[getlifted]

I’ve done both and don’t enjoy either of them! But for me personally it’s about the situation of my environment, time of year, etc.. if my basement is hot and humid I’ll wet trim but if my conditions are on point I’ll leave it alone I think the leaves protect the trichomes in the right conditions

[dales_dankness]

I personally dry trim but I use to wet trim and I understand the joy it brings you. But wet trimming can be more messy and not the best practices for you post harvest processing. I’m not saying it’s bad but I just listen to a Grow cast episode on this it was with ATG acres you might want to check out.the guy kinda takes post harvest to some extremes but had some good knowledge on the subject. And he was talking about certain gases being released when wet trimming they aren’t the best for your buds. If anything it’s a fun listen to check out. Anyways have a blast with your harvest and a wonderful day out there.

[newleaf]

I find that thricomes seem to harden off after a proper dry. Making it less destructive when you trim. @jmystro had a good scientific explanation of what happens when thricomes start to cure.

[jmystro]

The waxy outer shell of a trichome is called the cuticle. We dry bud and ‘cure’ oxidize the cuticle. The waxy membrane is soft when it forms on a live plant and hardens as it oxidizes during the drying process.

[desertdude317]

[chonkynugz]

It depends. I don’t really trim at all. I pull the fan leaves, dry, cure, and leave anything that one would normally dry trim on the bud to protect the trichomes. I trim off the sugar leaves if I smoke it, or leave them if I am processing it for hash.

I would wet trim if your buds are super chonky (Fat). It will decrease the chance of mold. I’d also wet trim if RH is an issue where you are drying.

I used to dry trim only for bag appeal. I give everything away now. People don’t get the buds if they complain about the (lack of) trim.

[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.

[FukYooPeiMei]

You are dropping that science. I’m trying out fresh frozen that I wet trimmed. It’s been in the freezer for about 3 weeks. About how long should it take to fully dry this way? These buds were dense and thick like glade cans. I’m guessing it would take longer but I still don’t want to eff up a QP of frozen flower. Any suggestions or tips?

• This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by  FukYooPeiMei.

[jmystro]

Dry? Fresh frozen material is not dried and doesn’t need to be stored. Freeze it, then process it.

[sasquatchimo]

Wet trim here in Ohio. Plenty of humidity for me, so no need to procrastinate. I do keep the small leaflets around the bud on. Barn dry my outdoor like tobacco in the fall. Air conditioned basement for indo. I dry longer than most. The buds will dry, then get moist again, then dry. Noticed shit gets real after second dry off. This may take me two, sometimes three weeks or more. No rush. It’s all good in Hollywood after that. I think there are diminishing returns trying to keep perfect climate conditions to salvage terps. As long as moisture is controlled, we cool. That’s just my style. Didn’t say it was the Gospel, but it’s worked for nearly 30 years, for me.

[ikelikeweed]

Wet trim fan leaves and any big sugar leaves with a stem. Dry trim the tops and bigger buds by hand, smaller buds go into trim bag for a tumble.

[covert_gropher]

I dry trim. NW Australia, so you know

I hang them as branches or full plants depending on their size. 7-10 days drying, crispy fan leaves removed while still hanging.

then I buck all the buds off and put them through my tumble trimmer on a slow rev.

the trim I get I then run through a pollinator tumbler and turn that into concentrate for vape carts or edibles.

[paddy-o-toker]

I also live in a very wet humid island climate in an attic. I am constantly fighting high humidity, and humidity swings. The AC infinity system (cloudline6) was a game changer for me when it came out.

I dry trim after I full plant(no fan leaves) dry in my smaller veg tent with exhaust perimeters set to 60, a dehumidifier set to 60 and the 9” circulation fan (metal bladed) pointed at the floor/wall and away from the buds. 10 to 14 days drying depending on the time of year and how high the humid it is that time of year.

As always the mighty JMystro, for the win!

[big-bad-kells]

I used to wet trim now I dry trim. The less I touch the buds, the better. I grow in a 2x2x4 so I don’t have the density or humidity to worry about bud rot