Is my trimming okay?

This is my first harvest and I am not quite sure if I am trimming close enough so I am posting a couple of pictures. I cut as close as I can to the buds, trying not to cut them. Please let me know.

yeah they look good.

wow great job

Yea, looks great. Strikingly similar to some Brainstorm I just harvested actually. I wish I had pics of it to compare.

Just gonna go out on a limb here - did you have a lot of plants in a small(ish) area, like me? I was pretty unhappy with the density/dried yield in the end, and I attribute it to too few watts per plant. Just curious as to your setup.

did you grow under CFLs? I did & the buds turned airy & light. sad.

HPS WHOO hoo!!!

carl.burnette said:

did you grow under CFLs?

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Not sure if you're asking me or the OP, but I used a 600w HPS.....with 14 plants. D'oh!
(ah well, lesson learned)

I grew 8 plants in a 5 x 5 closet, the final stage under one 1000w HPS and one 600w HPS. What you see there is one of the lower limbs. Thank you for those replies.

Trimming is good so long as you like it. It's really up to the individual on how the buds should be trimmed. Some like to get in deep and gnaw out every last bit of leaf, while others like to only remove fan leaves and leave every bit of frosty leaf they can. The type of bud can make a difference, too. Sativa strains generally require a lighter touch as they generally produce wispier buds than an Indica. Trim a heavy sativa too much and you'll be left with nothing. Where-as an Indica plant will produce denser buds with less leaf sometimes making trimming only a matter of removing mostly fan leaves. Neither Indica or Sativa is harder to trim, they just require a slightly different strategy usually.