Wet or dry?

the great debate, dry trim or wet trim? And why?

Always trim dry; cut off any leaf that has a stem attached and hang to dry. 7-10 days. Once fully dried trim off the sugar leaf.
Increases potency and preserves terpenes, the sugar leaves sort of “protect” the bud by drying around them forming tighter nuggets which makes for better bag appeal. Plus it is much easier to further process the trim/looser bud into concentrate or edibles when it is dry.

Carbonfylter said:

the great debate, dry trim or wet trim? And why?

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I’ve done both. Wet tends to dry the bud too fast and doesn’t always have the best smell, although this isn’t always the case. I’ve had some pretty good wet trim. Dry gives a nice slow even dry, and smells amazing after curing for a while. Some people prefer one over the other. At the end of the day it really just boils down to preference.

I dry trim because my drying area is low humidity.

I need those leaves to lengthen the process.

It gives me an extra 4 to 5 days over wet trimmed weed.

I've done both and found dry is a right pain it takes hours per plant, when it's wet you can run around them fairly quickly.
Personally I don't think it makes a single bit difference, imo it's the temp and humidity that controls the drying period.

I hang dry whole, with or without fan leaves depending on the time of the year and Rh. After 7-10 days when the outsides are crispy I clip the buds into a paper bag roll it closed and leave it till it’s ready to smoke then I do the final trim. So the outsides are pliable, not crispy and not wet.

Has anyone had the luxury of trimming a kilo + of bud?
It's no fun, the enthusiasm for that soon wears thin let me tell you lol.

There has been times when I've done it over the space of week, i just left the plants in place dark for the duration, it's one of they jobs I can't face, I hate it.

I trim and dry in the pot and I'm done with it.

I do an initial trim outside when I am harvesting. I then wash all the buds and hang to dry. Then do a final trim which I save for edibles. I don't care to eat or smoke bird dropping, bugs and their droppings and all the dirt and dust that comes from an outdoor grow adjacent to a gravel road. It's easier to wash buds and sugar leaves when an initial trim is done right off.

Either way can be done correctly so in my opinion there is no debate. Do what works for you. I recently started doing more dry trimming because my back couldn't take wet trimming which requires me to stand for 8 hours etc. Drying the same thing, control your environment to suit the style of trimming. If you can't control your environment then it will choose which is best for you.

Star Dog said:

Has anyone had the luxury of trimming a kilo + of bud?
It's no fun, the enthusiasm for that soon wears thin let me tell you lol.

There has been times when I've done it over the space of week, i just left the plants in place dark for the duration, it's one of they jobs I can't face, I hate it.

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100%.

I never imagined I'd feel like this before harvesting that first time..

Trimming is my least favorite thing to do in the world. No upside

Everyone pretty much agrees that trimming while wet is easier than if you wait till it’s dry. You can even go so far as doing your trimming before you chop the plant down. As said when wet all the leaves stick straight out from the plant and this makes it much easier to trim away everything around the buds. Dry everything curls up and it takes a lot more care to trim down to the buds.

So really the question is why would anyone wait to trim till it’s dry when a wet trim is so much easier and faster? As was also pointed out leaving the trim on your buds slows down the dry and some believe that It enhances taste and smell.

For me I trim dry, but I also only give my buds a light trim prior to storing for the cure. As a result my buds lack that highly manicured look, but that doesn’t bother me since it’s the same bud regardless if it’s tightly manicured or covered in dry sugar leaves.

I mostly wet trim because I like to remove as much leaf as possible and I find dry trimming tedious.... erm... even more tedious.

I'm clearly not the only one that dislikes the job, I remember seeing a trimmer that attached to a vacuum iirc an advark it was called?
It cost silly money £600 sterling iirc but I did think about buying one.
I tried a dremmel rotary hand tool with a piece of strimer wire attached to it, it worked but it chuck bits of leaf everywhere.

My plan for my first harvest is to trim dry. My house is a bit drier than I'd like, the closet I'm planning on using to hang dry my bud is between 45 and 50% rh, a bit lower than I'd like for a nice slow dry. Hoping that leaving the sugar leaves on will slow it down just a bit.

If dry trimming sucks too much I just won't do it again.