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What I'm speaking about is trimming the finished product. To be honest I dont do all that extra outdoors I let the plant do its thing. I ensure it has great soil sun and water I dont add nothing but molasses once in flower. All the nutrients are in the soil that I will be using. Those are some plants that I grew last season. Plan on growing the same strains this year. Basically trimming is a long tedious task you get faster at it but it all depends on the strain also some are harder to trim than others. Good Luck dirrtyd

dirrtyd said:

What I'm speaking about is trimming the finished product. To be honest I dont do all that extra outdoors I let the plant do its thing. I ensure it has great soil sun and water I dont add nothing but molasses once in flower. All the nutrients are in the soil that I will be using. Those are some plants that I grew last season. Plan on growing the same strains this year. Basically trimming is a long tedious task you get faster at it but it all depends on the strain also some are harder to trim than others. Good Luck dirrtyd

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My Sour Diesels were a pain in the butt to trim, but the Snowcap were quick and easy.

Enh, you can just do what HumboldtLocal does and run a "Twister" auto-trimmer for most of the work. Hand trimming what you can.

Auto-Trimmers do a pretty good job these days, they leave a very "cone" shaped nug. What is removed will make some great hash.

It is going to take some time though and you are going to need help trimming those 60 plants. I mean, if one person could do an entire plants worth of trimming in 8 hours, then it'd take you two months to trim the harvest! Even if you stagger some earlier indicas and later sativas this is an absolutely tremendous amount of trimming to do, because it might take more like 24 hours of work to finish a single plant (depending on size, harvest yield, and "leafiness."

Honestly, I think you need probably a 2 man team to chop down your trees for hanging, and stripping of the largest (easiest to remove) fan leaves. Then you'll want another 3-4 man team working the trim, operating the auto-trimmer, and packing everything into jars for curing.

In total, it'll probably be 4 weeks from the first plant you chop down to the last leaf you trim with a team and a garden this size. That's working 8 to 12 hour days...

Figure 60 plants is going to harvest you anywhere from 60 to 600 lbs. Really hard to count your eggs before they hatch... But if it takes me a week to POWER through about 1lbs of harvest... you're looking at, at least, 3000 man hours just for trimming. The auto-trimmer will do the work of 5 people... so that can really save you in the end if you cannot get people to help out trimming.

But, that's a long ways away and you shouldn't let a large, and profitable, harvest deter you just because it is going to be more work than you had wanted. More work is a good thing. You know what they say about idle hands.

could always ask other patients to come and help you trim and just pay them in meds

My idea for a med setup is that all patients(health considered) have some hand in the process. For me and those that I caregive for, that means watering when I'm out of town and trimming over a cold beer or a good J. That is their payment. After all patients have acquired the meds they project they will need, any overage would go to a dispensary for compensation of growing cost and time.

budlover13 said:

My Sour Diesels were a pain in the butt to trim, but the Snowcap were quick and easy.

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LOL...I have 6 SD's here. Along with White Widow, Casey Dog, Blue Dream, GrandDaddy, and OG Kucsh, I think I'm gonna need a Trimmer.

budlover13 said:

My idea for a med setup is that all patients(health considered) have some hand in the process. For me and those that I caregive for, that means watering when I'm out of town and trimming over a cold beer or a good J. That is their payment. After all patients have acquired the meds they project they will need, any overage would go to a dispensary for compensation of growing cost and time.

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One of the patients may not last until harvest. Pancreatic Cancer. (Please say a prayer for all of our friends in this condition) Two of the others are in Stage 4 Cancer and probably wont come. But one of these offered to have her 22 year old son come and help, so I'll let him come during trimming. The remaining 2 cardholders are coming throughout the lifecycle to assist in watering, and of course harvest. So four people, 6 different strains (which may flower at a slightly spread out interval), it may just work out with the Auto-Trimmer. I had never heard of this device, to major thumbs up for introducing this device to me.

ED

Bunch of videos on youtube for auto trimmers if you want to see one in action.

Can't wait until I have enough ladies in my room to warrant getting one!

RIU'ers,

Its been far too long since I updated this post. I didn't really intend to "Journal", but I owe it to guys like TMB and Snow to pay more attention. I had a number of PM's on this, and so I'll post a quick update.

Chapter 1.

Really Bad Weather For First Five Weeks

Chapter 2.

Gratuitous picture of holes filled with plants goes here. X


This is just a bit shy of two months. Every 6 holes is a different variety. In some cases, my personal preference for Sativa has 48 holes dedicated to Sativas. Hard to grow. Waah.

Up close look at White Widow, who really could give a damn what the weather is...Note I supercropped when she was just a baby....her branches now YAWN out.


I promise I'll post a bit more in a week when I have happier news. Right now I have to go shovel hail.
j/k, but not my much...

Stay tuned next week and I'll take readers votes (until then) for pictures of Kush, Two (Dude, he forgot their names) Varieties which one of our members planted, Purple Urkel, Casey's Dawg, Sour Diesel, or Mendo Afgoo....
E.D.

On that second pic the plant is revegging. But they all look good from what I can see. Keepem green dirrtyd

Dirty!! You're On.

Man, you wouldn't believe it. I am fighting with early flowering. I have another post related to that, hence my lack of entries here.

I got one plant, sitting next to her sister, in full bud growth, while her sister has 1/10 the progression. Go figure.

Some more gratuitous pictures...We are going to get warm weather this week, and I think the plants will top 5' by June 17th.

SgtStadanko said:

Some more gratuitous pictures...We are going to get warm weather this week, and I think the plants will top 5' by June 17th.

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Update...because of the bad weather, they are just now topping 6 feet, but are entirely and completely yellow and dropping leaves. They are about 3-5 feet short of my July estimate because we lost 5 weeks of sunshine here. All the white widow (and only the white widow) are yellow like the sun. Working on that, and I'll cover that in the other post.