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clown baby
Active member
i wet trimmed for years, and buds never had the same stink as the buds my friends were getting. even after a cure. then i dried a few plants whole and drytrimmed, and realized i'd been doing it wrong all along.
pain in the ass, but it's worth it if you care about bag appeal.
pain in the ass, but it's worth it if you care about bag appeal.
B4URTIME
Member
Dry trim > trim wet. Remove fan leafs and leafs with no trich, but leave all frosty leafs intact.
If you do trim wet and you want to have anywhere near the odor and flavor of a dried trim, you will need to not hang your wet trimmed buds past 3 days, Anything more then 3 days and your product will more then likely dry out to far and ruin any cure you could have obtained.
You can get similar outcomes from a wet and dry trim if you can manage to contain the wet trimmed nugs humidity lv, The way to do that is to pull them earlier and jar them earlier.
It's just easiest to get the perfect cure when you trim dry, because the leafs cup over the buds and protect them and trap some moisture in slowing down the dry process which curing seems to start before they even get jarred. Where anytime I trimmed wet, the smell was gone until jarred and optimal humidity was reached and then the jars were left to cure out.
With dry trim by the time you start trimming some curing has already taken place which is why soon as you start removing the leafs the odor comes out heavy, by the time you get it into the jars the smell is righteous and dank.
If you do trim wet and you want to have anywhere near the odor and flavor of a dried trim, you will need to not hang your wet trimmed buds past 3 days, Anything more then 3 days and your product will more then likely dry out to far and ruin any cure you could have obtained.
You can get similar outcomes from a wet and dry trim if you can manage to contain the wet trimmed nugs humidity lv, The way to do that is to pull them earlier and jar them earlier.
It's just easiest to get the perfect cure when you trim dry, because the leafs cup over the buds and protect them and trap some moisture in slowing down the dry process which curing seems to start before they even get jarred. Where anytime I trimmed wet, the smell was gone until jarred and optimal humidity was reached and then the jars were left to cure out.
With dry trim by the time you start trimming some curing has already taken place which is why soon as you start removing the leafs the odor comes out heavy, by the time you get it into the jars the smell is righteous and dank.
island_organics
Well-known member
Exactly what i found too. I leave all sugar leaf on my personal stash until i'm about to smoke it. It definitely preserves the delicate, volatile terpenes.
Dry trim = mass loss of resin when trimming
Wet trim , After 2 days as long as the humidity stays between 45 and 50 you will have perfectly dry buds you can leave them on the shelfs or hanging as long as you want and they will not over dry , I dry on wrecks nets I trim all the bud so that when it is dry I do not need to trim any thing again , totally less handling of buds bags and moving big leafy plants around and every chop of the scissors makes for mass amount of resin loss , people get better results dry because the leaves and stems lean to a more forgiving drying , less chance of drying out to quick but if you follow the 45-50 percent rule it's not a problem will take a week if not a few more days with wet bud dries like this , also we need to cram the herb in if hanging have them touching if on a net have no gaps and have them also i top of each other like a thick ish layer but not to thick as to flatten the buds , then the most crucial if using hanging nets is to very gently lift the buds of the net when dry other wise if you just use your hand and arm you will turn your nets into cheese graters and swipe the resin of the out sides ,
And when using nets never ever move the buds around like most people seem to do Leave Them till they are dry , my method is to touch the buds as little as possible , all the heads of my resin glands are all ways in tact unlike dry trimmed weed I see
Wet trim , After 2 days as long as the humidity stays between 45 and 50 you will have perfectly dry buds you can leave them on the shelfs or hanging as long as you want and they will not over dry , I dry on wrecks nets I trim all the bud so that when it is dry I do not need to trim any thing again , totally less handling of buds bags and moving big leafy plants around and every chop of the scissors makes for mass amount of resin loss , people get better results dry because the leaves and stems lean to a more forgiving drying , less chance of drying out to quick but if you follow the 45-50 percent rule it's not a problem will take a week if not a few more days with wet bud dries like this , also we need to cram the herb in if hanging have them touching if on a net have no gaps and have them also i top of each other like a thick ish layer but not to thick as to flatten the buds , then the most crucial if using hanging nets is to very gently lift the buds of the net when dry other wise if you just use your hand and arm you will turn your nets into cheese graters and swipe the resin of the out sides ,
And when using nets never ever move the buds around like most people seem to do Leave Them till they are dry , my method is to touch the buds as little as possible , all the heads of my resin glands are all ways in tact unlike dry trimmed weed I see
_tessarecting
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Yeah but charas are the best
Hello all,
This year, I just cut and hanged my buds this year.
I plucked the fans and big stuff briefly and hung it at about 70% humidity for 5 weeks...yes that long.
I bucked them from the branches and stuffed them in a 1/2 gallon jars with Boveda packs (62%).
Was very lazy about it this year...I reasoned (or rationalized, your choice) that I will just do it at smoking time.
I keep small jars of each strain available while leaving the bulk unopened.
So, I clean my buds before I vape them and you know what...no difference in my mileage. A lot easier for me since its mostly just me on consuming.
That is all.
minds_I
This year, I just cut and hanged my buds this year.
I plucked the fans and big stuff briefly and hung it at about 70% humidity for 5 weeks...yes that long.
I bucked them from the branches and stuffed them in a 1/2 gallon jars with Boveda packs (62%).
Was very lazy about it this year...I reasoned (or rationalized, your choice) that I will just do it at smoking time.
I keep small jars of each strain available while leaving the bulk unopened.
So, I clean my buds before I vape them and you know what...no difference in my mileage. A lot easier for me since its mostly just me on consuming.
That is all.
minds_I
brown_thumb
Active member
Someone told me the best way to harvest and dry cannabis is to keep the roots intact and shake off the soil, then hang the whole plant upside down. This seems counterintuitive to me since the starches are stored in the roots during the Calvin cycle and it seems they would migrate back to the top via gravity.
RE wet vs. dry trimming, it seems to me that minimizing transmigration of nutrients and chloroform from leaves to the flowers would be beneficial. But I'm just guessing.
RE wet vs. dry trimming, it seems to me that minimizing transmigration of nutrients and chloroform from leaves to the flowers would be beneficial. But I'm just guessing.
Live hash is the best your right full stop no comparison . That will be the next wave , some one will invent a device to take live resin of the plants with out hand rubbing , similar to scissor hash
Been having an issue. Got 2 plants/phenos. 1 is denser and 1 is really airy.. I trimmed when they where wet then hung them up to dry.. After 2 1/2 days they where already almost completely dry.. I make A box and run string inside of it to hang everything on. Then I place the box in A pitch black room with slight air flow with temps that stay between 72-75degrees..
Both buds from both phenos didn't seem to compact together when dry.. the calyx seemed to just dry and get smaller, but stay exactly where it was. Basically making even the denser phenos nugs airy.. it's been 3 days since they where in jars that I open up 2x A day to let fresh air in. They seem to still have that green grassy smell no matter what. It's not as bad as the nugs I still have from 4 1/2 months ago though.. the
So I tried to dry A couple nugs from the denser pheno A different way. I still did A wet trim but let them hang for only 16-18 hours.. They where still slightly moist, but I put them into jars. I've been burping the jar every 6 hours for about 30minutes.. These nugs actually compacted themselves,giving them the actual dense look and feel that you would think these nugs would have by looking at the plant.. They still have A slight grassy smell but not as bad as the previous nugs I dried from the same plant. But I can actually smell the citrus pine fuel smell that they had when growing..
Both buds from both phenos didn't seem to compact together when dry.. the calyx seemed to just dry and get smaller, but stay exactly where it was. Basically making even the denser phenos nugs airy.. it's been 3 days since they where in jars that I open up 2x A day to let fresh air in. They seem to still have that green grassy smell no matter what. It's not as bad as the nugs I still have from 4 1/2 months ago though.. the
So I tried to dry A couple nugs from the denser pheno A different way. I still did A wet trim but let them hang for only 16-18 hours.. They where still slightly moist, but I put them into jars. I've been burping the jar every 6 hours for about 30minutes.. These nugs actually compacted themselves,giving them the actual dense look and feel that you would think these nugs would have by looking at the plant.. They still have A slight grassy smell but not as bad as the previous nugs I dried from the same plant. But I can actually smell the citrus pine fuel smell that they had when growing..
SMALLTUBES
Member
Used to wet trim....better flavor dry trim...and if its just for yourself get a mif tray and all the shake that comes off scrape up and put in a jar....do extractions with that excess...
I've seen a lot of bund porn over the years and a fair share of flowers in life. Some buds will always be awkward no matter how trimmed. Even possible to be too many calyxes. It is the native look to the flower. Shouldn't look like it's alien but look like a nice bud. A little crystal leaf wrapped around looks good and protects the dense gland laden calyxes. Just imagine an over trimmed bud that looks much weaker trying to show only calyxes. By the way native gold is worth more as a nugget than smelted gold. Nothing as pretty as some native gold in quartz!
SMALLTUBES
Member
i saw this thread about a month ago...i prefer dry trimming....i was trimming wet but no way dry is definatly better and kind of easier...just grab buds and just kinda squeeze it and all the leafs shake off...also i do perpetual 1 plant every 3 days...so it just makes it easier and better end result...i must say dry is better
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I'm thinking you might have put it in you're jar when a bit early.Moist and sticky-ness are different and imo if it feels wet on My hand when squeezing and the Bud kinda flattens or deformes ,it's too early.Still some amount of chlorophyll left that gives off that green smell.And of course you know that you want the stems not to be flexible,wet or rubber-ish when you put it in the Jar and if it flattens or deformes when squeezing and doesn't feel a little crunchy on the outside and bounces back into shape before you put it in the Jar might make it smell that way.Having a hard time Putting to words whats in My head right now,lol.And this is just My opinion. ��✌��
I'm thinking you might have put it in you're jar when a bit early.Moist and sticky-ness are different and imo if it feels wet on My hand when squeezing and the Bud kinda flattens or deformes ,it's too early.Still some amount of chlorophyll left that gives off that green smell.And of course you know that you want the stems not to be flexible,wet or rubber-ish when you put it in the Jar and if it flattens or deformes when squeezing and doesn't feel a little crunchy on the outside and bounces back into shape before you put it in the Jar might make it smell that way.Having a hard time Putting to words whats in My head right now,lol.And this is just My opinion. ��✌��
Alright, thanks alot bro! I was wondering if the type of stem makes any difference? Most of my plants have thick full stems, but I have some that have hollow stems? I've noticed that the hollow stems dont really crack or make that snapping sound no matter how dry it is. The hollow stem just usually makes A sharp bend when theyre super dry.. But how would I tell if im hanging flowers with those types of stems ?
3snowboards
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