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Gr33nSanta
In this past year, I have started dry trimming, I wet trimmed for years, but at some point about a year ago I was too busy and started dry trimming in my spare time.
Nowadays, I always dry trim, like Jellyfish says, wait until you pretty much only have to knock the leaves off, that is the perfect level of dryness before first sweat.
Since then, Ive also learned that it helps the drying process, the leaves help pull moisture away from the stems, they are the first to dry and start wicking the inside of the buds.
Also, I like how dry trimming gives me a little more flexibility, when I used to wet trim, Id have to trim everything right now.
I can simply harvest a large amount quickly now, and focus on re-filling the room as fast as possible.
For years I was all for wet trimming, and I almost always dry trim now.
One more benefit of dry trimming is that you can break the branches into small pieces, I do not like to finger fuck the buds, but when I used to wet trim, Id want to hang big long branch so I was always more susceptible to tendonitis.
Nowadays, I always dry trim, like Jellyfish says, wait until you pretty much only have to knock the leaves off, that is the perfect level of dryness before first sweat.
Since then, Ive also learned that it helps the drying process, the leaves help pull moisture away from the stems, they are the first to dry and start wicking the inside of the buds.
Also, I like how dry trimming gives me a little more flexibility, when I used to wet trim, Id have to trim everything right now.
I can simply harvest a large amount quickly now, and focus on re-filling the room as fast as possible.
For years I was all for wet trimming, and I almost always dry trim now.
One more benefit of dry trimming is that you can break the branches into small pieces, I do not like to finger fuck the buds, but when I used to wet trim, Id want to hang big long branch so I was always more susceptible to tendonitis.
Douglas.Curtis
Autistic Diplomat in Training
Yep, and when it's perfectly dried for a cure, 'dry' trimming finely takes waaay too long.
Get your drying environment right and wet trim. You'll love the increased quality.
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Gr33nSanta
Whether you wet or dry trim, the cure is all about timing.
You can be a busy gardener, but for best results (I am guilty of not always having best results) you should be able to check on your drying flowers every 6 hours, that is right, 4 times a day. Unless you have a dialed in environment.
In my case, the flowers drying are always mixed cultivars so I really have to pay attention.
Also, every week is different, the outside weather affect my indoor environment, therefor, some flowers might take 3 days to dry on a cold February week and take 6 days on a wet February week. PAY ATTENTION!
You can be a busy gardener, but for best results (I am guilty of not always having best results) you should be able to check on your drying flowers every 6 hours, that is right, 4 times a day. Unless you have a dialed in environment.
In my case, the flowers drying are always mixed cultivars so I really have to pay attention.
Also, every week is different, the outside weather affect my indoor environment, therefor, some flowers might take 3 days to dry on a cold February week and take 6 days on a wet February week. PAY ATTENTION!
I find that to preserve the flavors it is very preferable to dry trim. I do not de humidify or move any air in the room I just hang them until they are dry enough to as jellyfish said crack the leaves right off them with your scissors. If you want to re hydrate them use some bovitas or hell even a hot dog bun, bread or an orange peel. I believe the old dutch method was to use paper bags for weeks then into the jars.
You might be right there. I don't worry about trimming 'finely' because I'm just growing for myself and a few friends.
Well that's a pretty bold claim. In what way is the quality increased by wet trimming versus dry trimming?
What are your methods of wet trimming? Doesn't manipulating your drying room's environment cause the terps to dissipate?
Bingo. I have been doing that for years. I can maintain the temp and humidity to exactly what I want and I can leave them in there as long as I like. Often a couple weeks or more.
Quite frankly, if I didn't need the tent for the next crop, I would never jar my buds. I would just leave them in my humidor/tent and pick buds when I need than. I run a perpetual setup so I have something new going into the drying tent every couple months.
I have a filter in it so there is absolutely NO ODOR. Works great if you have the room and the extra couple bucks.
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Getting grassy smell and reduced terpenes from wet trimming? You're doing it wrong, plain and simple. I don't, when I get to do it the way I want.I get awesomely terpene and sticky cannabinoid rich flowers which stay that way through curing.
I may have made my point poorly. It was pointed out in this thread that the smell comes from cutting the fresh leaves. When you cut grass, you get the same smell, or hay a field etc. But that smell isn't just wet/cut vegetation, the plant produces that smell as a response to being "attacked". It's a defense mechanism. You don't get that smell if you pull the grass out. It's the act of cutting the green material produces it.
I wanted to apply that theory to cannabis trimming. I found if I didn't cut any leaf material, just got the stems, that hay smell never appeared at all. 3 different strains, same result.
Those same 3 strains, when trimmed wet by cutting leafy material, all produced that hay smell to one degree or another, almost immediately. It dissipated after a few days in the jars, and the "nose" came back.
But when you compare the jars that never had the hay smell in the first place, those jars smell dramatically louder, and the profile is much more pronounced. It isn't a small difference.
I have Gelato and Fire OG this round. I'll try the same experiment again and post the results.
Douglas.Curtis
Autistic Diplomat in Training
Well gee, that doesn't happen when I trim leaf, as I've done for 10+ years, so I have to say bogus. Grassy smell comes from warm cannabis, no cutting required. Trim it cool and keep it cool for zero grassy and 100% terp retention.
Like I said, grassy smell means you're doing it wrong. Nothing to do with cutting leaf.
Grassy smells come from people who dont know what the fuck they are doing. Period. Trimmed wet or dry.
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I like how a tent is easy to control the drying, no microclimates, efficient air exchange and protects your harvest from any contamination, infestation or colonisation by anything. That has happened to me when I dried in the loft - found some crawling bastards had moved in.
Douglas, you must be the ONLY one that doesn't get that grassy smell when you trim wet, because there are many testimonials to that very phenomenon, just on this thread.
ALSO- You never answered my question- How do you reckon your quality is increased by wet trimming? In what sense? Better smells or looks better? I'd really like to know.
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Gr33nSanta
when I used to wet trim my weed smelled as good as it does now dry trimming.
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Gr33nSanta
hohohoNo. Me too, lol. A lot of it is strain dependant too...
