Difference between the dank I buy and the dank I grow

[growindownsouth]

Why is it that these little nugs that you buy from people that you know weren't cured smell so rank when you pop a jar or pinch the nug and they taste so delicious, but sometimes when you grow the nug seems to lose its smell or flavor after the dry? (These are really good nugs, just not big like the clones I grow)

Anyone else experienced this and anyone know why this occurs when you are drying out the same way?

I flush for a week and grow organic in soil. I hang for 2 or 3 days and then throw into brown paper bags where they stay for another 4-6 days before being jarred, where I keep them until they are done(except for popping occasioanlly).

Note: I have always grown with a 250 and I am growing for the first time SOG with a 600 so my results could be way different. I also added some extra supplements this time around to the fox farm 3 (liquid karma, sugar daddy, pk 13/14, clearex for flush)

Any help would be appreciated, as my nugs look staight out of amsterdam covered in crystals and I yield in a little over a week at 63 days and I want it to be the best to date. I always get nervous during the dry and cure process as sometimes when your throwing them into the jars they already seem to have lost a lot of the smell.

growindownsouth Reviewed by growindownsouth on 12-17-2008. Difference between the dank I buy and the dank I grow Why is it that these little nugs that you buy from people that you know weren't cured smell so rank when you pop a jar or pinch the nug and they taste so delicious, but sometimes when you grow the nug seems to lose its smell or flavor after the dry? (These are really good nugs, just not big like the clones I grow) Anyone else experienced this and anyone know why this occurs when you are drying out the same way? I flush for a week and grow organic in soil. I hang for 2 or 3 days and then Rating: 5

[VapedG13]

When I cure......I trim as many leaves as possible before downing the plant....then I hang the entire plant (cut of at the base) in the dark 65-70*F until the plants feels dry....usually about a week.

I then get a 33 gallon trash bag and enclose the entire plant inside the bag and tie the top off...I leave the plant hanking up inside the bag for 2 days...it draws the moisture from the stems/stock back into the buds allowing for a slow cure.

After the 2 days I remove the trash bag and let the plant dry until the buds are nice and dry 2-3 days.

Smell has to do with strain...you want some smelly herb get some skunk #1 or a indica strain

Taste normally has to do with strain, flushing and curing....the slower the cure the better the taste

[growindownsouth]

Thnsk for the response. I grow SOG though so i don't know how efficient bagging every separate plant would be.

Also about the strains, every strain I buy thogh, whether it be some kali mist, kush, mazar, sour diesel, norhtern lights, ssh...its all ranky (You know that dank smell! All plants have it that are grown right, or suppose to) Anyone know what I'm taslking about and had some buds lose there smell or flavor and know what caused it?

I just wants to avoid any downfalls and have the best nug ever...thanks in advance

[smpaz420]

i know what you mean, it doesnt lose taste just doesnt smell like the stuff you would buy. Looks great, taste's good just does not have the smell unless you squeeze it.

[MedicineMan13]

Iv'e seen many home grown plants turn out to smell like grass. No not grass weed, grass like backyard grass! From organic to hydro. Even seen some while growing and smelling very pugnent, then turn out to smell like backyard grass even after properly curing.

This cant just be genetic. Their was smell while growing, something must have happened to the smell but what.....?

[smpaz420]

i have a very stinky one while growing, but it hardly smells when you open a jar of it, not like it matters to me but i do like that danky smell, as stinkyattic put it "smells like 2 skunks fucking" smell lol.

[growindownsouth]

Exactly! How do I get the '2 skunks fucking' smell every time? The shit smells GREAT during veg and is sticky as hell covered in trichs, I want it to keep this smell. Thanks again

Maybe Stinky Attic will pop her head in?

[MedicineMan13]

I had a friend who grew like 15 plants once from seeds he ordered online, were talking top quality strains here. Satori, Hash Plant, White Widow, etc. I saw them a few time while they were flowering, all their smells were so pugnent and distinguished from one another. But once they were harvested, dried and cured, they lost it all and smelled like back yard grass. Well, good smelling back yard grass but not anything like these genetics should have.

He trimmed leaves once harvested and hung in dark ventilated room for 3-4 days, then cured for 1-2 weeks. End product was mierda.

What am I not seeing here, why does this happen so often to people?

[GreenZero]

I really hope some pro's chime in as well. I would love to see what they say.

I'm scared about this right now. I don't want to loose all the hard work that I've put in for this fun yet daunting hobby.

Please Stinky, spread your wisdom.

-GZ

[stinkyattic]

During the first part of the cure, you will notice more of a vegetable/hay smell- Usually when you dry, first you hang, then go into a paper bag or right into a glass jar to be 'burped' for a week or so. At the end of this, your buds are dried down to weight, but they don't smell like much of anything.
Leave them in a glass jar, LOOSELY packed, checking every couple days to verify that they do not feel moist or smell like ammonia, which means you jarred them too early and they may be decaying. After 2-4 weeks, you will notice that the hay smell is fading and the pot smell is coming back.

You only get 2 skunks fucking when you grow a roadkill skunk strain. Otherwise you might just get one skunk masturbating with lemon furniture polish, which is a pretty common variation on the skunk theme, or no skunks wrestling in a pile of rotting fruit.

If two skunks fuck and no potheads are there to appreciate it, do they really stink?