MMJ Dreaming 99
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iPower and others make them. About $150 to 180. I watched a few videos and they looked okay. Some people may say hand trimming is gentler but a few videos the guys said hand trimmers can sometimes do as much damage
Has anyone tried those bowl trimmers that looks like a salad spinner?
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diamonddav
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yea I just bought the I power one and used it for 2 times in one night, never again! it raped the fuck out those buds, so many hairs and little pieces of buds were in the bottom of the bowl. I fukin hate trimming weed too, but I will NOT use that trimmer again, I offered it to a buddy for$100 with all the trimmings in the bowl! and I paid 150 for it
WeedFreak78
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I have one I've used once. I've only kept it for the SS bowl. Tears up buds, destroys trichs on trim, whatever rubber they used for the gasket imparted a rubber taste on the concentrate made from the trim. 0/5 stars.
OldMedUser
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I have pretty severe arthritis that makes hand trimming torture for me so bought a Trimpro Unplugged at half price, still $300, and will sell it for half that to the first bidder!
Just glues the sticky bud leaves to the buds and takes twice as long to snip them out as it does fresh off the plant.
I just changed my grading procedure so I end up with lots more sugar trim and popcorn nugs in the oil pot to cut down on snipping time. Still takes way too long.
Just glues the sticky bud leaves to the buds and takes twice as long to snip them out as it does fresh off the plant.
I just changed my grading procedure so I end up with lots more sugar trim and popcorn nugs in the oil pot to cut down on snipping time. Still takes way too long.
chemphlegm
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wow, as my fingers curl under I often saw this as my option, maybe in a few years or so. I dont mind trimming, but realistically I waste like a mutha, cost of doing biz. good enough. all good here, if it wasnt I'd be fooked though, now what trimmer is good? I can trim 16 oz wet down to final buds in 1.5 hour....currently. I save very little under 24-28 inches from topI have pretty severe arthritis that makes hand trimming torture for me so bought a Trimpro Unplugged at half price, still $300, and will sell it for half that to the first bidder!
Just glues the sticky bud leaves to the buds and takes twice as long to snip them out as it does fresh off the plant.
I just changed my grading procedure so I end up with lots more sugar trim and popcorn nugs in the oil pot to cut down on snipping time. Still takes way too long.
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Hammerhead571
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The SS bowl works great as a bowl lol.. These work best with super dry flowers. Hand trimming will do as much damage as you want lol. If done right there is no better way.
OldMedUser
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I'm going to see if I can get store credit from the shop I bought it from first. Otherwise I'd likely let it go for that if the buyer pays the shipping. The shop is a 5 hour drive away so I'd have to ship it to him anyways. Only in Canada tho.
I trim as I remove the buds from the plants so I can slow dry them for about 10 days or more before going into jars for burping. It worked fine on buds that dried out on the plants by accident tho it beats them up pretty good. Lots of really good trim for making oil and hash with tho.
With wet buds it's not so good.
OldMedUser
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What do you do with all the stuff below your cutoff line? Donate it to needy patients if not making oil out of it I hope. I found a method for turning fresh green pot into cocobudder so froze all my trimmings and popcorn bud to do it up that way or dry it out later and make kief/BHO with. Saved me a lot of time messing with the smaller buds tho made a smallish yield even smaller I got about a pound of dry trim and older pot laying around from the last couple of grows to process yet.
I've convinced the wife that helping me with my indoor garden will be beneficial to her bottom line and should be able to get her daughter on board this winter too so I don't have to give away a big chunk of my crops to hire help.
WeedFreak78
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MMJ Dreaming 99
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A fellow on the DIY secction on the forums here did a DIY like this with I think a cheap dremel copy from Harbor Freight or something. It is worth looking at.
giglewigle
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i saw somthing once on youtube one of em was like a set of heir clipper u know those vibrating things but it looked more like a comb maybe u could rig somthing up and anouther guy had somthing attached to the end of a vaceum and it sucked up all the trim into a bag it was a good concept i thought im surprised thats not comman plance was a fucken good idiaI have pretty severe arthritis that makes hand trimming torture for me so bought a Trimpro Unplugged at half price, still $300, and will sell it for half that to the first bidder!
Just glues the sticky bud leaves to the buds and takes twice as long to snip them out as it does fresh off the plant.
I just changed my grading procedure so I end up with lots more sugar trim and popcorn nugs in the oil pot to cut down on snipping time. Still takes way too long.
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chemphlegm
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What do you do with all the stuff below your cutoff line? Donate it to needy patients if not making oil out of it I hope. I found a method for turning fresh green pot into cocobudder so froze all my trimmings and popcorn bud to do it up that way or dry it out later and make kief/BHO with. Saved me a lot of time messing with the smaller buds tho made a smallish yield even smaller I got about a pound of dry trim and older pot laying around from the last couple of grows to process yet.
I've convinced the wife that helping me with my indoor garden will be beneficial to her bottom line and should be able to get her daughter on board this winter too so I don't have to give away a big chunk of my crops to hire help.
thing its my scraps are every bit as awesome as my colas. I give that all away then who wants to help pay for my electricity?
I do gift, I usually match the purchase believe it or not, as long as the patient is consistent.
I have strict limits on plant counts, oil and weed on hand. one pound of weed or scraps and I could lose my life collections. I aint in it to make cash, only to stay legal and be able to smoke he best herb in the world for my labor/space trade. Oodles of grade oil, oodles of grade a hash nobody likes edibles in my group, oodles of star colas.....no need for larfy fluff is all.
answer, I throw it into my rabbit cages. It hurts so much so I attempt to grow nothing below that, but rabbit happen
WeedFreak78
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I've thought about just using hair clippers, but then I saw sheep shears. I wonder how well they'd work
Carolina Dream'n
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If you like all your bud to look like broccoli and taste like grass...be my guest.
Those things belong in the trash. Along with any bud it trimmed.
giglewigle
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iv never used one never even trimmed i get it if u dude nas arthritas or somthing but take the time i say
OldMedUser
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The big question isn't how well they work but how hard they are to clean when they get gummed up.I've thought about just using hair clippers, but then I saw sheep shears. I wonder how well they'd work
The OG#18 I just did were the worst in a long time for goo on the blades. Needed scraping every third bud and a good clean ever three scrapings. Got lots of scissor hash tho.
We had a bunny that loved fan leaves but never gave it anything with crystal on it.
WeedFreak78
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The heads usually pop off. Get some spares and keep a bowl of alcohol handy, I'd suggest 180 proof grain. Just keep swapping and soaking as they gety sticky. Wash them all in the alcohol when done, then evaporate to get the concentrate.The big question isn't how well they work but how hard they are to clean when they get gummed up.
The OG#18 I just did were the worst in a long time for goo on the blades. Needed scraping every third bud and a good clean ever three scrapings. Got lots of scissor hash tho.
We had a bunny that loved fan leaves but never gave it anything with crystal on it.
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cat of curiosity
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i have this one, great for round buds, med speed. it will eat them if you dont pay attention. ten times faster than hand. not as good as hand trim, but when you need to process a few pounds quickly, it is well worth the headache. also, have to inspect for missed leaf, every now and then a fuzzy one kicks out the shoot too soon.
https://www.ebay.com/p/Professional-2-in-1-Automatic-Bud-Trimmer-Leaf-Trim-Reaper-Pro-HPS-MH-Hydroponic/2120120195?iid=201755134337
upgrading to this one in a month or two...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Twister-T4-Trimmer-Leaf-Trimming-Machine-Automatic-Bud-Trim-Wet-or-Dry-/263085566082?hash=item3d411f2882:g:AksAAOSwEH9ZZngv
https://www.ebay.com/p/Professional-2-in-1-Automatic-Bud-Trimmer-Leaf-Trim-Reaper-Pro-HPS-MH-Hydroponic/2120120195?iid=201755134337
upgrading to this one in a month or two...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Twister-T4-Trimmer-Leaf-Trimming-Machine-Automatic-Bud-Trim-Wet-or-Dry-/263085566082?hash=item3d411f2882:g:AksAAOSwEH9ZZngv
OldMedUser
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I doubt I'll ever have need of a pro machine like that Twister tho the first one looks pretty good.
I have to decide in the next few weeks if I even want to increase my growing level or just fumble along as I have been. Along with higher yields will come higher risk to get rid of the excess and I'm not sure if I want to go there. A lot of scum-bags around here in the drug trade and I prefer they don't know me at all. The few people I know that toke or use pot medicinally aren't into it for making money and I don't want to shop around for dealers.
Maybe I'll get lucky on my trip to BC soon and find some legit work in the pot industry out there and only come back here to pack up and stick a For Sale sign in the front yard.
I have to decide in the next few weeks if I even want to increase my growing level or just fumble along as I have been. Along with higher yields will come higher risk to get rid of the excess and I'm not sure if I want to go there. A lot of scum-bags around here in the drug trade and I prefer they don't know me at all. The few people I know that toke or use pot medicinally aren't into it for making money and I don't want to shop around for dealers.
Maybe I'll get lucky on my trip to BC soon and find some legit work in the pot industry out there and only come back here to pack up and stick a For Sale sign in the front yard.