When to start trimming?

Banana444

Banana444

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Seems like a dumb question but, I have a ton of trimming to get done by myself. Im hang drying now 1st day, wondering does it matter if I start trimming some of this up? Does it affect any quality of bud whether you trim wet or dry? I have noticed how much easier it is to trim while the buds are still quite wet.
 
And while im asking, how many days drying, typically before going into jars. I always monitor RH and temps. Temps are alway between 70 and 74 and rh varies from 40% to 50%. I have read the forums, perfect cure everytime and all that, but after a few harvests it seems like its always a little different and everyone always has a little different way of doing it.
 
Let me rephrase my question, am I losing anything by trimming my buds during the early dry. I plan to keep hanging until they are almost ready for jars but want to start trimming since the task at hand is not a small one, guessing about 7-8hours worth of trimming.
 
Yeah, there is a pretty decent debate on that. Some people just chop and let hang dry with all fan leaves still attached. It slows the drying process down a little (One arguement is that this increases flavor). Some like to Do all pruning at harvest. this will speed the process up a little bit. I do a combination. At harvest, anything that can be pulled off, I pull. let hang for a few days, then remove the wilted fan leaves. Then hang a few more days. then I trim the buds up completely (Before the buds are feeling very crispy). let them hang again, until they start feeling a little crispy. Then I put them in a sealed 5 gallon bucket for a half a day-a full day to let the moisture even out....Then hang them again. repeat to slow the process down a little, and allow the buds to dry evenly.
 
I do a whole-plant hang dry. When I chop the plant and hang it, I remove all the large fan leaves and throw those away. I then put a cut-open plastic garbage bag under the plant and trim the secondary fan leaves and sugar trim so that it collects on the plastic bag. These I put on a drying rack after combing through looking for brown leaves/leaf particles, which I throw out. The green leaves I use for vaping.

I then do a 7-10 day dry with the whole plant having gone through this first haircut.

When ready to start jarring, I cut the branches into manageable sections and give the bud a proper manicure. Into the jars for curing, taking out/burping as needed. I look for a 6 week cure.

Happy day!
 
My two cents: I hang dry my whole plants at 85-90 degrees F with humidity at 40-50% for three days and then clip each individual bud off the stems and into many mason jars with plenty of air around the buds and continue to sweat the buds for another week. I leave on the fan leaves to help protect the buds during handling and storage. When I need a bud I prune a few at a time. I feel that this is the best way to do the harvest and curing process. A old hippie friend of mine told me about doing it this way.
 
kryptoniteglo said:
I do a whole-plant hang dry. When I chop the plant and hang it, I remove all the large fan leaves and throw those away. I then put a cut-open plastic garbage bag under the plant and trim the secondary fan leaves and sugar trim so that it collects on the plastic bag. These I put on a drying rack after combing through looking for brown leaves/leaf particles, which I throw out. The green leaves I use for vaping.

I then do a 7-10 day dry with the whole plant having gone through this first haircut.

When ready to start jarring, I cut the branches into manageable sections and give the bud a proper manicure. Into the jars for curing, taking out/burping as needed. I look for a 6 week cure.

Happy day!
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The master learns patients when waiting 6 weeks for cured buds. I bet they taste awesome. I usually go for a week of drying and 2 weeks of curing before I partake, but I do notice that the buds taste better after a full month of curing or more.
 
MydogCody said:
The master learns patients when waiting 6 weeks for cured buds. I bet they taste awesome. I usually go for a week of drying and 2 weeks of curing before I partake, but I do notice that the buds taste better after a full month of curing or more.
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Well, I'm not actually a big smoker, so I can wait. I grow my own to try new strains and to make sure what I'm smoking has no pesticides, mold, bugs or other undesirable inhalants. I would never trust a "distributor" to tell me the truth on that!
 
I trim wet (as I chop down the plants), dry the trimmed plants for about three to five days, then use Boveda 62% humidi-paks to cure, using Caliber IV hygrometers in a couple of the jars.

-spek
 
Give up anything by wet trimming? I'd argue smell and taste from my experience but as you can see a lot of people seem to trim wet.

I remove big fan leaves and manicure after drying, then into jars to cure and I do notice a difference.
 
Mother fucker, I have been trimming since I made this post. I have little rings on my fingers from the scissors wearing into my fingers. I swear if anyone even mentions popcorn in the next week...
Thanks tho, it ended up getting a 4day hang dry before trimming got done and this might be my best dry so far, buds are down to 60-75% rh and already smelling amazinh. Last plant I trimmed wet and it was a little easier but im starting to feel like it could have tasted better if I let it hang for a few more days.
 
Banana444 said:
Mother fucker, I have been trimming since I made this post. I have little rings on my fingers from the scissors wearing into my fingers. I swear if anyone even mentions popcorn in the next week...
Thanks tho, it ended up getting a 4day hang dry before trimming got done and this might be my best dry so far, buds are down to 60-75% rh and already smelling amazinh. Last plant I trimmed wet and it was a little easier but im starting to feel like it could have tasted better if I let it hang for a few more days.
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Would make sense, slow drying helps bring out the smell and taste of your crop, trimming wet causes your crop to dry faster. It's less of a hassle to trim wet but I don't like to cut corners.
 
Living in hot, dry California my theory is, by leaving the leaves on it slows my drying which would be 2 days if I trimmed wet and about 4 or 5 with the leaves on. I use tweezers to trim when dry. Works great, IMO. :-)
 
Banana444 said:
Mother fucker, I have been trimming since I made this post. I have little rings on my fingers from the scissors wearing into my fingers. I swear if anyone even mentions popcorn in the next week...
Thanks tho, it ended up getting a 4day hang dry before trimming got done and this might be my best dry so far, buds are down to 60-75% rh and already smelling amazinh. Last plant I trimmed wet and it was a little easier but im starting to feel like it could have tasted better if I let it hang for a few more days.
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Yup! That's trimming all right!
 
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