Bowl Trimmer Tips and Tricks
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medidedicated
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This is nice for avoiding the manual scissoring. I might buy that. Found it looking for this video below.
Nice automated cheap trim setup said like 20$. Ive seen others I was looking for to show yall ended up finding this. Same thing.
Anyway yea hand trim sucks I whined and whined until finding out about bud trimmers. They dont always get a good cut but only done 2 strains. If its leafy it’ll suck regardless and if its good leaf/calyx ratio all the reason to quickly hand trim.
Let me dig up a few pics, they didnt get most leafs anyway that would of taken only a sec to snip. Ok so first pics show that and what the bud looks like from 2 strains. One was auto the other I grew for over a year, the last 4 pics show same pheno hand trimmed, very last photo is bud trim.
I didnt smoke the hand trim pheno I was too ruffled up that I suddenly got double the hash yield again. Realizing why. I bet you the hand trim is stronger it shows all its hash didnt look like the same weed.
The tumbling is whats doing it. Took a year to realize it because you dont see the missing hash, it disapears. Just one day said ok hand trim its just a couple oz and bam. Sometimes you get a little return on kief from trim but its not like it is hand trimming and pressing flower rosin.
If potency was your goal but yea it saves time and the weed is still weed but Id notice like you see here same pheno. It doesnt save THAT much time I honestly still took 16 hrs for 1.5-2 pounds. Maybe automated yes. Being hash only I cant take a 10% of 20% loss over machine trim.
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medidedicated
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I thought it was just me turning too much but wow some yall be turning it how many times? Lol. This was with me trying to let the bud trimmer do all the work but then applied some effort to pre trim some of them.. Just not really all that much better.
If you smoke weed you prolly think Im tripping but I lost thousands of dollars because of trimmers. So they make me flinch seeing that handling lol. When you can trim it as fast as you load it and take a few mins to spin it its really only helpful if its auto. Meaning you just load it but those machines cost a lot.
If you smoke weed you prolly think Im tripping but I lost thousands of dollars because of trimmers. So they make me flinch seeing that handling lol. When you can trim it as fast as you load it and take a few mins to spin it its really only helpful if its auto. Meaning you just load it but those machines cost a lot.
medidedicated
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I forgot I smoked some hand trimmed from this pheno I grew for a year now and remember it was not the same. Much stronger, tastier but wouldnt cure I tried a few times just harsh. I smoked a lot of the machine trimmed same pheo its suddenly weak and forgot about this. Love remembering things like that in this hobby.
It was my first time harvesting her I did a hand trim sample got 20% of better quality hash too. But the dread ful hand trim of a strain next to her got me, I bought a trimmer for the rest of the harvest and used it for a year almost. So I wondered what happened.
Then one day luckily had just a 2oz clone testing a new mini space same pheno. Decided to hand trim. So glad I did that took me from 12% to 20% which is really nice yield.
It was my first time harvesting her I did a hand trim sample got 20% of better quality hash too. But the dread ful hand trim of a strain next to her got me, I bought a trimmer for the rest of the harvest and used it for a year almost. So I wondered what happened.
Then one day luckily had just a 2oz clone testing a new mini space same pheno. Decided to hand trim. So glad I did that took me from 12% to 20% which is really nice yield.
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Week4@inCharge
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Hand trimming for half a day gets old.
Star Dog
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When I'm hand trimming I don't use scissors I prefer a skewer or pointed something, of you think about all that goes into opening, closing scissors 1000s of times each cut has to be aimed accurately so it's no surprise it's time consuming.
Using a pointed tool/skewer it's sort of like drawing full stops/periods on paper, you can sit your hands rested in your lap it's more a wrist movement and 10x faster and more a thorough job tbh.
Even horrible fox tails aren't terrible, on ave I can do 150g per hour that's a fraction of the time it would've taken me with scissor.
You should give it try it takes the sting out of trimming...obviously not that much I hear you say lol tbf ive a lot to catch up on.
Have a nice weekend folk's
Using a pointed tool/skewer it's sort of like drawing full stops/periods on paper, you can sit your hands rested in your lap it's more a wrist movement and 10x faster and more a thorough job tbh.
Even horrible fox tails aren't terrible, on ave I can do 150g per hour that's a fraction of the time it would've taken me with scissor.
You should give it try it takes the sting out of trimming...obviously not that much I hear you say lol tbf ive a lot to catch up on.
Have a nice weekend folk's
Week4@inCharge
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I can't even picture how you can trim with a chop stick.
Star Dog
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I'm basically picking the whole leaf out at the bottom, you can take a row in seconds bearing in mind it's dried.
tstick
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And after spending an entire weekend trimming by hand, I don't need any psychedelics in order to hallucinate! I go to sleep at night seeing nothing but sugar leaves and bracts!
Week4@inCharge
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I might just try this. Interesting.
Star Dog
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Yes bud give it try you've nothing to loose, tbh when 1st tried it, it was a wow moment I couldn't believe the speed I got through it 150g/1-3rd of a pound so roughly 3 hrs a pound.
Week4@inCharge
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coreywebster
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Kinda like cheese grating the buds.
Or even a potato rumbler
I mean all that matters is the end result .