Harvest & Curing Hay or grass smell after dry?

[Choctaw]

I dried for 7 days. Put in jars and was getting a reading of 56%. I moved it to grove bags and added a boveda pack now sit at 62%.

Will the grass smell go away or should I make edibles or wax from it?

my dry temp/humidity was 75.6F and 45-51% humidity for 7 days and they were crispy to the touch.

 

[Bob's Auto's]

I dried for 7 days. Put in jars and was getting a reading of 56%. I moved it to grove bags and added a boveda pack now sit at 62%.

Will the grass smell go away or should I make edibles or wax from it?

my dry temp/humidity was 75.6F and 45-51% humidity for 7 days and they were crispy to the touch.

I think you dried it to far. Usually one dries the herb until it's around 64-65% and then jar it for curing. The weed needs that little bit humidity to startup the curing process. Each time you burp the jar a bit of that remaining humidity that left the plant gets vented away and so lowering the humidity in the jar.
Putting in the weed so dry you didn't cure and rewetting by using a Boveda doesn't help it as the cellular activity inside the plant has ceased to exist...

 

[Choctaw]

I think you dried it to far. Usually one dries the herb until it's around 64-65% and then jar it for curing. The weed needs that little bit humidity to startup the curing process. Each time you burp the jar a bit of that remaining humidity that left the plant gets vented away and so lowering the humidity in the jar.
Putting in the weed so dry you didn't cure and rewetting by using a Boveda doesn't help it as the cellular activity inside the plant has ceased to exist...

Can you make wax or edibles like cannabutter or something so its not a waste?

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

You slowed the cure process but your weed will be fine. Just LITFA for 3 weeks.

 

[Choctaw]

You slowed the cure process but your weed will be fine. Just LITFA for 3 weeks.

Thanks, I will let it sit a few weeks then check it.

 

[TrichomeAssassin]

Thanks, I will let it sit a few weeks then check it.

What was the outcome?

 

[Choctaw]

What was the outcome?

I haven’t checked it. I will open the grove bag tomorrow and let you know.

 

[Choctaw]

What was the outcome?

I just took a big whiff and it’s a little better but still has a distinct grass smell. If it doesn’t go away in a few more weeks I will probably make green dragon out of it. Whole plant only yielded 30 grams. I haven’t tried any of it out yet so not sure how it tastes.

My other 2 plants, I am drying in paper bag method and they do not have this smell. I will paper bag dry everything now.

 

[Choctaw]

What was the outcome?

Another update, opened the bag today and the smell seems to have changed a bit. Smells kinda sweet and the hay smell has went down a good bit.

This is day 20 in the grove bag.

 

[Cannagus]

I haven’t checked it. I will open the grove bag tomorrow and let you know.

My understanding of Grove Bags has been that no boveda is necessary in them and actually best to not use them in Grove bags. Maybe I'm mistaken.

I had bud from last year that retained a grassy alfalfa smell in the jar, but when you smoke it, it tastes as it should with no alfalfa. Just what's in the jar smells that way.