore but spongy
The smells seems to still have a grass/minty type smell on 2 strains 1 strain smells like hay.

I can life with fucking it up.
What kills me is not knowing what to do so it wont happen next time.

Dont know if you guys know what i mean but i want that smell when you walk past a coffeeshop or just a spot where some1 that smoked a dank joint. That smell

Daylee said:

The plants were ripe
I only take off big fan leafs
And hang the plant whole upside down
In 50% humidity and 20 degrees Celsius
The buds were dry and brittle after 5 days
But the stems did not snap
The hay smell was there
I then put it all in jars
Not the weed is not dry anymore but spongy
The smells seems to still have a grass/minty type smell on 2 strains 1 strain smells like hay.

I can life with fucking it up.
What kills me is not knowing what to do so it wont happen next time.

Dont know if you guys know what i mean but i want that smell when you walk past a coffeeshop or just a spot where some1 that smoked a dank joint. That smell

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Maybe you've got too much air blowing around? 5 days seems rather fast to me for the outside of the buds to be dry like that on the outside, and still quite damp inside.

I'll take your word when you say you harvested ripe, but harvesting too early has nearly always been the culprit for me.

All i can really think of myself.

This was like 5 days before harvest i had like 15% amber the rest was mostly cloudy

Sucks so bad to not know what i can do to make it smell like dank

So you harvested the same.. What did you do different growing..

People keep blaming the cure for bad weed.. Its not the problem..

Nothing same lights.
Nutrient was almost the same. Did not use a bloom booster but thats about it. Same fans same tent same place

Daylee said:

The buds were dry and brittle after 5 days
But the stems did not snap

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This is a direct indication of too much airflow. As your bud slowly dries, the moisture within the stems should gradually wick into the buds then into the atmosphere thru dehydration. If your buds are brittle but your stems are lush, one could ascertain that maybe there's too much air exchange blasting them (even if there's no fan pointing at them).

Try lowering airflow even more, raising humidity to ~55-60% and keep a close eye.

If all else fails, I would then suspect finicky genetics. There's been a couple of times where I know I've dried properly but the plant just wasn't up to par genetically, even though it smelled dank before chop.

UncleReemis said:

This is a direct indication of too much airflow. As your bud slowly dries, the moisture within the stems should gradually wick into the buds then into the atmosphere thru dehydration. If your buds are brittle but your stems are lush, one could ascertain that maybe there's too much air exchange blasting them (even if there's no fan pointing at them).

Try lowering airflow even more, raising humidity to ~55-60% and keep a close eye.

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This makes the most sense to me. Maybe ill have to turn off my fan all the way.
Just messed up i have to wait atleast 3 months to try again

If after 5 days it was crispy on the outside and still soft on the inside take the buds off the stem and put them in a paper bag. Usually I hang dry for 7-10 days and then do this. It allows the buds to equalize their moisture. Everyday check on them and stir them all around or give it a shake. Usually after 4-7 days in the bag my buds perfect. I take them out trim them up and out them in jars. If it's done right they don't need to be "burped" or messed with. I'll usually check on them after a couple days just I make sure, but typically I make sure they are right when they come out of the bag.

As mentioned above chopping early is definitely the number one reason peoples buds don't taste great. The bud in that picture looks pretty mature though.

Genetics can totally play a huge role in amount of smell. I have a mystery plant right now that I just harvested. Through it's whole life it has had literally zero smell. It's totally weird.

What strain are we talking about. I buy over-hyped seeds all the time and 90% are just average low smell mid-grade weed. I was just talking to a guy the other day about how many different strains I have to try to get one good keeper strain. I have a keeper Sour Diesel that will stink no matter how it's dried. Other stuff grown and dried right beside it will have no smell. The only time I killed the smell on the Sour D was drying at 90 degrees and high humidity. Lesson learned and AC purchased.

Banana strawberry - reserva privada
Tahoo og - cali connection
Sensi star - paradise seeds
These are the strains

The buds have dried abit more now and the left over stems are starting to snap.

The hay smell turned into a feint grass smell. When i press the buds i smell the good smell that used to be in it.
After smoking it has sort of an after taste.

Maybe ill make some oil off it and hopefully learn my lesson

5 days is too quick like others said

I've started to do a dry trim, hang em upside down without trimming anything, the smell was way better.

in testing ...

Be patient, sometimes the the hay/grassy smell will go away and start getting better after a a couple weeks.

I wet trim. Wet trimming brings out that hay smell for me when first hang them. But, it does go away and once dried and a week of cure in the jars, the skunkyness comes back nicely. I open the jar for 20seconds and my girl screams from the other room, "I smell it, pack me a bowl". Also my shit dries in 3-4 days because I wet trimmed. I cannot stand dry trimming. Could they smell better? For sure, but I grow for myself so it all gets me high regardless of smell lol. nice lookin buds brotha.

In all honesty because my buds get rather dry in 4 days, I take down at 3-4 days and throw in a large paper bag and fold seal it. Give the bag a mix once a day to move the more moistened buds around. I do this for 3-4 days. The smell comes out nicely. The trick is to know when to bring them down into that bag. If i let them dry for more than 4 days they get too dry. My tent is 72f and Rh is 55. I cant do any better than that and i refuse to dry trim so I just work with what I got lol.

I'd blame your strain not your cure. That or your actual geographical location is causing it. Jolly Pumpkin's beers all have a hay smell because of the wild yeast in their location that their beers are inoculated with. Maybe your house has barn smells so now your weed does?

It's probably just the strain. I like the smell you're talking about though I'll smoke that weed if you don't want it! Kids these days are all hype on the gas, y'all need to settle down.

I grew Blue Mystic and it was decent. It smelled like hay up close but stunk to high heaven outside of the bag. Everyone within a 25ft radius could smell it. It was kinda bizarre.