This could get long winded since im baked and like to explain things. So this was my second grow as a experiment before i spend money on beans. I started with 2 unknown plants from bagseed. The first one was chopped at the first sign of being male. Number 2 was growing awesome, it had female preflowers everywhere and responded awesome to the 12/12 switch. Then somewhere between 20-30 days into flowering it hermied on me. At the beginning it was slow and i was picking nanners with a tweezers. It started getting out of control so at about 60days i chopped it. Ended up with 58.6 grams in jars. Harvest & Cure I hung all the fresh cut branches with all the fan leafs removed on a string in a pitch black room with no windows and a small fan on the floor not blowing right on the bud. As they started to dry i noticed that the buds that i thought were pretty dense were now pretty wispy! So after hanging i decided day 6 was time to trim and jar. I think this is where the problem started. About half the buds were so dry they were almost crumbling in my fingers trying to trim them. I did the best i could and kept the buds with nanners separate from the ones that appeared unaffected. I should mention the pollen affected but was the more dry bud. So now im 7 days after being in jars that have been kept in the dark cool place and have been opened once a day for 45 mins or so. The room will smell like weed and if you sniff in the jars it actually smells like sour cream strain, but to pull a bud out and smell it your hit with the dry grass/hay smell. And yes they taste like it to. Which brings me to the topic did i ruin it or could it just have been shit to begin with since it hermied, or am i just impatient
Close the jars for like a whole day, then go back to burping them again. Don't do it on a set schedule, feel for the level of moisture, and constantly smoke samples so you can be sure of the exact levels of moisture. I say weed is good and dry when it grinds up well in the grinder and doesn't get all stringy or weird or clumpy in there. Over a long enough period of time, all that hay-plant-green smell will go away and your bud will be stinky and good.
Well, the overdry didn't actually reduce potency so you don't have to worry about that part, but you're probably not going to get rid of the hay smell/taste too soon. Uncured buds will have that smell/taste, which normally curing would fix pretty quickly, but since they were hung out for too long it might have lost some of those qualities... it will definitely get better, but nothing like it should have been.
your humidity probably dried them out fast, Its winter so RH is like 35%. I keep mine to 55%, i wait for them to feel the hint of dry, put them in the mason jars burp the jars to my pleasing for about 2 weeks. This is like the most important. Hell, im cutting down a 6ft sourcream today, bud looks so nice, even has purple in it. Which is weird for sourcream. Shit i wanna throw a bud in the micro, but its just ruining it. You waited this long, 1-2 weeks not gonna hurt. when you cure is when you bring the smell back.