Advice on trimming buds with many foxtails

[MrGreenWeed]

Here is a Spice White Devil about a 3-7 days from harvest. I have little experience with trimming buds that are filled up with foxtails.

Like the title says, any advice on technique or strategy?

Peace

 

[unclefishstick]

let it dry first,then use your fingers to pluck the leaves off...

 

[Iron_Lion]

be a baller and throw in it the trim pro.

 

[MrGreenWeed]

Let it dry first?

Let it dry first?

let it dry first,then use your fingers to pluck the leaves off...

So just pluck the fans and larger leaves right away, let it dry fully or partially, and then grab the smaller stuff when it's more crispy?

Have you done this with foxtailed weed before?

 

[MrGreenWeed]

be a baller and throw in it the trim pro.

Well I'm not a thug living large so no 700 dollar trimmer for me. At least that's what my niece just told me a baller is.

I did debate buying a trimmer but i'm just not that large yet and I've been told those auto trimmer really knock around the buds causing trich loses. Either way no trim pro. My patients want me to be hands on with the finished product.

 

[toastfighter2]

Get a good pair of scissors and get the big leaves first, then trim as much of the sugar leaves as you can(keeping them in a separate pile), then dry it. After that the rest of the leaves will just crumble off. A trim pro would take care of all those fox tails, it would cut them all off and mix them in with everything in the trim bin. I am pretty sure that Iron was just mess with you a little, but all in good fun of course.

 

[MrGreenWeed]

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Get a good pair of scissors and get the big leaves first, then trim as much of the sugar leaves as you can(keeping them in a separate pile), then dry it. After that the rest of the leaves will just crumble off. A trim pro would take care of all those fox tails, it would cut them all off and mix them in with everything in the trim bin. I am pretty sure that Iron was just mess with you a little, but all in good fun of course.

Yep, that's what I planned. Get as much as possible the first cut and hope enough just falls off in the drying process.
I always separate the good and bad trim, I waste nothing.

lol I know he was playing. I just didn't know what a baller was, my 12 year old niece had to tell me. I'd love a trim pro or another model but I have better things to invest in with what one of those costs. Sure would be convenient though.

Do the 200 dollar hand crank ones work well or does a person need to spend 1k or more?

 

[AliceInNorCal]

Before harvest, pull all the big leaves that you can.
Let it dry up. Then carefully get in there with some curved blade grape scissors (Chica Masa's my fav)
I sometimes end up cutting off the longest of the foxtails. Makes it look more uniform and have better visual appeal.

.down with all mechanical trimmers.there's nothing like a good hand job.

 

[John Deere]

there's nothing like a good hand job.

 

[idiit]

i don't treat x sats like dense hard indica dom nugs. i pull/cut the fan leaves and leave some of the trim leaf on.

 

[whiteberrieS]

Get yourself a pair of fiskar brand snips $5 at walmart...then go to town.

Everyone who's still using scissors needs a pair of them bad boys^

 

[Sir_Syzurp]

i don't treat x sats like dense hard indica dom nugs. i pull/cut the fan leaves and leave some of the trim leaf on.

I would have to agree with idiit here, the majority of sats I have worked with need to be treated a little different than most indicas. One big thing I noticed was that sativas when drying almost require the fan leaves to wrap the colas to help proper drying occur. Every time I wet trim then hang a sativa it dries in about 2 days where I live (very arid) with a stiff snapping stem and I lose some flavor and scent profile. So like idiit said, find your fan leaves that have good trich coverage and just trim those fingers down to where the trichs stop stretching on that leaf. From the pics you provided it doesn't appear that you were heavily loaded down with fan leaves, so I would say just chop and hang then trim it up and send it to a nice home in a jar.

 

[huligun]

What you trim off can end up in a joint or the hash machine No losses

 

[Easy7]

I think it would be nice, to have a gizmo that hangs a plant for trimming. Something like a meat hook, lol. Just hang it and trim it dry over a bin, or fresh for bubble.

 

[Cabinet Ninja]

A cut of Blue Dream Haze that I've been running is ALL foxtails just like what you seem to have there.

What I've been doing is just getting down and trimming it all on harvest day. Takes forever but then that way it's done.

Got a small harvest of her ready to cut in a week or two and already not looking forward to the 2+ hour trim sesh for what will yield 1oz or so.

 

[festerous]

I found that a pair of tweezers works wonderfully for this. Just sharpen the edge of the tweezers a bit by rubbing them on a nail file or something.
I can get right down to the stem with out really disturbing anything and it's allot faster than scissors in this case.

 

[dramamine]

I found that a pair of tweezers works wonderfully for this. Just sharpen the edge of the tweezers a bit by rubbing them on a nail file or something.
I can get right down to the stem with out really disturbing anything and it's allot faster than scissors in this case.

True that..