Drying question

[2budz]

I've struggled with drying/curing. I grow these amazing shiny trichome covered buds then they always have a freshly cut grass smell. It has gotten better, my last harvest of Gelato actually smells sweet and citrusy, but there's a hint of grass still. It's very disheartening. I've tried different methods of drying and cure in glass, use a hygrometer and still haven't had luck.

 

[DankDoctor420]

I've struggled with drying/curing. I grow these amazing shiny trichome covered buds then they always have a freshly cut grass smell. It has gotten better, my last harvest of Gelato actually smells sweet and citrusy, but there's a hint of grass still. It's very disheartening. I've tried different methods of drying and cure in glass, use a hygrometer and still haven't had luck.

Dude I'm there with you. They smelt great for a few days now hay grassy smell so I'm letting em dry out again before I seal em up and hope that helps. I gotta get me a damn wood moisture meter to start checking before I jar cuz I suck at this and f**k it up every time and I'm ready to give up if I don't get it right soon. Years of heart aches and money wasted. So mad at myself. This plant can really fuck with your ego when you can't get it right. I feel like a failure. Growing weed is easy as shit to me. Harvesting it is where it messes me up. I'm gonna have to get a meter and if I can't get it right from there I'm frickin done with it. I'll just buy dispensary weed and quit if I fail my next harvest. Start growing veggies and fruit instead.

 

[CannabisMingus]

Harvesting it is where it messes me up. I'm gonna have to get a meter and if I can't get it right from there I'm frickin done with it.

Stay with it man. You'll get there. FWIW my cures improved overall (and significantly) when I started using grove bags. YMMV, IMHO, etc.

 

[olegren]

Dude I'm there with you. They smelt great for a few days now hay grassy smell so I'm letting em dry out again before I seal em up and hope that helps. I gotta get me a damn wood moisture meter to start checking before I jar cuz I suck at this and f**k it up every time and I'm ready to give up if I don't get it right soon. Years of heart aches and money wasted. So mad at myself. This plant can really fuck with your ego when you can't get it right. I feel like a failure. Growing weed is easy as shit to me. Harvesting it is where it messes me up. I'm gonna have to get a meter and if I can't get it right from there I'm frickin done with it. I'll just buy dispensary weed and quit if I fail my next harvest. Start growing veggies and fruit instead.

This has been my experience as well. I have found that, with each weekly burp, that hay smell goes away again - and the next week has a little less of it. I am guessing that's why people report Grove Bags to work so well - because that whole process of letting the chlorophyll gas escape is optimized. Not that I understand it, but... SCIENCE!

 

[mdabber]

Dude I'm there with you. They smelt great for a few days now hay grassy smell so I'm letting em dry out again before I seal em up and hope that helps. I gotta get me a damn wood moisture meter to start checking before I jar cuz I suck at this and f**k it up every time and I'm ready to give up if I don't get it right soon. Years of heart aches and money wasted. So mad at myself. This plant can really fuck with your ego when you can't get it right. I feel like a failure. Growing weed is easy as shit to me. Harvesting it is where it messes me up. I'm gonna have to get a meter and if I can't get it right from there I'm frickin done with it. I'll just buy dispensary weed and quit if I fail my next harvest. Start growing veggies and fruit instead.

You guys need to bag sweat for a week or two. Can't speak for groove bags but a sweat for a week or two will pull out that excess moisture. You need to have atleast 50rh I like 55-60rh no more than 65 if your room is dry you are losing terps. Even if your bud sucks still thc. Make edibles.

 

[mdabber]

This has been my experience as well. I have found that, with each weekly burp, that hay smell goes away again - and the next week has a little less of it. I am guessing that's why people report Grove Bags to work so well - because that whole process of letting the chlorophyll gas escape is optimized. Not that I understand it, but... SCIENCE!

The chlorophyll gets eaten by bacteria that lives without oxygen when the jar is sealed.

 

[olegren]

The chlorophyll gets eaten by bacteria that lives without oxygen when the jar is sealed.

Is the gas released as a byproduct of that consumption what we're smelling when we burp? I ask only because I notice it most strongly each time I burp - but once I am about to re-seal, the smells are much more what I would expect.

 

[mdabber]

I'm not sure. I just know the sugars and chlorophyll get eaten by anaerobic bacteria. They consume it stay stay alive and multiply

 

[CannabisMingus]

My understanding is that the bacteria that break down chlorophyll are aerobic - hence the need for burping.

 

[mdabber]

My understanding is that the bacteria that break down chlorophyll are aerobic - hence the need for burping.

Looks like your right I read that too maybe it's both that do. I know that when I sweat with the bags before Jars I got nice consistency and not seeing mold when I don't open jar