nashobaTHC
- 463
- 143
Ive only used mine wet but agree 100% with your assessment.Got to borrow a Lumo-X 16 trimming machine after years and years of hand trimming pounds of buds and I LIKE IT! Trimmed up about 4oz fresh cut buds in about 10 minutes that would have taken me about 1+ hours manually with snips. Before and after pics are obvious. Finished buds put on mesh layer for 4-5 days drying. Trimmings will go into my dry ice hash processing. Tomorrow I plan to harvest another 4oz buds on a late season Flagship Blueberry that’s survived rain, wind, and temps in mid 30s without bud rot or PM. I also plan on changing blades to trim fully dried buds after finishing the fresh cut buds. I’ll let you know how dry trimming works compared to wet trimming. If it works half as good on dry buds as on wet, I’ll be thrilled for the time and wrist savings.
BTW…this is not an endorsement of this particular model but is an endorsement of time saving machines if you have lots to trim and little or no help.
Thisi just tried to make hash oil and bubble hash with machine trim a friend gave me and i wouldn’t waste my time again on it and i tried hard to get it good and nope wouldn’t do it,, the machine breaks up plant material to finely and it damages most of all the trichomes causing that oil to stick too plant material..
it’s waaay to rough on the trichomes.. i wouldn’t use one for any reason..
"Causing the oil to stick to the plant material. "i just tried to make hash oil and bubble hash with machine trim a friend gave me and i wouldn’t waste my time again on it and i tried hard to get it good and nope wouldn’t do it,, the machine breaks up plant material to finely and it damages most of all the trichomes causing that oil to stick too plant material..
it’s waaay to rough on the trichomes.. i wouldn’t use one for any reason..
that statement is true.."Causing the oil to stick to the plant material. "
That statement makes absolutely no sence.
Maybe you should try again.
I wouldn't harvest without one, saves me about 3 days of trimming. I can trim a plant in 2 hours that would have taken 8 hrs by hand. Lots of tricomes to go around
I see the pics above are trimming when wet. I'd think better results would come from dried buds wouldn't it?...I could see the leaf crumbling off dry....but wet?.....Has any one done that with dry material? I've seen old Cali guys use 50 gal drums with some baffles inside and they slowly tumbled the raw dried weed.....Did a pretty good job and they made hash out of the debris.....It looked good to meI had one, threw it away for the reasons Gnick states.
IMO - it doesn't do anything well, just fast and messy. Sorry if I am being contrarian.
And yeah - oil sticks to the damn plant material. Busted trichomes get everywhere on everything. Not sure what is hard to understand about that. The first several ounces are OK, but by the time you get to a pound the thing is completely useless.
I imagine it would be better on dry yes. Maybe my issue is I always cut the larf off before it grows and just have colas. To me, it seems like this device would only speed up the harvest on popcorn or undesirables, but colas need scissors IMO. All that effort in a grow to only half ass it on the trimming - not for me.I see the pics above are trimming when wet. I'd think better results would come from dried buds wouldn't it?...I could see the leaf crumbling off dry....but wet?.....Has any one done that with dry material? I've seen old Cali guys use 50 gal drums with some baffles inside and they slowly tumbled the raw dried weed.....Did a pretty good job and they made hash out of the debris.....It looked good to me
I end up having a bit of trimming to do when they're done. I usually stand and pluck all the big stuff off then bend over branches and do them individually, listing to tunes in between joints, a few hours I can get most of it off and I smoke rough anyways no point getting it too pretty its just going to be ash shortly. afterwards....Gelato @ 11 weeksI imagine it would be better on dry yes. Maybe my issue is I always cut the larf off before it grows and just have colas. To me, it seems like this device would only speed up the harvest on popcorn or undesirables, but colas need scissors IMO. All that effort in a grow to only half ass it on the trimming - not for me.
through the 220? is that from the 25 or 45 bag?Yesterday’s tomorrow is today so I trimmed up some fully dried coarse cut buds using the Lumo-16 and the serrated blade for dry buds. As with wet buds the Lumo turned a 1.5 hr hand trim job into a 10 minute job at the expense of a bowlful of trim and kief.
Pics:
1 & 2 show main colas before and after de-stemming.
3 & 4 show mains on trimmer and post trimming results.
4 & 5 show secondary buds before and after trimming.
6 & 7 shows machine trim and some very kick ass kief.
I was able to scrape the bowl for about a gram of fine kief. I took the dried trimmings and ran several batches through my 220 micron dry ice hash bag and got 3 grams of very nice kief.
I had one of those moments when I sprinkled a bit in a bowl, hit it, coughed in tasty surprise and said WOW, that’s gooood.
The trimmed buds will cure in jars for a couple weeks and I’ll let you know how that turns out.
I’m convinced that this and similar machines are great for dealing with volume. For just a couple plants, hand trimming still rocks.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?