Harvesting without hay smell

The "hay" smell is actually the chlorophyll decomposing from the drying plant, which is normal to appear after around day 3 or 4 of drying weed. Once properly dried and trimmed you can jar your buds and the smell wont be there anymore. For achieving the best tasting product with least possible hay smell i found it is best to aim for a slow dry at around 55% relative humidity in a cool environment at around 18 degrees celsius / 60 fahrenheit for about 12-16 days, until the small branches on the nuggets start to snap when bending.

They smell like that sometimes. judge it by the smell after the cure.

It dried too fast to put is simply. It needs to dry slowly to preserve the profile of the flower.

Either you dry very slow without curing or you dry slow and need the cure. The smell can come back after it’s sitting for a while in a jar. But honestly the moment you break the buds down the smell should change regardless. Did you try that? I dry my weed in 3-4days to avoid problems and it always smells like shit, but when I break a bud in half my whole house smells like a weed farm

I had a bud that I left sit around just on a table to dry vs buds I had in an optimal environment to dry. The bud that was left out dried much faster and had a weird smell. The buds that dried much more slowly and optimally, smelled great. After jarring, the weird smelling bud didn’t smell anything like the others. From my experience- too fast of drying makes weird smells.

The hay smell will go away during the cure. Let it dry properly and once it’s in jars you’ll have to burp the containers twice a day for the first two to three weeks and then once a day for the next 4-6 weeks. As you burp it daily you’ll notice the hay smell will dissipate. No stress, No seeds, no sticks. Enjoy your harvest.