Lordhooha
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What did it look like when you chopped? How long did it dry? how did you dry?
How long in the curing process before the smell starts to return (on average)
youraveragehorticulturist
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In my experience it takes About a week for buds to "dry" (dry enough to burn) and About 2 weeks for the "cure." (chlorophyll/grass taste and smell to be replaced by dankness)
Theoretically your buds could dry faster and take a little longer to cure, so these numbers are just a ball park.
Big, dense, stinky buds seems to dry slower but cure faster. I grow white-berry and it smells strongly from start to finish. And it's pretty much ready to go as soon as it's dry.
Smaller buds from lankier strains seem to dry faster but cure slower. I grew some Wedding Cake and it almost no smell on the plant had a hay smell drying and curing. It took almost 3 weeks for it to develop a nice smell.
Theoretically your buds could dry faster and take a little longer to cure, so these numbers are just a ball park.
Big, dense, stinky buds seems to dry slower but cure faster. I grow white-berry and it smells strongly from start to finish. And it's pretty much ready to go as soon as it's dry.
Smaller buds from lankier strains seem to dry faster but cure slower. I grew some Wedding Cake and it almost no smell on the plant had a hay smell drying and curing. It took almost 3 weeks for it to develop a nice smell.
Detroitwill
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Lmao at some of these answers. As a rule your plant will smell like cut grass for a few days of drying. After seven days of hanging it should smell like bud. If you wet trim it will need to be slightly roughed up ( put in jar and tossed around in side the jar) this will help it release the smell. If you dry trim you will smell it come to life as you trim. Curing only makes it stronger and smoother. It has nothing to do with odor. If you cut early you will regret it. As early cut bud doesn’t get that funk.
What youean when u say sweat em
Jjgrow420
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I slipped and murdered one of my stalks at 5 weeks. Decided to play around and dry it to see the outcome. First 4 days smelled like hay and shit, by the 7th day aromas started coming back, and is getting better day by day.
Smallbud
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Imagine that, you don't have to cure to get it to smell, just leave it dry and the magic smell fairy pays you a visit.
This is just fucking crazy, what about all the tossers who say you get the smell from the cure! What about all the dicks who jar before this and think the cure makes budz smelly.
Apparently thesedayz if it isn't 70f/60rh it's automatically shit smoke.
This is just fucking crazy, what about all the tossers who say you get the smell from the cure! What about all the dicks who jar before this and think the cure makes budz smelly.
Apparently thesedayz if it isn't 70f/60rh it's automatically shit smoke.
lusidghost
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I don't beieve in a traditional cure, but I can leave unprocessed dried buds sitting in a bucket for months and it will have a funky unfinished smell. If I take some of the buds out and "cure" them, which to me means properly hydrating them, the preharvest smell comes flooding back. I know this because I don't cure my concentrate material, but sometimes I start running out of buds before my next harvest and take some personal from the hash bucket. If I don't Boveda them first the bud tastes and smells kind of gross, but it magically dankens up when I do.
Hollatchaboy
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Dankens.....I like that! Lol
Smallbud
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It's just fucked up how some say you get the taste from leaving it for long enough and others swear it taste unfinished or shit unless it's glassed, cured and boveda rh percentage.
I don't write this shit but this once I'm pointing out your emotional conflicted bullshit and saying you need to go away, decide a one size fits all answer then come back and stop being so cryptic and conceptual.
lusidghost
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tf are you going on about, m8?
xtsho
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13 year old thread and the first post is asking when the weed starts to smell awesome from apparently way immature weed. I'm going to say never.
I dry and jar skipping any cure. Weed smells and tastes great right away. I'm not burping jars for a month.
Southernontariogrower
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Ive found that grassy weed is grassy weed, no matter what you do to it. No amount of curing is going to make any weed taste better, properly drying will get rid of those bad smells from jar, thats from overly wet buds rotting and sweating in jar. If its not good at start end isnt going to be better. Try dry trimming after 10day drying. The leaves will give you a couple extra days so chlorophil can gas off fully as it dries.
lusidghost
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Not really related, but does anyone else think buds smell like pumpkin guts immediately after they're chopped down? I smell the terps if I huff the bud like it's a gassy rag, but the general smell is like carving a pumpkin.
xtsho
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Many newer growers get too focused on curing because they read that you have to cure your weed. You don't. Then many don't do it properly and end up putting weed that's way too wet into jars where it sits there stewing with bad bacteria.
I suggest that newer growers try both ways. Slow drying for 10-14 days and jar when it's dry enough to store and curing using the daily burping and then compare. I bet many would skip the hassle and just dry it and jar skipping this curing process. I've done both. I just dry and jar.
I don't know about anyone else but I don't want to smoke weed that tastes like pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin Kush: Taste Pumpkin Pie With Every Hit
Pumpkin Kush is an exceptionally tasty variety with exotic origins.
I suggest that newer growers try both ways. Slow drying for 10-14 days and jar when it's dry enough to store and curing using the daily burping and then compare. I bet many would skip the hassle and just dry it and jar skipping this curing process. I've done both. I just dry and jar.
Royal Queen Seeds has a Pumpkin Kush. Is that what you grew?
I don't know about anyone else but I don't want to smoke weed that tastes like pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin Kush: Taste Pumpkin Pie With Every Hit
Pumpkin Kush is an exceptionally tasty variety with exotic origins.
lusidghost
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Pumpkin pie tastes like pumpkin spice, and pumpkins aren't spicy. I have no idea what that particular spice is, but I've never cared for it. I always thought chai tasted like it, but then they started making pumpkin spice chai, which I suspect is just extra chai chai.Many newer growers get too focused on curing because they read that you have to cure your weed. You don't. Then many don't do it properly and end up putting weed that's way too wet into jars where it sits there stewing with bad bacteria.
I suggest that newer growers try both ways. Slow drying for 10-14 days and jar when it's dry enough to store and curing using the daily burping and then compare. I bet many would skip the hassle and just dry it and jar skipping this curing process. I've done both. I just dry and jar.
Royal Queen Seeds has a Pumpkin Kush. Is that what you grew?
I don't know about anyone else but I don't want to smoke weed that tastes like pumpkin pie.
Pumpkin Kush: Taste Pumpkin Pie With Every Hit
Pumpkin Kush is an exceptionally tasty variety with exotic origins.
When Halloween starts ramping next month, take a whiff of a freshly carved pumpkin and a freshly wacked cola and let me know what you think.