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I am just finishing my 4th indoor grow and it is really what I would consider my best and only real harvest. I think they say the 3rd or 4th grow is really your first.
One thing I often wonder about is whether the people who buy cannabis are really very smart about wht they think they want. The reason I say this is they want these close trimmed buds which puts a lot of very oily sugar leaf in the trim basket and not on the flowers. It seems to me this just makes the bud more expensive and not better quality. If I was trimming a batch for myself I think I would cut off the fans but leave most of the smaller sugar leaves on because it seems such a waste to trim them close. I send the trim out for RSO so some value is recovered in the end. However, I fail to see the benefit in close trimming. Is this just an outcome of market pressures or is there really a good reason to trim off so much good sugar leaf? I need to do the financial analysis on extraction as well to see if in the end it doesn't matter (if the oil pays for itself and makes up for the close trimming).
The other thing is I am not a lifetime user of cannabis but only a recent convert who found out how benificial the plant is for my health. However, when I get some bud from the local dispenseries it seems like it is mostly crap. My own product even though I am a beginner seems a lot better.....how can this be?
P.S. my 5X7 flower room is giving me about 2.5 lbs of flower (wet) this go around and maybe 3 lbs trim (wet). I only count the flower as the best buds and the little ones (smallish and popcorn) go in the trim.
Thanks,
DGP
One thing I often wonder about is whether the people who buy cannabis are really very smart about wht they think they want. The reason I say this is they want these close trimmed buds which puts a lot of very oily sugar leaf in the trim basket and not on the flowers. It seems to me this just makes the bud more expensive and not better quality. If I was trimming a batch for myself I think I would cut off the fans but leave most of the smaller sugar leaves on because it seems such a waste to trim them close. I send the trim out for RSO so some value is recovered in the end. However, I fail to see the benefit in close trimming. Is this just an outcome of market pressures or is there really a good reason to trim off so much good sugar leaf? I need to do the financial analysis on extraction as well to see if in the end it doesn't matter (if the oil pays for itself and makes up for the close trimming).
The other thing is I am not a lifetime user of cannabis but only a recent convert who found out how benificial the plant is for my health. However, when I get some bud from the local dispenseries it seems like it is mostly crap. My own product even though I am a beginner seems a lot better.....how can this be?
P.S. my 5X7 flower room is giving me about 2.5 lbs of flower (wet) this go around and maybe 3 lbs trim (wet). I only count the flower as the best buds and the little ones (smallish and popcorn) go in the trim.
Thanks,
DGP