Use sachets of tea or coffee beans Lemon, lavender, mint and Earl Grey tea all have strong enough scents when aerated that putting a few sachets of tea inside or around your storage container may help neutralize smells.
Smoking outdoors will reduce the chance of smelling like bud after a smoke. Increased airflow will move the terpenes away from your body, especially if you face away from the wind.
When you smoke indoors, your second-hand smoke lingers in the air. You can't see or smell it, but it's there. Every time you smoke, you breathe out second-hand smoke. The particles are so small 85% of them are invisible and odourless.
Cannabis growers use a neem oil foliar spray together with aloe vera juice and some type of emulsifier like potassium silicate to dissolve the oil. Weekly sprays during the vegetative phase can strengthen plants and increase their resistance against pests and pathogens.
How Do You Apply Baking Soda to Plants? As a versatile substance in a cultivator's arsenal, baking soda can be applied as a diluted foliar spray or used directly in the soil. Furthermore, it can be used post-harvest to help remove contaminants from your buds (more on this below).
This plant produces a pungent, skunk-like odor that is pleasing to some but repulsive to others. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Omega have discovered a new family of prenylated volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) that give cannabis its characteristic skunky aroma.
Having some bud with a good moisture content can help refresh overly dried cannabis flowers. Just place the fresh nugs in with your dried-out stash and check back in a day or so. This method can help keep the same desirable cannabis scent over the fruit peel method.
Hang drying in a grow tent or closet also serves as a low-cost method. Remove entire branches from your plants, trim the sugar leaves, and hang them upside down. In a bigger drying space, you can use a fan to keep air moving freely. Racks also work well when you need to dry large quantities of bud.
Spraying is the most common way to provide water for young cannabis plants. Their roots are extremely vulnerable at this stage and too much water could damage them. As the roots grow and become more elaborate, they will also become more resilient, but this young stage is where you should be the most careful.
Rehydrate With Moist Bread
This is one of the simplest ways to rehydrate your stash. Simply moisten a piece of bread but make sure you don't soak it. Place the bread and the dry buds in an airtight container for 1-2 hours to allow the moisture to distribute itself. Check it and repeat the process if necessary.
Treating Powdery Mildew
Other alternatives include spraying marijuana plants with different oils, such as, neem, sesame or fish oil. These sprays also help combat fungal attacks. The best measure is to use milk spray mixed with water in a 40:60 ratio.
Lack of light is perhaps the most common reason that cannabis produces fluffy, light buds. You may have noticed the lower, puny 'popcorn' bud sites that form below the main canopy. Often these buds are discarded by growers allowing the plant to focus biochemical energy on the main blooms.
Curing Your Cannabis: A Step-By-Step Guide
Again, you can use Mason jars, but turkey bags work so well because they're clear and large enough to hold more than a pound of buds. They also breathe a little better than Mason jars allow.
While not mandatory, it's definitely a good idea to wash cannabis flower buds that were grown outside. The process reduces outdoor air pollutants that may have accumulated on the buds such as dirt, dust, pollen, toxic wildfire ash, caterpillar poop, insects, bird debris, and other particulate matter.
If you over-dry your cannabis, it'll be more likely to go moldy, so it's important to monitor the drying process closely. If your buds are too dry, they'll be more likely to crumble when you try to break them up for smoking, so it's important to take them out of the drying chamber before they become too dry.
An ideal time to dry cannabis is around 5-7 days. However, the time it takes to reach the ideal dryness (explained below) will vary depending on your climate and drying location. Also, the condition of your plant will play a role, such as how fat the buds are, how many fan leaves are still attached, and so on.
In general, your bud is ready to start the curing process when the stem at the base of the bud easily snaps when bent, and the bud feels dry yet spongy. Here are some of the basics when it comes to how to cure weed. Glass is the ideal container when curing cannabis, as it will leave no aroma on your flower.
Heat + Unmoving Air During Drying – Buds tend to smell like hay or be harsh to smoke or vape when they are exposed to warm temperatures along with stagnant, unmoving air during the drying process. This causes uneven drying conditions and invites invisible or visible mold to grow.
Your current drying materials are good enough, but wrap the buds up in the paper towel and place them in front of the fan, then replace the paper towel every couple of hours. You can also put your nugs in an uncovered jar of rice for a day, then break them up and let them air out for a few more hours.
Late flowering / Ripening stage – week 6 to harvest
In the last few weeks, buds gain the most weight. They are sticky to the touch and can be very smelly.
Many sugar or carbohydrate-based supplements claim to improve the smell/taste/sweetness of buds. A cheap alternative to expensive sugar-based bloom boosting supplements is blackstrap molasses. Giving this to your plants for the last few weeks before harvest can help them get bigger and smell/taste better.