The smell isn't there??

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the smell before harvest and the smell of dried/cured buds is not always the same. I've had buds change smell from harvest to initial drying to 30 days after harvest when it finally remained consistent. fresh plant? like hay? could be a fast dry or just needs a couple weeks of curing. Some buds will smell and taste as they will once dried, others need a few weeks of curing. I don't think i've encountered anything that doesn't reach its endpoint within a month of curing, but that may not cover all of existence, obviously. If you get any sort of ammonia or pickling smell, that's a sign of microbial growth in your jar and likely sealed them up too soon. a 2-way humidipak can help, but also has limitations of how much water vapor mass it can absorb. Some of the best tasting weed i've smoked dried in 5-7 days. So, maybe the conclusions about this by the community are merely the result of fog of war and normal volatility of competent outcomes. Anecdotal knowledge is usually full of holes and misconceptions. If you can find any real scientific research on it, that'd be far more reliable than what people feel just from growing a few plants in a basement and without a lick of fundamental science knowledge. Water will evaporate through the path of least resistance. Flower has significantly more surface area due to non-flat surface compared to a leaf. So, more surface area = faster evaporation, in general. Leaves are also coated in a waxy cuticle that would slow that loss by comparison, too, but does have stomata, which would increase it, but limited. So, the untested hypothesis here is that in a dead plant water flows to the leaves because it dries faster and pulls (absorbs due to moisture gradient) moisture from the flower through the vascular system, which means it also has to traverse a couple permeable membranes on the way to the leaves. This is insane. You don't even need an experiment to rule this out. This is not the path of least resistance. Also, if it were true the leaves should be the last thing to dry which clearly does not happen. This is a great example of how anecdotal stuff is often wrong. 100% confident in something that just isn't true. Even makes it sound science-y, like the people that professed for decades that starving your plants of nutes the last 2 weeks reduces mineral content of flower- this is 100% wrong, but it was a long held belief that people still argue about today despite zero evidence to support their erroneous belief. wet trim absolutely is not relevant here except for how it impacted how fast it dried. that can easily be mitigated through proper temp/RH. My buds takes 12-13 days to dry and i wet trim. If anything i'd wager there's much less loss of trichomes when wet trimming and handing the buds than when dry. Just look at anyone's trim tray and all the 'kief' at the bottom. I barely have any of that on my plastic liner covering a counter top. Trichomes are more resistant to agitation before it gets dry/brittle and more likely to remain attached. Therefore, higher starting point and longer to degrade in any noticeable way -- as long as you hold stems while you trim... People molesting the buds might strip away more, but even that can't be assumed, because you'd have to compare apples to apples -- you'd still knock of more dry brittle ones doing the same things over-handling the buds. i don;t pretend to know why fast-drying ruins quality of buds. The human sensses cannot resolve that in any confident way. Might be able to notice an overall difference which may just be temporary. i don't see these people comparing to a control group and tightly controlling all other variabvles to reduce fasle positives. So not only are there senses unresolved for the task, but the methods for their conclusions are suspect too.

lol paint vs plant, woops.

I'm guessing it's dried to fast, tightly packed buds will take longer to dry. Normally give it a squeeze and the smell should be there after 2 week from chop. Happy farming.

Who said anything about paint?? Did you wet trim? Were they rapid dried? Both of these things can affect outcomes. Dry too fast and everything evaporates. Wet trimming means all the moisture must leave through the buds themselves, which can then remove a lot of the terpenes (aroma). Dry trimming means most of the moisture evaporates out through the leaves, meaning terpenes are less degraded which equals more aroma. Drying too fast is what usually kills the nice bud smell though.

Yeah I agree with m0use man. Once it’s in jars you have to burp the containers and cure it for at minimum three weeks. Some craft growers cure for up to 6 months. The first two weeks in jars the weed does typically smell like ass. The chlorophyll is bleeding off. Give it time and make sure to open the jars and the smell will start to come back around. Don’t open the jars and it will forever smell like hay. Also try and keep your container in the dark too. Light is no bueno for buds.

Use Boveda after drying it the right way. How did you dried it?

fresh paint.... hum... not great. Maybe it needs more air drying time or burping. depending how it was dried, like temps and light and RH it can affect the end products aroma. High temps will evaporate the terps or the armors off faster then normal. High RH will allow other microbes to grow and maybe rot the buds. Ideal dry time is around 7-14 days at 18-20c and 55% RH in complete darkness. I myself can not nail all these details and will normally be drying in something like 24c 60%RH and complete darkness and they turn out a+ Also depending what was in te jar before hand can alter the smells. and if your not burping them, letting em off gas in the cure it will mess up the smells. I like to burp once or twice a day first week or cure then after that about once a week. If they smell like ammonia or cat piss, it need more dry time and they where to wet going in. I also use a humidiy pack for ease of use. Get the salt based ones boveda. not integra boost or any glycerin ones. they sucks. I would guess paint smell might be from over dry going in or they might be moldly somewhere. take em out and inspect em. break a few open. If u see white/gray fuzz maybe mold. Tends to make em mushy too.