Wet or dry trim?

just curious on how you guys like to trim. Do you trim when you chop or after the drying period. I tried wet and it seemed like I had a lot of sticky icky on my shears and seems like a waste. Let me know what works for you guys
Thanks

I trim off all the big fans and the easy to get to sugar leaves wet. Anything i have to dig for, i'll leave and dry trim before i jar.

Trim a few of the lager fans as I'm chopping into hanging branches. Then dry trim once dry. Any trimmings then go straight into the concentrates jar.
I only rough trim, not sure why people have sugar leaf hate.

Scape off oil on the scissors with a razor blade and smoke or dip the scissors in alcohol,you can then use this if you want in any hash oil concentrate you may make.

Depends how much work there is... Green trimming is LOADS faster.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

I trim off all the big fans and the easy to get to sugar leaves wet. Anything i have to dig for, i'll leave and dry trim before i jar.

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This! I am super lazy and it is the least work... Especially if you are making some concentrates or edibles with the larfy/non primo buds.

I trim dry. Helps with my drying times in SoCal. Dont want my plants getting crispy in three days, so I leave the trim and even the large fans on and get 7-10 days drying time when humidity is low

If your humidity is low leave all leafs on hang the complete plant to slow drying time

I wet trim, trimmings go to hash and scissorhash gets smoked as we go for....inspiration

Dry trim here + some fan leaves stay on until dried. The fan leaves form a 'sheath' around the drying buds to protect from dust, etc. It takes a lil longer but I feel like its a more 'even' less harsh dry. I also remember hearing somewhere that when you wet trim you 'agitate' the chlorophyll which ends up on your buds but I don't know how true that is? gotta take everything you hear online with a grain of salt

I leave the buds on big stems, then separate & dry trim before jarring.

Lucky Luke said:

I only rough trim, not sure why people have sugar leaf hate.

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I have theories:

1. Because they read or heard it was cool to hate the sugar leaves, and they want to be cool.
2. They don't remember the days of getting whatever weed you could get because it wasn't legal anywhere, and don't know that the average dispensary bud (at least in my experience) is better than anything that was available back then -- and it still did the job. Or conversely, they DO remember and don't want to go back to those days!!
   
3. They prefer the taste of as much bud only as possible.

One thing a few mentioned here that I see left out of a lot of these threads is the dry room conditions. Humidity in particular. If it's really dry in your environment, you'll want to do what you can to SLOW the drying process. If it's excessively humid, you might consider trimming more up front. Or do a little of both, see which works out best.

for me it's mostly bag appeal. the stuff i keep for myself has sugar leaves all over it, the stuff i sell doesn't, because people don't like it. if they didn't care, i wouldn't bother, but they do.

Most people buying flower/bud don't want to pay for leaf weight.
I squish most of my personal into sap, so I don't trim the sugar leaves.

I’ve dry trimmed for years and hang the whole plant, humidity is around 60%-75% temps 15-20degrees takes 13-14 days to be ready for jars. Does take a little longer to dry trim but I don’t mind.

Just did a harvest last night and did a rough cut, I will prob clean it up when it’s dry. Or maybe just leave it lol only my wife and I smoking it.

Anything with a stem protruding from the stalks on it get's chopped off at harvest time, bud leaves stay.
I consider this wet trimming as there really is no trimming required after that as the bud leaves shrink to pretty much nothing when dry.

It all comes down to personal preference and timing.

If you don't mind smoking sugar leaves, then only remove the fan leaves at harvest time and your all set.

If not, you should remove the sugar leaves at harvest time whenever you are in a location where humidity is high and the temps are low and also if you don't have too much to harvest at the same time.

Ideally, the best quality and best looking buds will be obtained by doing a dry trim. I will slow down the drying time thus preserving most of the terpenes!

I do half and half wet trim down the sides dry hang and then manicure once is dried then thrown in jars once I find the aroma most appealing after burping 2-3 weeks I throw in a boveda 62% humidity pack and leave it sealed what do you do @C-theGrower ?

Wats good fellas.. Wat I find best for me. Is a dry trim. I take all the bigger fan leafs off. Snap the whole plant off. Hang it in a nice dark place with a humidity at 65% for about 7 to 10 days or when I hear that nice snap..
Once I hear that snap I do a nice manicure trimming job. Put em in a jar. (Air tight) And burp em at least once a day for about a week.. shout out @Dear ol" Thankful Grower!

Chop the plant at the base before the lights come on, hang and slow dry in climate controlled room for 10-14 days, carefully dry trim by hand over a trim bin and then jar. This method improved my quality exponentially.