the hay smell

[Zedleppelin]

Flush for a week to 10 days before harvesting. Hang them up for a month in a dark room - 65% humidity at between 65-70 degrees F.

Your pot will smell like pot when it is trimmed and stored in curing jars.

1. Flushing is a myth, is detrimental to the plants health (you are starving it) and does nothing to change taste or smell.

2. Hanging your buds for a month will get you some nice bone dry shake.

[SoCoMMJ]

1. Flushing is a myth, is detrimental to the plants health (you are starving it) and does nothing to change taste or smell.

2. Hanging your buds for a month will get you some nice bone dry shake.

Hanging for a month @ 65% will get you a large pile of moldy buds.

[puntacometa]

Hanging for a month @ 65% will get you a large pile of moldy buds.

If you are in Southern Colorado, I could show you how absolutely wrong you are.....if you are interested in finding out.

[puntacometa]

1. Flushing is a myth, is detrimental to the plants health (you are starving it) and does nothing to change taste or smell.

2. Hanging your buds for a month will get you some nice bone dry shake.

I am trimming buds that have been hanging in a curing area at 65% humidity since last August. They are sticky, no mold at all and they smell wonderful. Of course, fans have been in the room creating indirect air movement and it has been very carefully temperature and humidity controlled. It's not a set and forget situation. Like everything else relative to growing, it has to be carefully monitored.

Interesting you should have this opinion. Have you ever actually tried this? I'm genuinely curious.

[copobo]

65 seems to be considered the edge of danger when talking about curing. If not carefully monitored, or if too warm, it could be dangerous. From what I've read 60% is the top of the true safe range, this isn't to say you aren't telling the 100% truth.

What temp are you holding at?

[puntacometa]

65 seems to be considered the edge of danger when talking about curing. If not carefully monitored, or if too warm, it could be dangerous. From what I've read 60% is the top of the true safe range, this isn't to say you aren't telling the 100% truth.

What temp are you holding at?

Temp and humidity vary a bit. No higher than 65% but I try to ride that level. Temp no higher than 70F, but it's usually a bit cooler, between 60-65F. Indirect air movement is absolutely essential at all times. I'm down in the 4 corners and it's very dry here most of the time so unanticipated overhumidity is usually not an issue. It can be though when bringing freshly cut product into the curing room. You've really got to watch what is happening closely. If you overcompensate and allow the bud to dry to the core quickly, you get hay. [/I]Venting this humidity out is necessary sometimes. A good hygrometer is also necessary at all times. I've tried a number of variations (and the methods posted here other than my own). This one has worked for me very consistently.

We're trimming product that has been hanging since August/Sept/October when we harvested the last of our outdoor summer dirt grow. No mildew/mold. Lots of dank bouquet. I haven't had a grassy smelling or that obnoxious sweet/food grade smelling bud since I decided to quit hurrying my product to market by trimming it wet and/or drying it on screens. My product smells like pot.

[SoCoMMJ]

65 seems to be considered the edge of danger when talking about curing. If not carefully monitored, or if too warm, it could be dangerous. From what I've read 60% is the top of the true safe range, this isn't to say you aren't telling the 100% truth.

What temp are you holding at?

Agreed. We run between 55% and 60%. If it's over 60% I'm kicking in the dehumidifier.

I tend to be conservative when it comes to pushing the edges on things. There is no real benefit to chancing it with high humidity. I think that when things are done properly, our Meds smell like pot as well.

[canniwhatsis]

This thread has me thinking more deeply into the whole situation. Any way it's done, the whole process seems to take about a month to do correctly.


Personally I struggle to get my grow up to 40% humidity, so I could technically start drying in my grow? :wtf: (If there was a dark corner )

Ambient humidity in my household is DRY!! DRY!!! DRY!!!! 15-25% I have a nook under the stairs where I hang buds on the stem with most of the "Sugar" leaves on them (fans with lots of trichomes)

The buds take about a week to "Dry" they're still wet down in the core, so we de-stem and jar for about 3 weeks.

We check in periodically, and either allow the jar to vent off excess humidity, or add a small humidity packet to help increase moisture content.

Some of our early buds smelled like dry grass or hay, but more recently they stink up the whole room as soon as you open the jar!!! :S5:

P.S.

I do the growing, since the wife can kill a spider plant.

The whole dry/cure thing is something the wife is working with, I try to just nudge her in the right direction and make her feel good about what she's doing.:hippy: