Hello From Northern California

[DaveS]

Saying hello to the peeps here. Long time surfer first time poster.

Been growing 5 years so still a novice. All outdoor in geo pots.
Im in the sierra foothills in the Nevada City Grass Valley area and I have access to irrigation water that feeds so much of California and the country.
I typically grow 3-4 plants a year starting from clones, although this year I started from seed.
I start with a mix of ocean forest and happy frog and have been experimenting with different fertilizers with the goal of staying as close to organic as I can.

I've had what I would consider outrageous success considering I know nothing about anything and am far from a green thumb.

I did this because I am a cancer survivor with lingering pain in the surgery area and I'd far rather make my own remedy than use prescriptions.
I haven't yet leaned to make butter or gummies but thats coming.

After the first 2 seasons of being buried in trim and dry/cure jail I made some investments in a mechanical trimmer (twister t6) to help speed this process up as well as hopefully give me a better product in the long run.

On the cure front the first 4 years I combined the drying and curing then jarred and burped, but this season I invested in 2 cure pucks and cured inside of totes using stackable trays.

I will write about my experience with these devices later in different forums and try share what little I've learned and what has worked for me.

Nice to meet you and best of luck to you all!

 

[ArtfulCodger]

Welcome to The Farm!

 

[Phyto]

Welcome, another Nor-Cal guy here! I'm inland on an offshoot of SF bay (Napa/Vallejo) but also have a place near Mt Lassen.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Saying hello to the peeps here. Long time surfer first time poster.

Been growing 5 years so still a novice. All outdoor in geo pots.
Im in the sierra foothills in the Nevada City Grass Valley area and I have access to irrigation water that feeds so much of California and the country.
I typically grow 3-4 plants a year starting from clones, although this year I started from seed.
I start with a mix of ocean forest and happy frog and have been experimenting with different fertilizers with the goal of staying as close to organic as I can.

I've had what I would consider outrageous success considering I know nothing about anything and am far from a green thumb.

I did this because I am a cancer survivor with lingering pain in the surgery area and I'd far rather make my own remedy than use prescriptions.
I haven't yet leaned to make butter or gummies but thats coming.

After the first 2 seasons of being buried in trim and dry/cure jail I made some investments in a mechanical trimmer (twister t6) to help speed this process up as well as hopefully give me a better product in the long run.

On the cure front the first 4 years I combined the drying and curing then jarred and burped, but this season I invested in 2 cure pucks and cured inside of totes using stackable trays.

I will write about my experience with these devices later in different forums and try share what little I've learned and what has worked for me.

Nice to meet you and best of luck to you all!

In down in So Cal. Welcome to the farm. Glad you found relief with weed! I recreationally use Marijuana for medical benefit.

Hey, about that Twister T6... I have a little raffle barrel. Taking a look at your machine, you think I might be able to use my drum to get any kind of comparable trim? It's got a hand crank but I could hook it to a rotisserie. I'd love to make the job of trimming easier, the little horizontal hand crank ones that cost about $100 will supposedly damage trichomes and don't handle sticky buds very well.

 

[DaveS]

In down in So Cal. Welcome to the farm. Glad you found relief with weed! I recreationally use Marijuana for medical benefit.

Hey, about that Twister T6... I have a little raffle barrel. Taking a look at your machine, you think I might be able to use my drum to get any kind of comparable trim? It's got a hand crank but I could hook it to a rotisserie. I'd love to make the job of trimming easier, the little horizontal hand crank ones that cost about $100 will supposedly damage trichomes and don't handle sticky buds very well.

Hi there! Lived most of my adult life in So Cal and there is lots I miss.

On the raffle barrel I doubt you will get a comparable trim.

If you combine the rotation of the tunnel in a T6 with the rotation of the blades with the added suction pulling the flower into the mechanism you'll get something "like" 19,000 cut strokes in the average time it takes to traverse the tunnel. The SS tunnel doesn't have a large diameter so the buds dont fall far or hard onto the bottom of the tube so it's pretty gentle on the flower. The T6 allows you to work with a full range of moisture from right off the plant to totally dry so you can pretty much use it at whatever stage in the harvest/ cure you want. It will require cleaning but not before it processes a huge amount.

To give you an idea of its speed a buddy and I ran a completely full bucked 27G tote through it last night twice in 40 minutes.

Like you said it gets sticky if you trim too wet, so you have to wait for it to dry out a bit.
Even if the raffle barrels "band" cuts were equivalent to the blade cuts - the raffle style machines are going to require you to spin that drum forever to get that number of cuts, the bud doenst get pulled onto the cutting surface and if you did spin it forever and your flowers are falling over and over again contributing to further trichome loss with some just breaking apart, you dont really have a wet trim option.

Can you get a leg up on a hand trim with it - sure, but I don't see how it could be comparable.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Hi there! Lived most of my adult life in So Cal and there is lots I miss.

On the raffle barrel I doubt you will get a comparable trim.

If you combine the rotation of the tunnel in a T6 with the rotation of the blades with the added suction pulling the flower into the mechanism you'll get something "like" 19,000 cut strokes in the average time it takes to traverse the tunnel. The SS tunnel doesn't have a large diameter so the buds dont fall far or hard onto the bottom of the tube so it's pretty gentle on the flower. The T6 allows you to work with a full range of moisture from right off the plant to totally dry so you can pretty much use it at whatever stage in the harvest/ cure you want. It will require cleaning but not before it processes a huge amount.

To give you an idea of its speed a buddy and I ran a completely full bucked 27G tote through it last night twice in 40 minutes.

Like you said it gets sticky if you trim too wet, so you have to wait for it to dry out a bit.
Even if the raffle barrels "band" cuts were equivalent to the blade cuts - the raffle style machines are going to require you to spin that drum forever to get that number of cuts, the bud doenst get pulled onto the cutting surface and if you did spin it forever and your flowers are falling over and over again contributing to further trichome loss with some just breaking apart, you dont really have a wet trim option.

Can you get a leg up on a hand trim with it - sure, but I don't see how it could be comparable.

Well it looks like I'll be suffering Carpal Tunnel then

 

[DaveS]

Well it looks like I'll be suffering Carpal Tunnel then

Sorry man....If you were local Id run off some batches for you.

I like the rotisserie idea.

This thing has been a boon to all my buddies.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Sorry man....If you were local Id run off some batches for you.

I like the rotisserie idea.

This thing has been a boon to all my buddies.

You just reminded me, it was around 2017 a new pot store had opened up near my office and they bought a high end rosin press that they made available to customers to use. That was back when we were all still into the whole medical co-op way of thinking.

I think that would be a pretty good gimmick for a dispensary. Come in and spend a hundred bucks on product and we will let you use our in house power trimmer!

 

[DaveS]

You just reminded me, it was around 2017 a new pot store had opened up near my office and they bought a high end rosin press that they made available to customers to use. That was back when we were all still into the whole medical co-op way of thinking.

I think that would be a pretty good gimmick for a dispensary. Come in and spend a hundred bucks on product and we will let you use our in house power trimmer!

There are places here that rent trim machines.

It's common to be able to rent a sling band type machine or raffle type machine, but not so much a tunnel trimmer. It's really easy to completely trash the thing if you set it up and run it wrong.

It's also a lot of cleaning between batches.