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If you harvest enough, enough times, eventually you will have a situation where you can't trim it all when it is wet. One will then get finally get toward the end and find a crisp, dry plant or branch. It can be trimmed with just your hands. You will quickly realize how much better the vine dried is compared to the other, terpines, flavor, and crystal content. Think about the thousands of years man has used this plant. i really doubt anyone was using drying racks made of fur and trimming with. that shit was left standing and cure on the vine as nature intended. Its just been in the last 2 decades people started this method of wet trimming drying and jaring etc. I have been dry trimming for over 20 years. In fact I have plants on the bone in open air from Sept as smooth and flavorful as any book informed cure method. That I will rival against any immediate trim, 5 day rack time, jar burb , burp for days sealed for cure. Blah blah ..... Wet trimming is for the anxious. Do what is natural.
YES, YES, FUCK YES!!!!! I am so stoked you gave this a try, I bet you have some amazing flavor now! Good work.Read this thread, gave it a shot....
I could write a novel on how much this improved my end product.....seriously, it's like finding the missing link.
Thank you so much!
Yo Marski! A dry trim tip for low RH. Leave the small buds on big pieces of branch. This will keep those smaller pieces from drying too fast and tasting like shit. Inversely, Take colas off the Main stalk. A drying Tent has helped me alot with controlling my drying enviroment. Whats your drying spot like?I cant wait till harvest time for more than the obvious reasons. This knowledge is very key and is exactly what was missing in my previous grows I can feel it. My buds were drying too quickly before and I wet trimmed with a low RH. Dry trim for me this next run.. WiFi's properly dried and cured? mmm mmmmm
Yo Marski! A dry trim tip for low RH. Leave the small buds on big pieces of branch. This will keep those smaller pieces from drying too fast and tasting like shit. Inversely, Take colas off the Main stalk. A drying Tent has helped me alot with controlling my drying enviroment. Whats your drying spot like?
So I would like to first say before a few months ago I thought I knew the best way to trim and dry. Then I proved myself wrong.
Trimming the herb at harvest has always been my method, which I loved. After moving to Colorado with low humidity I started having problems drying. Over drying was common and putting it away with some moisture was not an option. So I have a 40 day strain 8 ball kush and it finished way before expected the seed company said it was a 60 day strain. Having to pull it 20 days early and not having time to trim. I just hung it up whole planning on trimming it later. Everyone told me it was hard to trim dry and I was wasting my time. Well they were wrong it trimmed great and I.M.O. it was easier by far. The trim made better bho and the bud didn't over dry at all. So here is some of the things I learned and noticed.
Trimming dry
1) If the bud is not dry enough before you start it seems impossible.
Wait until the leaves fall off with just a touch. Usually takes 7- 9 days for me.
2) I only use scissors to cut stems . I keep them closed and knock the leaves off.
3) Trimming like this gives you time to reset your grow, so while you are trimming your next crop is growing.
4) Also the buds get handled allot less. Being bag ready when done if you are not curing.
5) We can make oil the day we trim.
6) For reasons I don't understand the bud doesn't over dry as easy with this method. Even after bagged.
7) After its dried if you cannot finish trimming in the same day we put it in big plastic containers with lids and it stays perfect while we trim all week.
8)The buds look allot less man handled this method and we seem to get a better over all looking bud.
3 months ago if you would have told me to trim dry I would have laughed at you . I was wrong all things considered it has turned into a great help. I don't have to hire a bunch of people to hurry up and trim so we can reset. I don't have 3,000 hanging branches everywhere just huge whole plants hanging. Anyone wanting to try this don't believe the hype its just as easy if not easier than wet trimming.
So I had two different containers stashed one dry trimmed one wet kept in the same kind of jars. Popped them open the other day and the dry trim one was still spongy and the stem still bent some. The wet trim one was crispy real crispy. Just my experience hope it helps someone out.
YES, YES, FUCK YES!!!!! I am so stoked you gave this a try, I bet you have some amazing flavor now! Good work.
I agree the leaves left on and the plants whole takes too long . At least for my situation last time it wasn't ready until 9-11 days usually it only takes 6-7 without the fan leaves. I believe it would work better to leave them on but I wouldn't be done trimming on time and the next room would be done. We cut the plants up last time and dried. It wasn't as effective as when its trimmed better to just leave them whole.
Slowly drying the buds will convert harsh sugars in to more THC. That's what I was told by some old timers at least.
Same here. I think that, along with a proper and properly long cure (minimum 2mos in my world) makes a world of difference. Like LadyV says, it's a total game-changer. I learned that most starkly running that Longbottom Leaf of Loran's.I leave mine up for 2 weeks.
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