Not really @Bfreezy when you burp how long do you leave the jar open for my friend
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When it went into the jars it would stabilize around 65 or 66 percent humidity, so I’d leave it open for 20 minutes or even an hour. Once the humidity was down to 62, I’d only have them open for a minute or two. Now into the second week of curing, they’re at 60% and I burp them just for a moment every second or third day
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@Bfreezy I think you may have burp to much or to wet going in if temperatures and humidity is good that’s the only thing I can think of did you trim well or alot of leaves still on
Nah, it’s trimmed up nice and tight. I actually just got finished burping it and the hay smell is bad as ever. To me it doesn’t even smell like weed. I don’t get it
My plant is on day 11 or 12 of hanging. The tent is way more cannabis smelling now but still has strong hay odor. However, the buds don’t smell like hay at all. Is there a way you can hang them back up or put in one of those basket hanging things in a tent with 60-62% humidity and let them go longer in open air with circulation? Then let it cure in the tent the time you’d be in the jar could maybe save it.
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I probably could. Im not sure i understand why that would help though. Mind explaining?
I figure if its getting worse in the jar or not batter then maybe being back in the tent might help. I dont have any evidence to say it will but might be worth a try.
If you have your exhaust going on say the lowest setting and air flowing around it might help extract more of the hay smell than trap it in a jar to maybe slowly go with burping. Also more oxygen which i think is how the chlorophyll gets broken down by microbes. So keeping the tent close to jar parameters would allow it to cure still. That and the longer mine has stayed in the tent the less i notice the hay overall as its off gassed and extracted.
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Ah I see what you’re saying. Yea, I’m kinda past the point where I’m holding on to hope that it’ll get better
I agree with @Serf that’s the only thing i can think of not dry enough i would try laying it out on flat surface let lay out for awhile if its dry enough roll a joint out of it see how it smokes my friend happy growing
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If it’s steadily been at 60% humidity in the jar, isn’t that an indication that it’s dry enough? Honestly, it smokes fine. The taste is ok, not great but def better than some I’ve had. But yea it burns fine. What’s weird is that it actually tasted better when I took a fresh bud off the still living plant. On the day of harvest, before I cut it down I snipped one bud off and put it in a joint just for the hell of it and it tasted AWESOME.
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I guess. I’m just trying to think of what I can do next time. My temperatures may have been on the low side and my humidity was low for certain. I didn’t think they were so far out of the parameters that it barely smells recognizable as weed, but maybe so. Next grow will start in probably May. It’s frustrating growing “indoors” but still having such a hard time controlling the environment. Wish I had money to really insulate the shed but I have got to make the best of what I’ve got. Thanks for helping me with all this
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Your welcome @Bfreezy my friend happy growing
Best thing I learned over the years with drying and curing. If the stem snaps it’s already a bit to dry.
You want to find the point right before the snap 
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Welcome to the family @SwabianE my friend happy growing
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I grow in a not so well insulated shed also. I made a 3x4 room inside the shed and insulated that only, at the time. With in the past month i added some of that expanding foam stuff to gaps and sealed one of the doors up on the double doors that swing out. Now only one door opens, and i sealed that door buy closing it, spraying the expand foam in the gaps around the door, then when it hardened i cut off the excess foam and cut the door free so that foam still fills the gaps and i can open the door.
I mention all this because i too deal with the problem of curing in a stable environment, and last grow i basically made a carpenter trash bag curing area inside my room that blocked the majority of the light, and i piped my humidifer up to it to help relegate the humidity in the trash bag box i made.
Even with my efforts, i still got a little too dry into the 48%rh with a moisture meter. I popped the buds in grove bags and they got better after a recommendation from @Borderryan22 to throw a fresh leaf in with them helped correct the relative humidity in the grove bags. Since then, i have added broveda humidity packs to my grove bags for the winter months. You can probably pick some up at your local smoke shop. Adding them to my dryer buds, brought them up too 62%rh and they taste, feel and smell great now!! 
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Perfectly nornal. Takes a bit longer fornthe chlorophyl to escape the plants which is the hay smell. Grove bags work a bit quicker because you dont have to burp them and burping with jars is the only way the chlorophyl can escape the jar. I switched to grove bags for this reason and would never go back to jars my flower tends to come out 10/10 for terps every time
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If it was too dry, could it still read 65% humidity upon putting it into a jar? That’s what happened. It’s come down to 60 after leaving the buds out to dry so I’m happy with that. Still smells like hay though
Yea I’ve got the boveda packs but decided not to use them because in the jar it’s been stable at 60%
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Man I dunno, it’s been curing in a jar for 21 days now. Not at all confident that that smells going to go away. I did put some in a grove bag just to experiment, but it’s been sitting at 65% humidity so I’m not sure what to expect once I open it back up. It’s heat sealed so I’m just gonna leave it in there for another month and see what happens
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