What up DGC?
I was listening to one of the latest shows and Scotty mentioned Bruce Banner’s “trim as you go” process (Not sure if that’s what he really calls it). I was just wondering if anyone else does this or if there’s any downside to a slow, whole plant drying (10-14 days) and then jarring up the untrimmed flower until you’re ready to smoke it or until you’ve got some extra time to spend manicuring?
I’ve been doing the same thing for years. I pluck off anything that’s yellow or brown at harvest and then I trim off any leaf that has no trichomes when it is dry and call it a day. The only real downside maybe is your harvest will take more space/jars to store. I think there is a great upside in that many of the trichomes are protected by the leaves, especially in larger bags where they can get tumbled or squeezed.
-TogetherMeow
Just heard the latest episode and the crew’s response to my question. I definitely pull all the fans before hanging the whole plant to dry. My concerns were mainly curing the buds with trich covered sugar leaves intact, and then following up with a touch up dry trim at a later time. Thanks for all the responses!
Kind of along the same vein as Togethermeow with the triche preservation. When I saw Banner’s weed I assumed his looser trim job was to not get too deep and molest those triches. I could very easily be wrong.
I’ve been doing that for about a year. I was actually kinda self conscious about it for a while because I didnt want people to think I had ditch weed but dude I just dont want to trim all of it lol. even from the first plant I knew trimming wasnt for me, the hunching over and looking down really jacks with my neck, back, hands all of it so I just trim the big leaves off and anything sticking out too far and jar it up furry lol. works great just looks raggedy but trust it smokes just fine. I think it comes down to, do you care what it looks like, is it worth your time and effort or would you rather just pick at a bud a couple times pre smoke.
This is great to hear! I don’t mind trimming up a jar or so every evening until my harvest is complete. It’s spending multiple hours hunched over that contributes to my aches and pains, as well.
I keep this one pheno in the garden specifically because its the easiest trim job you’ve ever seen for solid harvests of solid everyday smoke.