Smells

Hey guys, I chopped my Cindy99 2 days ago and it's hanging upside down in a cool room with a large fan at the other end of the room for circulation, the problem is, it just smells like dead grass. I went by the trichomes so it's roughly 50/50 amber/cloudy. Before I chopped it, it smelled like a perfectly ripe grapefruit, but now it just smells meh.

I chopped it at the base of the stem, it's a little crispy on the outside but it still feels fairly soft and squishy over all.

Is this the norm or have I done something wrong?

She was given plain tap water for the last 2 weeks of her life and I waited for until I would usually water again to chop.

And before anyone starts giving me grief about doing a search, I did and I didn't see anything at first glance.

U have dryied too quick slow the drying down u left all the leaves on?

ooook im just going to tell you what you should have done for next time first..dont chop the whole plant and do that gay ass flip it upside down and trim later....a that makes trimming harder and b you get more of a hayish smell at the beginning, just cut branch by branch and trim the excess sugar leaves around the buds right then also first thing is pull off and discard all fan leaves on the plant..then you dry a couple days and as soon as its a little crispy you need to cut it down to nugs from the branches, do any final trimming, and jar it all up..from there check it every morning and night to make sure if its moist again you let the jar sit open for a few hours and comb the buds around in the jar. after a few days or week or so you can do this way less to never this is when your getting a perfect cure at the point where the buds arent getting wet but they arent dry yet either..so as for what youve already done ya its normal for the awesome smell to almost leave the buds a smell will come back when the cure is getting toward the end but it wont be the growing smell it will be more of a bud smell and if it smells like hay when your all done then you did dry too fast! you do not want to dry fast the key is to make this process take long as possible. once its dry you cannot go back and cure its done. so get those trimmed up and packed nice and tight into a jar and see how they feel by tonight or morning and hopefully you still have moisture in them to sweat out

shitty strain = shitty smells.......................

I agree with kermy . I just cut and down my last tuesday and dried for 5 days ( so cal , Beachy ) was cloudy and foggy so i used a space heater to keep humidity low.
then a canned them and , they been like that 3 days now.

I grew tasty weed. LA confi, blue dream, hindu kush and super lemon haze, they DID LOOSE some smell at and during choping and drying, I used a dry net and removed ALL FAN LEAVES AND STEMS , ALSO TRIMMED VERY NICELY BEFORE EVEN TOUCHING THE DRYNET. Once they have been burped and in the jars for a few days the smell is coming back and I have 6 oz of stinky sticky dank.

We always chop it into manageable sized stalks, remove all the fans and toss them out-- then trim the buds nice & neat-- putting the trim in a brown paper bag to dry... hang the branches or lay them on a screen to SLOW DRY.. yes- you need a fan to circulate the air- but not pointed right at the plant.

Cut off all the fan leaves NOW.. trimming will have to wait-- but those big leaves have a LOT of chlorophyll in them that takes time to degrade (the hay /grass smell) and it won't help the quality of your buds any to leave em on right now....

have fun! Trimming is a bitch after they wilt/dry-- much easier right after the chop!

Read the sticky called A Perfect Cure. If you do that right, the good smell should return and you'll make the most of what you have. Good luck!

It might take a week for the smell to start returning -- but I'll tell you...my bud has been curing now for 7-8 weeks in jars and it smells amazing.

Well, I guess I should have put more info in, I had already trimmed the plant before I actually chopped it, it's all connected to the main stem though still. Also, it hadn't been drying for 2 days, it was 4(now day 5 drying), sorry it was a typo.

The ambient room temperature was fair below the average as we had no heating for 2 days due to there being work on gas mains in our area, so we were supplied with electric heaters, which I might add were pitiful on the highest setting.

caligreenzzz said:

shitty strain = shitty smells.......................

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Bad workman blames his tools.

And I'll have a read of that thread, thanks!

oh ok you did trim ahead of time, good call! i only chop it down to branches for ease and control while trimming..so then sounds like you are good to go as long as you dont let it over dry and then cure properly. i guess your only real question no matter what we all took from it was about smell so ill address that in further detail..the hay smell can come from two things the first is like we all thought from the rest of the plant and that will go away the second unfortunately you cant get rid of. that would be if you had high heat during your grow or anything else that caused subpar wispy buds, ive seen this happen to a buddy and once for myself when i was a noob. it seems to me this causes a super fast dry and it just smells like wet grass, ive never found a way to remedy this..have some pics?? i can easily tell if you will be able to get rid of the smell by looking at the herb

oh and another thing i think can contribute to the hay smell is allowing your crop to be fertilized while its dry and hot..this will cause those little premie seeds that never fully develop and absolutely ruins a crop. when this is done even if it smelled and looked good growing it will come out like nasty smelling crap!

How well did you flush the plant? Sometimes not a thorough-enough flush will make it smell grassy.... it shoul go away once cured/jarred !

ahh thats also true you can get unwanted smell/burn/taste from a bad flush but thats ONLY if your using chem ferts...if your growing organic it is literally impossible to flush so no point in trying...

kermit2692 said:

ahh thats also true you can get unwanted smell/burn/taste from a bad flush but thats ONLY if your using chem ferts...if your growing organic it is literally impossible to flush so no point in trying...

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What??? Organic fertilizers have no heavy metals or any naturally occuring minerals? Your plants don't care if its Urea or Calcium Nitrate, to them nitrogen is nitrogen. I have had both organic and chemical fertilizers tested and both need to be flushed well before ingesting.

I would flush in either situation.

lmao thats ok bud its called ignorance you dont know your wrong yet i understand...ill explain it to you but its up to you to believe me..basically chem ferts are automatically ready to be sucked up by the plant because they are made that way on purpose and it can happen immediately but organic ferts work with the soil to create a natural environment and in organics the nutes must first be processed by the micro biology in the soil before the plant can process it therefore you cannot wash the nutes from the soil they become part of the soil...thats the best i can explain it go do some research on the subject..this fact is backed by people such as subcool right on this site ive seen him say the very same thing (though i already knew it ) just incase you dont believe a "random" person

not trying to be a dick or anything just you seem so sure of yourself but your spreading misinformation so i jumped all over it lol no harm meant

kermit2692 said:

lmao thats ok bud its called ignorance you dont know your wrong yet i understand...ill explain it to you but its up to you to believe me..basically chem ferts are automatically ready to be sucked up by the plant because they are made that way on purpose and it can happen immediately but organic ferts work with the soil to create a natural environment and in organics the nutes must first be processed by the micro biology in the soil before the plant can process it therefore you cannot wash the nutes from the soil they become part of the soil...thats the best i can explain it go do some research on the subject..this fact is backed by people such as subcool right on this site ive seen him say the very same thing (though i already knew it ) just incase you dont believe a "random" person

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No Kermit you basically have it correct. The difference in our train of thoughts is my background, comparing chemical fertilizers and leftover residues was my job. Although It was for chemicals we also did organic testing, and even though you are correct in theory, testing on organic substances showed that even in organics there is a drop of usuable nutrients once a flush is implimented. That only means one thing in my book.

Chemical ferts get a bad rap due to the over use in high doses by in-experienced growers. If you do not flush either chemical or organic I would recommend spending the $50 bucks and check it yourself.

I think the results will suprise you.

maybe it is I that is ignorant lol...however i didnt know what i knew now back when i ran my first organic grow (as i ran chem ferts my first few runs with great success) and so i did try to flush it and i did notice a slight yellowing or light greening id call it even but that was about two weeks of flushing! so i found out organic growers dont flush for the reason i stated and thought well shit the little bit of effect i had couldnt have been positive overall compared to not flushing at all...you disagree your saying? but you also agree that you cannot actually flush the soil in a fast enough time period that it isnt detremental to the grow cycle? so what is your suggestion!! lol and what are you advising i buy to try what lol chem ferts? or some flushing agent..the chem ferts ive tried and not had a problem with the flushing agent i may have just made up lol

LadyZandra said:

How well did you flush the plant? Sometimes not a thorough-enough flush will make it smell grassy.... it shoul go away once cured/jarred !

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Well, it was in a 5litre pot and I only gave it tap water for two weeks, I fill up 2litre bottles and I had been giving it around 1 litre per watering(usually every 2-3 days).