weed smell like fresh cut grass

Mr Botanical

Mr Botanical

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SatansGift said:
Are you drying it long enough after your harvest? It should take anywhere from 3 days to a week. Plus when you manicure your buds make sure you're getting off all the leaves. and jar it for at least a week burping it twice a day for about 30 min.
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You should say up to 2 weeks for drying. If you're drying in 3 days you're drying too quickly - no doubt from incorrect temperatures, airflow or humidity. You'll get a much better taste drying slowly for 2 weeks. It's not only important to get your grow room running at the optimum values, but also your drying area. If you're not drying it properly, what's the point of growing it properly. Drying too quickly traps chlorophylls and other pigments, starch and nitrates within plant tissue, making it taste “green”, burn unevenly and taste bad. Drying slowly breaks these pigments down giving a much better taste and aroma.

You can affect the aroma by overhandling buds (squeezing them) and many other factors. Terpenes are what give you the aroma and they can evaporate with warm temperatures, like warm fingers or warm drying conditions. If your drying area is too warm you will lose aromas. If you man-handle your buds too much you will lose aromas. If your light is too close to a bud you can evaporate the terpenes on that bud and lose aromas. The top bud closest to the light generally has more strength, but has less aroma and taste due to the terpene evaporation. Another way of killing terpenes is harvesting at the wrong time. Too early and they're not ripe enough. Too late and they're over ripe. Respect your terpenes and you will be rewarded much more.
 
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bottanyboy

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Once you cut your trees down hang them in your back seat of your car and make sure to keep the windows up and roll them down a few times a day. Swerve a few times to get them moving around a bit. Then take a u turn to make sure the buds stay lost. As soon as you get to Antarctica your buds shouldn't have a hay smell to them anymore.


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Jaydawg0720

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Butthead08 said:
someone needs to make a sticky answering this question weed that smells like grass/hay means you cut the plant down too early it has nothing to do with how you cured it the smell wont get any better no matter how long you leave it in jars
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Not at all true. I’ve went exactly to the day b fore cut down and I’ve tried going past the harv st window. Still got the green smell and taste. So that ideal of yours is trash imo
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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at the very minimum, it takes 5 days to break down chlorophyll, 7-10 days is better. if your weed is drying in less than 5 days, that's too fast. lower the temp slightly, raise the rh slightly, reduce air flow slightly...don't want to just drop any of it drastically, but keep lowering the temp and raising the rh little by little, till it takes at least 5 days, then adjust it till it takes 7....
 
tyke1973

tyke1973

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Just put the Fans on the Plants ,I dry prune but that bits up to you .A long with having the fans on the plants ,make sure that you have good air Exchange,so leave your inlet ,and your Outlet,Carbon Filter on.The Humidity of the Room will slowly lower the dryer the plants get .I dry prune.Because I think a hell of a lot is wasted if you wet prune.I do sometimes split my plants, But my plants do grow big .It will take 7 Days in summer to dry them ,longer in winter ,I pull fresh air from a crawl space too,that is all ways cool.Don't forget that if your pulling air from Outdoors ,and the Humidity is high,then your pulling that into your room,along with the moisture,the plants will be transpireing during the drying process.I like them dry but still a little Spongey,when there at this stage ,this is when I put them in jars,and then I just burp the jars for 5 mins ,a couple times a day for first few days.Then after about a week ,I check to make sure there perfectly dry and seal the jars ,lid stays on un till I am ready to sample.Its all ways worked good for me I still have the bud from before my last one to get through yet,G13 haze x Blueberry Headband ,Ch9 Super Haze .Cookie Kush has gone .Also Pineapple Express and Strawberry Glue .So this is the reason my rooms are gonna be put to rest for a while ,while I get through some of this ,Blueberry Gum still to dry yet,and then Smoke .

But honest dude it ain't Rocket Science,if the weed smells like fresh cut grass,that's to do with the way you have grown it ,or just how it smells .

Enjoy Tyke
 
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BeauVida

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"What you are smelling is the chlorophyll in the plant which is why it smells like fresh cut lawn."

Lipoxygenase-derived green leaf volatiles, hexanals derived from 18 carbon fatty acids, produce the grass smell. Which is the origin of hexanoic acid, the initial substrate for the biosynthesis of cannabinoids and cannabis volatiles.

More hexanol = more better? Yes. Inducing the incorrect form of stress to replace cannabinoids/terpenoids with GLVs? No

Harvesting Cannabis is a lost art.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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BeauVida said:
"What you are smelling is the chlorophyll in the plant which is why it smells like fresh cut lawn."

Lipoxygenase-derived green leaf volatiles, hexanals derived from 18 carbon fatty acids, produce the grass smell. Which is the origin of hexanoic acid, the initial substrate for the biosynthesis of cannabinoids and cannabis volatiles.

More hexanol = more better? Yes. Inducing the incorrect form of stress to replace cannabinoids/terpenoids with GLVs? No

Harvesting Cannabis is a lost art.
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bullshit. I do it regularly, and never get a grassy smell, or an ammonia smell, or a dirty smell....There are no lost arts, just lost artists.
 
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