Been drying my first crop for 7 days now , full plants hanging upside down , dark in tent with humidity between 52% - 65% and temperature between 17 -19 degrees. All plants smelled amazing before hanging however only one seems to have kept its smell . I did however give that one a good proper wet trim where as I didn't spent nearly as much time wet trimming the other 3 . They seem to have lost a lot of smell , all plants are crisp dry on the outside however small stems still not snapping . Should I leave more time to dry from the inside out or start curing ? Will the aroma and taste have a chance of coming back in the curing process ?
Little advice please
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GenericEnigma
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The crops I have dried smelled great when growing, but smelled like hay/grass when drying. When they were almost done drying, the good cannabis smell returned.
edit: FWIW, I dry to finish and store.
I pray this is the case
waterproof808
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They get a little bit of green smell mid-dry when they are still in the wet/spongy phase and then it starts to go away once you get towards the end of the drying cycle and the flowers start having structure again. If you left a lot of leaf on the flowers, it will smell even more green while drying, but in my experience when you get to the final dry trim they will smell alot stronger than flowers that were wet trimmed.
O0gieBO0gie
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Wait until the stem snaps. You dont want them to smell like mold. The grass smell is chlorophyll decay and ethylene gas. Once your crop is dry and most of the decay is done the flower smell comes back with a vengence in the cure.
Boatguy
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This^^
Herb & Suds
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For me
Your previous pics look like you harvested too early
Hard to be sure with shots so far away but I feel like they had more fattening up to do
That would cause the good smell to disappear on drying
Your previous pics look like you harvested too early
Hard to be sure with shots so far away but I feel like they had more fattening up to do
That would cause the good smell to disappear on drying
Yeah this is what I seem to have read , the chlorophyll releasing ect , but my buds feel dryer than a nuns.... Well you get the point ! Even thought they haven't been forced . Devastated isn't the word . As I said the one plant I did give a really good trim too seems to still be that sticky way when I squeeze the buds , unlike the others and still smells amazing . That would make sense as to the chlorophyll releasing from the plants that haven't been as well wet trimmed .
I am thinking I was a week too early
Herb & Suds
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Or three
There is no way my grape was early , no way atall , any longer and it would have started going sparsy as hell , and my blue sherbert still looks and smells unreal, they all had the same flowering time, I know this can vary slightly due to different factors but 3 weeks surely not...
ALPHA.GanjaGuy
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Can you explain how this would make 'the good smell to disappear on drying'?
genuinly confused how that could happen if they smelled good before harvesting, the ops only loss should be the added weight of not letting them finish no?
Herb & Suds
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Immature harvest don’t develop the strong smell or flavor
Harvest one plant you think is done then harvest a clone of same development two weeks later
Early harvest tend to be a hay/grass profile
