weed that smells

[mtbazz]

For the most part I have learned to grow pretty well....One thing however that has been elusive to me is getting a good "smell" to my harvest.

I dry slow, trim, and than cure, and even with a good three month cure my stuff does not even have one third of the odor that the commerical stuff I come across has.

Now, mine tastes as good, and gets people as stony if not stonier than the commercial stuff, but the lets face it, a large percentage of people think that the bag smell is the most important thing in judging herb.

Suggestions ? Do I need to look into different strains (currently working with dinafem critical +, BOG SB, SLS).

 

[GoodyTwoShoes]

I dry slow, trim, and than cure, and even with a good three month cure my stuff does not even have one third of the odor that the commerical stuff I come across has.

I find most commercial stuff is what I would call still wet, and wet pot smells more than if you dry it out more.
The terpenes which give it it's smell evaporate as it dries.

 

[mtbazz]

I find most commercial stuff is what I would call still wet, and wet pot smells more than if you dry it out more.
The terpenes which give it it's smell evaporate as it dries.

Ive seen that, but have also seen plenty of dried material that was stinky.

Its actually becoming somewhat of a problem for me...

 

[stonedwarrior]

I've had this problem for a while now... I'm starting to think it's low humidity in my rooms

i could be totally wrong, but ive changed everything else, humidity is the only variable that hasnt really shifted... above low

 

[mtbazz]

I've had this problem for a while now... I'm starting to think it's low humidity in my rooms

i could be totally wrong, but ive changed everything else, humidity is the only variable that hasnt really shifted... above low

I'm not sure its a humidity problem, because I have grown some strains before in low humidity that stank while growing, and when cured smelled good. Unfortunately I don't have those strains to grow anymore.

To put all this into perspective, the best strain I have grown so far in terms of taste and potency is sour bubble. Cured, it had a subdued, spicy smell, but was super stony and tasted good.

The stinkiest strain I have grown so far was some peak seeds northern berry or nothern lights (forget which) that while growing gave off a strong diesel like odor, and when cured retained that odor. The stone wasnt all that strong, and the taste wasn't all that great compared to SB.

When presented with a choice, most of my stoner friends went for the peak seeds because of the two. Friends that actually know something about herb went for the SB.

 

[legalizeDK]

try buying some new genetics and see what happens, could be that the keepers you got just dont pump out much smell.
I only grow from seed and some just dont smeel that much while other stinks

 

[messn'n'gommin']

Do you flower with HPS exclusively? PGR's or something with UV A/B (MH/CMH, cool white fluoro's, actinic, lizard lights) in flower are supposed to up terpenes somewhat.

 

[BudToker]

Don't beat yourself up.
It's the genetics.
Keep trying new strains

Good Luck!

-BT

 

[LubdaNugs]

If you find a good chem cross you're guaranteed a stinker, also check out Mosca's OTM series. The OTM's are stinky yummy goodness.

 

[Easy7]

What you feed a plant makes a difference too. I dont' use sweetners other than blackstrap, but organics go a long way to help define aromas. A good micro herd will get the dank flowing. Negative ion generators reduce smells of buds so if ya got one of those, find something else for odor control.

 

[Al Botross]

sulfur adds flavors to commercial crops. I would look into some type of sulfur additive and experiment. I dont know of and exact formula.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

I can tell you it's NOT low humidity. At least not the single culprit. I've yet to grow above 40% humidity... usually around 20%. No problems with smell in my gardens.
Couple things to look in to:

Over feeding cuts the production of turpenes.

Nitrogen is NOT your friend in flower. Studies show a direct relation between high N and low THC. I can't imagine that situation leaves the other essential oil production alone. Watch the N.

Backing the lights off the last 7 days keeps the more fragile turpenes from being destroyed by the infra-red of HID lamps.

Organic soil? Feed the microherd some molasses. No organic microherd? Skip the molasses, the plant doesn't really do much with it straight. Needs to be eaten by microherd and made available to the plant.

Temps have a LOT to do with smell. Keep nearly a 10F degree difference between day and night temps. Don't go over 75F in flower... 65-70F is what I shoot for the last week.

Feed the plant 'just enough' nutes to keep max production going without overloading it... fade the nute strength the last 3 weeks till it's around 50-100ppm.

NO PGR's Seen more f'd up meds from PGR grows than anything else. Even when done right the meds are sub-par, in my opinion.

When you get it, you'll know. The smell, resin, taste will be off the charts and it'll be like smoking flavor and taste... with no bud in it.

Stay Safe!

 

[Kcar]

Sbog and SLS are not high odor strains. That I can attest to. Not sure about
the Dinafem strain. Odor is somewhat strain specific (think Jack Herer)
But Al Botross was correct about sulfur compounds bringing out the smell.

 

[sneaky_g]

i miss the romulan i used to pay 45 dollars an eighth for back in 2005. I still contend that that era had the best (and stinkiest) weed around.. Some of my favorite stinkers were the kali mist,sensei star, and romulan ... I think i'd pay 1000-1100 QPfor the high end herbs back than.. and was making good money too.

 

[BrainSellz]

Don't beat yourself up.
It's the genetics.
Keep trying new strains

Good Luck!

-BT

I'm with you on that BT...
One of the first strains I grew was an Atomic Northern Lights and I did a horrible job however the funk was like no other.
Tasted awful...

 

[wantaknow]

green house chemdog will fix your problems

 

[ogatec2]

99% genetics

you can grow a stinky strain poorly and still end up with loud pot

you can grow a non-stinky plant 100% to its potential and you still end up with non-stinky weed

 

[Junkhead]

Its your genetics. I had the same problem getting my stuff up to speed vs the competition a couple years back. Now it takes something special to to match my stuff.

You need to look through more seeds, which should be fun.

 

[Midnight Tokar]

If you're growing for yourself and not to sell, does it really matter? As long as it's quality smoke I don't care.
The strain I have, while growing has almost no smell, after the cure it has a real nice lemony floral smell, tastes good and is nice and strong.

The bonus to all that is because it doesn't stink while growing there is one less security risk and that is a huge bonus, for me.

 

[jm420]

i agree with strain dependant,some smell and cure better than others .some got it all with a five day hang time.
Thats why we look for keepers when growing from seed
smell ,taste and bag appeal takes alot of searching to find the 1
so keep searching you'll find it