I have never experienced the "hay" smell which IMHO is nothing more than improperly dried flowers that were jarred too soon, or improperly burped jars. Yes the "fresh" bouquet exhibited during growth will fade somewhat after being jarred but, you should definitely see/smell the difference the cure is doing in developing the "true" bouquet of your buds.i don’t know, but it may; if the trichomes are still developing by being able to have enough moisture (when cured properly), and whatever activity is happening in there is developing positive chemical changes like acids to cannibinoids or terpene expression (i read and have observed the smell change when in the plant and while being wet trimmed from fruity etc. to “hay” or whatever that smell is. the good smells are said to come back i think (SOMEONE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG I DO NOT WANT TO SPREAD MISINFORMATION! thanks) ; then seemingly it would develop better kief/trichomes; especially if not wet trimmed.
i’ve seen it said that cured smell is even better than fresh when done right too. also correct me if wrong please
Some buds that smelled like Simple Green or another cleaner were bagged for a while and kept in a cool closet, in the hope that the smell might change. It did not and they were dry sifted anyways. The smell was in fact much more concentrated in the leaf than the hash - the smell is not being produced at the trichomes. The curing action ate all the remaining water and the very dry and crumbly buds did produce lots of material but it was much stalkier than usual, even the 150-200 mesh material was all jumbled stalks. Yield is yield for the hash maker, but I'm not so interested in stalks. It seems that everyone is breeding for long thick stalks (LOOK AT ALL THAT WHITE! FUCK YEAH!!!) instead of big heads, and the stalks come off easier over time. Sensi's NL5xHaze used to have particularly short squat trichomes. Much prefer the short fat bulbous trichs.
The terps where lost in the drying process.
Some Hash requires the sessqua terps to die back a bit. Or the Hash will be coughy and harsh
The actually sun dry too burn off some terps.
Like ester said a while back they been doing this for thousands of years, weather they understand what and why is another matter.
Which is exactly why people use automated curing. No messing and flipping bins. And once it's cured, it's purged with Nitrogen for long term storage. Open a bucket, jar or bin 6 months later and you get hit in the face with those wonderful aromas. No need to squeeze or grind the buds to get the last remaining Terps out.I assume that the trichomes also contain cellular water that evaporates. It may be this that causes shrinkage rather than losing volatile organics.
Whatever was lost was not what I wanted lost. The sesquiterpenes are the odor molecules that remain longest. The molecules that remain after hanging in air in the dark for 2-3 weeks are substantially retained at 6 months if not handled. Bags and jars change nothing except for the handling.
Hash makers know nothing except how to maximize yields. Beating whole plants on a screen (what I should have done) is only so much of an art. Imported hash was common in the early 80's, when my first outdoor finger hash blew it away.
https://youtu.be/Z0KYrb61Eyc
One nice video for hashish disscusion
1),The smell was in fact much more concentrated in the leaf than the hash - 2),the smell is not being produced at the trichomes.