Drying/curing

Hello, just joined the site cuz I had some problems with my last grow.

So everything went great up until harvest. I was growing in soil (just recently switched to my own hydro setup) and I harvested, yay. Started drying and I waited until the outside was a lil crispy and the stem audibly snapped. The drying part seemed to go fine. Then I started curing... I didn't start in bags, which Ive learned I should have, I just started with a jar. Everytime I opened the jar, it smelled rancid. I tried drying more, and there were absolutely no signs of mold. So I kept this up for about a month, opening the jar a few times a day for a few minutes, and the smell never got better. It just smelled like compost. I eventually gave up and just smoked the shit after I let it sit out for a while, but I don't know what I did wrong. I followed all the instructions that I could find.

Does anyone know what might have caused this? (at first I thought i didn't dry well enough, but I dried em pretty damn well)

I,m not a expert but did you flush your plants before harvest, it could possibly be coming from chemicals you used during growth and flower.

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Originally Posted by Big len

I,m not a expert but did you flush your plants before harvest, it could possibly be coming from chemicals you used during growth and flower.

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This def could be the smell, but I had a sativa strain that had a real bad smell to it but it was real potent so who cares. And another thing I never cure using bags first just go right to jars when there dry enough. After a few harvests you'll know when the right time is to throw those buds in the jar.

I put some over-nuted plants that I killed at 4.5 weeks into flower in a jar and every time I opened it, it smelled like a butt. If you didn't flush, this might be where your smell comes from. Like someone said up there, it doesn't matter what it smells like if it smokes nicely.

if you didn't trim them properly you may have gotten that "yard clippings" smell. i've cure a couple times w/o a flush and had no probs. i go right into jars after the hang too. some strains can be smelly.

hmmm... thanks guys, now that you mention it, i didn't flush... ill make sure to this time