Grow Talk

[ohigrow]

Personally I wet trim. I do it that way because that’s what I’ve always done, I enjoy it and look forward to doing it every time. Tonight I spent several hours trimming, smoked a few joints and watched a few episodes of dude grows. Is there a good reason to deprive myself of this joy and switch to dry trimming? What’s your preference and why?

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Discussion

[electrodave420]

I cut off any large leaves and any rough looking leaves etc. Then move into drying room, at 60 deg, 60 percent humidity for a week or two, place into large containers and trim off small stuff before it goes into jars, where it gets humidity monitored and burped til I reach around 40% humidity. Tastes pretty good and not harsh.

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[bruce_maine]

Technically I dry trim mostly just because I don’t always have a lot of time so I’m curing and trimming as I go. One thing I do a little differently is 3 days before harvest I take all the fan leaves and any sugar leaves that have turned color. I’ll leave lights on for 2 days. Then the night before harvest day I cut the lights so I can harvest while they sleep and reduce the amount of light exposure at harvest.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by  bruce_maine.

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[texasgrows]

I wet trimmed whe I first started. Now after listening to the Dude., Scotty and others I control my enviromemt better andnhanh the whole plant and dry trim.

I was able to control humidity pretty gopd but struggled with temp.

I just purchased a portable AC to put in the room when drying. Can’t wait for this round to finish so I can see how mich improvement O get in the finished flower!!!!!

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[rollin-fattys]

I dry trim. I wet trimmed my first harvest, too much cleaning of the gooey shears. I have tried dry trimming with the silicone brush thingamajig, for the birds imo. I have an ac infinity trim bowl, I put all the golf ball and bigger size nugs in, I trim the smaller stuff by hand, and larf goes in the freezer to make dry sift hash which I then process into rosin. I personally use this rosin to infuse coconut oil for gummies.

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[corwinmortac]

Im going to be doing dry trim. Removed 95% of fans and some bud site fans when I chopped down into sections. Sections are hanging on a spinning rack in a controlled tent. Once dry I’ll de-buck the buds and use an ACI 16″ trimmer like others.

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[colorado-cannatopia]

I only trim my stash when I’m about to smoke it. Otherwise I do what’s called a farmers trim. I only cut off the big leaves and leave the rest. In my environment it helps alot with the process because it’s so dry here. This also helps protect the tricomes on the bud.

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[darodguy]

I use a similar method. My growing style and location determine when I grow, so I am usually harvesting at or before the really hot season. This means that when and where I dry and cure will be indoors with air-conditioning. The mean RH is 60% in the house at that time. I try to dry as slowly as possible (usually 11- 14 days) depending on the type of harvest. I usually harvest in stages: main tops for me, and secondary buds harvested a couple of weeks later for my wife in the evenings.

When I harvest the main tops I wet trim leaving only the guardian leaves to protect the buds and during the interim between first harvest and second most of the water leaves start to change color and dry up, so I just remove them before harvest. This leaves very little to do after I remove the main branches. When they are dry then I remove anything that is not going to be consumed and buck the buds.

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