Question about drying am I done?

My grow/dry room temps and rh are very similar with light air circulation and I go 14-21 days, I smoke test for silky smoothness rather than the "snap". Disclaimer: I trim and dry in the pot.

 

sounds about ready. You could fill up one jar and check it the next day. It’s best to jar early and then burp/ leave out for more time as needed. wait to long and your fucked.

 

I wish I could do a master delete on every site on the entire internet with that piece of bad advice.
Your already way to dry.
Jar it now and pray it's still above 55% humidity.
I hang dry just until the smallest nugs start to firm up then it all gets stripped off the branches. The big colas all chopped up into thumb size chunks and slow dried.

777 is the ideal dry that being 7 days at 70 % humidity and 70 degrees. You want to end up around 62% at the end of 7 days. I don't have that kind of controlled space so I learned to be a bit inventive.

Days exposed..

Nights stacked in a closed container to slow the dry.
Every day I reduced the exposure time about an hour. The 7th day they will only need about an hour exposure.

What Factors a Cause an "Earth" Smell
Modify as needed for your local conditions.
Think of it like cooking a steak, You can't un-cook meat and you can't un-dry cannabis. No do-overs. You only get one shot at getting it right. To slow and you risk mold. To fast and it's hot and harsh, Smokes like liquid fire and smells like mowed lawn clippings.

My prime harvest season coincides with our annual wind event. Hot dry desert winds blast over the Los Angeles area mid to late Oct and raises hell with my dry. It was a lot of research and experimentation before I got things under control and got repeatable quality cured Cannabis.


BNW

 

Have only dried/cured 1 run but I tried to keep as close to BNw as possible. Mine were 62-65% humidity after 1 day in jars, anything higher went back into the paper bags. Been 6 weeks now and I have to say : I do grow some tasty weed. . Have shared with a few and have had only compliments. Thanks BNw!

 

It was my extreme local conditions that forced me to learn exactly what was going wrong with every dry I was doing. I grow continuously so 4 harvests per year and it was all great smelling when trimmed and crap a week later when dried.

The slow dry was the key to it all. Once I started to slow the way it dried all my issues vanished.
In our high heat and single digit humidity my hanging time can be as short as just 24 hours before the small nugs are getting crisp and down it comes.

BNW

 

I find drying difficult also where I live, the best room I have found was my veg room, always around 70% RH and temps are very well kept around 70 to 74. I personally wet trim down to each branch and hang them according to size, ive seen as low as 48 hours with small nuts and as long as 10 days with tops. Once it hits jars and a month later the smell cannot be contained. I smell the hay smell within a day and by a week the true aroma is about, jar it and the hay smell is back and forth for a 3 to 5 week span of curing. After that, good luck having even a jar contain the aroma.

 

You do nice trimming! I wish I trimmed that well!

Fanman

 

Yes, I had a few jars that smelled like a fresh cut lawn for a month, patience is the key to a successful dry and cure. My 1st go at it I harvested a week early on one and way late on another, 2nd time I tried different ways to dry faster and found a longer cure was needed and risked mold issues. Last run was flawlessly dried and cured. I didn't have a desire to consume my last run so quickly and gave it ample time hanging and within a week in a jar it stunk so bad the jar didn't help at all to mask odor. It was great.