[jmystro]

If you want to trim the plant while it’s still alive then you’d better make sure when you cut a branch or leaf that nothing oozes out. Your plant’s internal plumbing should not be pumping at harvest. If it is… you’re doing it wrong. Don’t water the last 5-7 days before harvest and harvest in middle to end of dark cycle. Guttation from flowers is also a concern with a saturated rhizosphere at harvest. You should be drying in a controlled environment. I don’t care where you live or what the conditions are like outside. If you truly have a controlled environment, then you have no reason to compromise the process. dead or alive, the trichomes are coming with me. The speed of the drying process has more to do with the environment than any amount of bio-mass left on while drying.

I like to have fresh frozen trim to process and fresh scissor scrapings to put in the blunts as I trim as my reward. You do you.