The constantly changing smell of cannabis plants as they grow

[greensprout]

Does anyone else smell their young plants on a daily/hourly basis?
Pick up a young plant and stick your nose right in there! Sometimes cut grass, sometimes pine, sometimes minty, sometimes the linalool is strong and other times nothing at all. Sometimes I take a lungfull of linalool and the next breath in is just cut-grass, as if the linalool was released in a limited amount.
Do they cycle rapidly through different stages of terpene growth every few hours?
As some of you know I harvest fresh young plants for medicinal use, and I'm now trying to experiment with harvesting at the exact moment when a

particular terpene smells strongest.
 

[hash72]

I turn my plants around on my knees face touching my plants occasionally cant help but get the strong smell, my favourite aroma is from the curing jars

[GreenVision]

I've never put this much thought into it, but there is without a doubt various smells even in young plants. 

 

I usually just pick up on strength of smell rather than the actual type of smell. There is a general school of thought that a good smell in younger vegging male plants can indicate it could carry good Stud potential, I don't follow that too firmly myself but it is a thing. 

 

As it stands though I usually mark off anything that has a nice smell early on and to this day I have yet to see a pattern between nice smell young equalling good plant in flower. In short I personally don't think it's definitive that a good smell in veg will give good Terpenes in bloom. 

[greensprout]

2 hours ago, GreenVision said:

In short I personally don't think it's definitive that a good smell in veg will give good Terpenes in bloom. 

I'm only growing to 4 leaf nodes for medicine, but I think it's also about temperature. When the plants are cooler they don't smell half as much. I grow at room temp with no tent and they can be completely odorless when it's cooler. I wonder if this means they hold on to the terpenes more when cold, so harvesting fresh leaves cold means getting more medicine from the plant?

[JJJ]

I've stopped bending down and sniffing my plants.  Too many times have I managed to suck the leaves right up my nose. 

[greensprout]

I did that yesterday too