Sweet & Delicious Second DWC Grow

I've had this same issue before and that was on my first grow and now this time when I had a clipped off bud and tested it had that "hay" smell. I still have my plant and worried this will happen when I chop it down. The nug tested was from an accidental branch snap in week 7 of flowering and was before any flushing could begin and was dried out fairly fast, within 4 days. I had a few ideas on why that "hay' smell was there and it was because the bud was full of nutrients or I thought I had pin pointed it to that fact it was coming from the leaves still left on during the drying process and the leaves that can't be plucked from inside the bud, it's like a bud to leaf ratio and the longer you waited to let bud grow or leafs die off whatever it was, too fresh or too early in the season weed.