Bowl Trimmer Tips and Tricks

Hipposcottamus1

Hipposcottamus1

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I finally broke and got a bowl trimmer after years of hand trimming my hands and wrists can no longer handle it.

The time it has saved me is incredible but the quality hasn't been quite there for me. I feel I will need to do a light hand trim regardless.

Hoping for some tips if anyone has any to get a closer cleaner trim.

Using a 19" bowl trimmer with serrated blade for dry trimming. Turning both ways about 10-15 turns.

I know I won't get the same as hand trim but hoping someone with experience has some.suggestions.

Thanks
 
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Rsawr

Rsawr

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I do mine wet right after harvesting and then use a drying rack. Also a 19" bowl.
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You can see several leaves a hand trimmer would probably have plucked still attached, but I like the quality as a whole. I found dry trimming beat the buds up a little more, and left leaf shards in some of them.
 
TCH

TCH

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I also wet trim. I have the smaller 13" trimmer. I am the world's slowest trimmer and may still be, but this saves me sooooo much time. As I empty the grate, I inspect and toss the buds on a cookie sheet. If they need a quick touch up, I hit em with the scissors.
 
PopAndSonGrows

PopAndSonGrows

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My dad also has developed hand & wrist issues to where hand trimming is a no-go. He ponied up for a Trim Bag and the finished buds look good. He has to flick an occasional leaf off with a scissor blade, but tumbling a bag of buds for a couple mins vs fucking up his wrists for hours is a priceless tradeoff

Personally, I've always preferred the overall look of dried flowers. Dry trimming is also easier IMO, the trimming implements don't get so caked with wet resin
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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PopAndSonGrows said:
My dad also has developed hand & wrist issues to where hand trimming is a no-go. He ponied up for a Trim Bag and the finished buds look good. He has to flick an occasional leaf off with a scissor blade, but tumbling a bag of buds for a couple mins vs fucking up his wrists for hours is a priceless tradeoff

Personally, I've always preferred the overall look of dried flowers. Dry trimming is also easier IMO, the trimming implements don't get so caked with wet resin
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I have the advertised 19" electric bowl trimmer that is actually 16" measured. The trick for me is turning the bowl on so it's moving slowly, then adding the buds for a steady roll. That way there is no static coefficient of friction where the bud sticks to the bowls open base under which the knives are. So the buds are always rolling and there's less shearing on the buds than from starting and stopping. When I stopped/started I got a more choppy looking trim.

Anyway I love mine and get a nice product.
 
shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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I like my machine trimmed bud better than my hand trimming. I also have an electric version and wouldn't be without one now.

I trim fresh bud. My one experience with dried launched a lot of trichomes into the air and on the floor. My unit lacks a lid that could control that but trimming wet eliminates the problem too
 
EhCndGrower

EhCndGrower

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I have an upright motorized TrimPro machine and thank god I do for my outdoor harvests. I admit the buds don’t look the frostiest when they come out but it saves my wrists and hours of time. I gotta take down my outdoor Slurricane today and looking well past 1300g wet, and that machine helps me finish everything in roughly 3-4 hours on my own. From cutting the plants down, cutting in buds, washing and then TrimPro. Needed it after my first outdoor attempt of a Fruity Pebbles took over 10hrs with 3-5 people working in and out of rotation. Plus I had wrist surgery done 4 yers ago and the machine saves my hands/wrists from hurting. Never had the room to hang dry my plants, use to paper bag dry with sometimes mixed results, but now I freeze dry my stuff and couldn’t be happier. Here’s a pic of my latest harvest of G13’s Blue Cindy and what the TrimPro did. Could probably give my blade a sharpening soon, but still doing well enough for me.

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RottyRzr

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Tmik

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Star Dog said:
Are there any bowl trimmers you folk's would recommend to buy or avoid?
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i use the 16” acinfinity trimmer. The 16”s are big, the 19” are massive. I typically do 1 or 2 plants at a time, wet trimmed and then to the Cannatrol. I have never used it for dry trimming. It appears many are identical, just rebranded to who ever is selling them. They normally come with 2 blades, one for wet, one (serrated) for dry. The difference in volume between the 16” and 19” would be one less batch to process on a plant for the 19”. Processing a batch takes 45 seconds after you trim fan leaves and buck the buds from stems. It cuts trim time by 70% or more from hours to minutes. Trichrome loss wet trimming is not as bad as you would imagine it would be.
 
medidedicated

medidedicated

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I have a bud trimmer Id ship to someone for free if it werent covered in weed. Also too shy to do so but yea never using again. Im hash only make only flower rosin and these things take up to half the hash yield. Even if I did smoking flower that technically can make it weaker.

I know with weed smoke youre always touching buds and grinding them up which loses hash. Its just a matter of handling and they do say weed thats less handled is stronger.
 
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