WET VS DRY Trimming

[Justagrowin]

Wet trim to a large paper bag turn once a day till dry. SLows it down smells great taste great

 

[bagada]

Hi I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents on drying and curing. When I started I always times wet and put the buds in jars way too early. I think this is due to the beginner mindset of not wanting to mess things up so taking action sooner rather than later. Over the years I have since completely went the opposite way. Meaning I cut my plants as whole as possible and hang dry in a dark room for 2 weeks to a month. Touch them as little as possible and never use a dehumidifier unless your RH is 70+ as this would risk mold. 60%RH is ok. If you don't have a dehumidifier it's more important to keep the airflow moving around. I would also keep things warmer at higher humidity drying rooms. Dryer at lower temps. Basically what I'm saying is the best cured and dried bud I have ever seen was hung in a room with windows open and air flowing through. Left to hang until the leaves were practically falling off. The buds seemed overly hard and dry but not crumbly. Only the leaves are crumbly. The bud is much easier to trim this way contrary to what most growers say. This also goes against what we are inclined to do, which is CONTROL our plants. The key to his method is to let the plants just dry themselves out. Try to imagine a wet towel in your dry room. As long as a damp towel would slowly dry in your drying area then the buds will dry. Using his method you will notice the buds never get hay smells because the leaves break down almost all the way and only the resin seems to hold everything together. YOU WONT OVER DRY YIUR BUDS. They will be perfect when you pu them in jars. Very stable. In fact they may still rise above 65% RH in the jars but a few days of burping will quickly stabilize them slowly over months. It has been my experience that I ruin more bud putting them in sealed containers way way too early. This way works exceptionally well for humid areas where people have a hard time drying there bud quickly. Use the humidity to your advantage and let them CURE on the vine. This takes most of the effort and fear of trapping that mildew smell in when you jar. Unlikely since you are making sure the buds dry for a LONG time SLOWLY. Thus the inside of the bud is only slightly more moist, not wet. When you quick dry your buds (quick meaning anything under 2 weeks)you are basically over drying the outside and the inside is WET. Not moist, WET. Then you are just rehydrating your overly dried outside buds using inside moisture. If you are in anything below 55% humidity you will have to slow down the dry at some point. Dry in a small dark drawer or closet to boost humidity(careful to not go over 70%RH) or use cardboard boxes with whole plants and ALL LEAVES. Anything you are sealing up should feel too dry on the outside. Leave those leaves until ready for jars. If humidity is really high just make sure you dry for about a month. The airflow is important at high humidity and mild warmth helps dry slowly. Try this out with one plant. Just hang it and forget about it for a month. When the leaves start to fall off on there own and are crushed to powder in your fingers and falling off on there own. The. You jar and check RH. Never let it rise above 65% for even 5 minutes. If it rises close to 65 in the same day, leave the buds out for another 5 days to a week. If you can't get that smell try this method on one plant or branch. The worst that can happen is you over dry but that would take months and may NEVER happen in humid climates. It would take forever to really OVER dry to the point of brittle. Forgot to say that stems should snap clean before jars. Never put moist weed in a jar. That's how most weed is quickly staled up. Aloha

 

[bagada]

If quality is what you're after, remove fans, hang whole plant in 55% rH room 68 degrees for about 7 days or until stems start to crackle. Cut into 16" single branches and pile loosely into large bins. Put a hygrometer in the bins, check after a few hours and burp the bins in the same climate controlled room for another 2-3 days until the rH stabilizes at 60%.

If done right the outside leaves will be crispy, the stems will be stiff, and the buds inside will be potent and pretty. Now at your leisure, you can dry trim. A few pairs of scissors with an alcohol bath handy or just crumble the leaves away with a gloved hand. Depends on the look you're going for.

I have trimmed dry and wet, dry trim has a much higher probability of dankness and the finished problem looks better. This visual difference is because when you wet trim, the leaf edges lose moisture unevenly and roll back into the buds. Dry trim the leaf is already dry, so you get a much cleaner look to the buds. I have provided top shelf top to medical outlets using this method.

This is right on. Basically the same method as me except I'm advocating a slower dry for those not wanting to deal with as much burping. Also good for people living in warm humid areas who don't want to buy a dehumidifier. Instead use the humid air to your advantage and CURE on the vine. Then jar to preserve and cure further. Airflow and mild wamth are key In Humid dry rooms. I'm blasting my dehuey at 55 in the evening then leaving the windows and door open during the day (60-65RH) to slow things down.

 

[doob]

Pretty much used method above, stuck dehum on 55%rh, cut into branches, remove fan leaves only, hung for 12 days at 18degC in dark, jarred up and it was 62% and jar then raised to 64%, the smell is so much better dry trimming, won't trim wet again!

 

[TheScrogFrog]

I dry trimmed for the first time in many years recently and I don't think i'll ever go back to wet trimming. The drying time took longer, resulting in a smoother smoke, a better cure, and a much better looking product in the end. I'm very impressed with the difference.

 

[churtmunk]

Have predominately trimmed wet. Often for convenience sake, but after experimenting this go round with half dry trim half wet trim, I'll never trim dry again as well. My glue smells great either way, but it's clear with my other strains that leaving the leaves on helped them to dry much more evenly. Perhaps it didn't matter with the glue as much since they're the densest nugs?

 

[FinestKindToo]

I know this is an old thread, but it looks like I owe a fellow grower/friend an apology. I've been wet trimming for years, he's been dry trimming. I told him I couldn't imagine why it would make any difference (does anyone know WHY it is so different?). Looks like I'm dry trimming from now on. Sigh. It's soooo much easier to wet trim, but the quality trumps the effort!

 

[Jellyfish]

Dry trimming for the win!

 

[churtmunk]

Have predominately trimmed wet. Often for convenience sake, but after experimenting this go round with half dry trim half wet trim, I'll never trim dry again as well. My glue smells great either way, but it's clear with my other strains that leaving the leaves on helped them to dry much more evenly. Perhaps it didn't matter with the glue as much since they're the densest nugs?

well I must have been faded writing this. I will never trim WET again. Definitely a noticeable difference.

 

[EastCoast710]

yup dry trim.. unless you can control the shit out of your environment. to a fucking T.. then u can wet trim just hang dry 14 days and jar up.. wont hurt to much of anything.. but i dry trim for the quality.. and i can dry trim a lb of glue in 3 hours or so .

 

[Ganja baba]

I don't wet trim , one of the main reasons is the amount of resin that falls off all over the place when I dry trim its insane what you loose , you have to be very carefull , I agree if you can't control the shit out your drying room area so on then wet trim vine trimming is better ,
But only because of the environment .
I find not issue at all with wet trim , I make sure I have 60% hunidity for the first 4 to 5 days then 50 they never ever go bone dry this way and I can leave them on the shelf with out worry they will ever over dry , then burp them my dry time is nearly 2 weeks if my temps are low .
But it's been so long since I dry trimmed I may give it another go I've learnt so much about drying since then I'll do a side by side and see what if anything I'm missing out on ,

 

[rykus]

Wet trimming bruises the flowers and damages resin glands IMO, we put on the white gloves for cut, take our time and get a few people so the big plants never fall or get layer down.

Hang for 7 days then into totes or big paper yard bags for another few days - week then bucked down and hand trimmed is by far the best method I have seen if flowers are the priority.

Wet trim equals negative 300 per on end sales minimum.machine is almost non saleable in tough market IMO, would never do myself...

 

[ben_710]

I've tried both and I like wet trimming better. Especially since I can have fresh frozen trim to make bubble hash with. Bubble hash is more terpy and more melty when made from fresh frozen

 

[Cadfael]

Only on page 3 here, but

Wouldn't local humidity be one of the key unknowns in this whole equation?

People in arid areas would prefer a dry trim, thus slowing the drying process.

People in humid areas might find a wet trim works better as to remove moisture and prevent mold.

Thoughts?

 

[Baron Greenback]

Just tried a dry trim for the first time - bobbins piled upon bobbins. It's hard to find the end of the petiole, it's hard to know if you have all the leaf matter as it just breaks off.
So, there we have it, wet trim for me, never going to trim dry again - also wasted any number of trichomes.

 

[LyryC]

Wet trimming bruises the flowers and damages resin glands IMO, we put on the white gloves for cut, take our time and get a few people so the big plants never fall or get layer down.

Hang for 7 days then into totes or big paper yard bags for another few days - week then bucked down and hand trimmed is by far the best method I have seen if flowers are the priority.

Wet trim equals negative 300 per on end sales minimum.machine is almost non saleable in tough market IMO, would never do myself...

Wet trimming is the worst.

you should remove all fans and leaf material with no FROST on it BEFORE you hang to dry.

AFter you hang to dry, you can remove all the excess leaf material and your trichs don't massively fall off, if they do, you went too dry.

like this

or this

then when its dry it finishes like this

Not the same strain, but after the last removal of leaves.

Trichs being lost and falling down = too dry.

Fan leave petioles a problem = lazy approach.

Wet Trimming gives you an inferior product.

Most important stage of cannabis cultivation is harvest, why fuck up all the work you did up to the last point?

 

[Jellyfish]

I end up with much better product when I dry trim. It's not that difficult if you have good set of trimmers/scissors. The dry trim can be vaped or used to make canna butter.

 

[DunHav`nFun]

You know.....I`ve made a few posts in this thread to help spread fact and not opinion , even helped to keep this thread from being shitcanned from all the controversy of "opinions" based on what worked for them the best without realizing that what worked best for them is directly related to your geographic position on Earth.....period......

Lyryc.....as inexperienced as you are at growin dope , you of ALL people shouldn`t be giving absolutes such as "wet trimming`s the worst" when all you`ve done since being here was in closets till you finally upgraded to whatever it is you`re doing now...and hey....

I`m not callin you out , but rather using you as an example of the negative bullshit that`s filled this thread since its inception....now....for the record....

Wet trimming serves it`s purpose WELL in high humidity climates with LARGE amounts of dope hangin in as close to a well ventilated and dehumidified area to prevent budrot and all manners of airborn nasty shit attacking drying nuggage when RH pegs 100% daily inside ....and again....

My trimming process is EXACTLY verbatim what Lyryc claims is his method with removing all large fans and allowing all sugar leaf material collapse and shrink up around the colas till dry , no mangling and bruising involved I assure you .....and ...

Rykus....no offense to you and ALL in medville that have to compete for end product prices dictated by stringent standards in place to jew the price down for the prettiest bag appeal , smell , and taste when retailers ram it home when they get it, but I digress....

I never had to trim past the wet removal cuz they loved the product with it attached , but if you take all nuggage after dry and run it through tumblers , it removes all the sugar leaf and leaves you with wads of dry sift and makes the nugs all but pristine.....and lastly....

As stated above , if in an arrid environment , it`s absolutely mandatory to let all leftover foliage attached to the limbs before bucked and trimmed to all for a longer slower dry and then a delicate dry trim with a decent cure takes care of dope that gets finished too fast even though most never do it cuz it`s right off to market....anyways...

My 2 cents from all those yrs.....Take it to the bank....and...

Peace.....DHF........

 

[dansbuds]

You know.....I`ve made a few posts in this thread to help spread fact and not opinion , even helped to keep this thread from being shitcanned from all the controversy of "opinions" based on what worked for them the best without realizing that what worked best for them is directly related to your geographic position on Earth.....period......

Lyryc.....as inexperienced as you are at growin dope , you of ALL people shouldn`t be giving absolutes such as "wet trimming`s the worst" when all you`ve done since being here was in closets till you finally upgraded to whatever it is you`re doing now...and hey....

I`m not callin you out , but rather using you as an example of the negative bullshit that`s filled this thread since its inception....now....for the record....

Wet trimming serves it`s purpose WELL in high humidity climates with LARGE amounts of dope hangin in as close to a well ventilated and dehumidified area to prevent budrot and all manners of airborn nasty shit attacking drying nuggage when RH pegs 100% daily inside ....and again....

My trimming process is EXACTLY verbatim what Lyryc claims is his method with removing all large fans and allowing all sugar leaf material collapse and shrink up around the colas till dry , no mangling and bruising involved I assure you .....and ...

Rykus....no offense to you and ALL in medville that have to compete for end product prices dictated by stringent standards in place to jew the price down for the prettiest bag appeal , smell , and taste when retailers ram it home when they get it, but I digress....

I never had to trim past the wet removal cuz they loved the product with it attached , but if you take all nuggage after dry and run it through tumblers , it removes all the sugar leaf and leaves you with wads of dry sift and makes the nugs all but pristine.....and lastly....

As stated above , if in an arrid environment , it`s absolutely mandatory to let all leftover foliage attached to the limbs before bucked and trimmed to all for a longer slower dry and then a delicate dry trim with a decent cure takes care of dope that gets finished too fast even though most never do it cuz it`s right off to market....anyways...

My 2 cents from all those yrs.....Take it to the bank....and...

Peace.....DHF........

yup yup ,I live in the northeast & i wet trim in the hotter summer months when the RH is high & dry trim in the winter months when the RH is at an all time low .
gotta know your drying environment in order to get a decent trim thats acceptable to those buying it !

 

[noyd666]

DRY OR WET TRIM SIR.