Trimming foxtails

I'm trimming a highly foxtailed plant...what the hell is a foxtail? Calyx? Leaf? How do I trim it? Looks odd when I cut one in half. Guessing its bud material? I've been trimming the leaves around them and keeping the tails in tact. How will they spoke after dry and cure?

Soul Dwella said:

I'm trimming a highly foxtail plant...what the hell is a foxtail? Calyx? Leaf? How do I trim it? Looks odd when I cut one in half. Guessing its bud material? I've been trimming the seaves around them and keeping the tails in tact. How will they spoke after dry and cure?

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A foxtail is just a group of stacked calyx. Calyx usually form in groups and make up the normal bud/flower you see.

Sometimes through stress or genetics the calyx will start to stack vertically instead of forming those compact groups. When it does this you get the foxtail effect.

Perfectly smokeable material, just lacks the bag appeal some people are looking for.

So you aren’t supposed to cut those little spirals off?

"Trimming Foxtails" is a good name for band.

No you don't cut them off. They are there to remind you that heat stress and/or goofy genetics exist in an otherwise perfect world.