deprave
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In this thread I want to discuss trimming tips and techniques hopefully we can share our tips and learn from each other and also laugh at each others silly trimming rituals or whatever.
So anyway I want to bring up ENEMY NUMERO UNO when it comes to trimming and that is PROCRASTINATION.
Every year there is the outdoor harvest celebration of sorts we all have our little rituals sitting around with friends and/or family trimming up the years outdoor harvest, jammin to tunes, sitting at the kitchen table smoking joints talking about politics or telling jokes or whatever silly ritual you and your friends do.
Sometimes some of us like to try and bring that ritual back for our indoor harvest we make a big deal out of it bringing each of our trimmers buds on a silver plate pop in some stand up comedy, twist up a couple fatties, or what have you - we tend to make sort of an event out of it.
So one day you decide - hey I am sick of trimming it takes way to long - and you curse it - ultimately one day you realize if you didn't procrastinate you'd be done a lot quicker. So now my indoor harvesting consist of me alone with my potted plant next to a drying box with about 20 minutes to spare.
Enemy #2 when it comes to trimming is ......drum roll...........Overdoing it or being a perfectionist - This slows down people a lot, they want to remove every leaf in every nook and crannie. Well I am here to tell you it doesn't matter folks! once it drys its going to look a heck of a lot better then it does from what your looking at, remember you don't need to butcher your buds because the close small leaves just kind of form into the bud and look natural if you trimmed it good enough - simply snip the tip of each leaf so its flush with the bud if you cant snip it at the base of the stalk - now say 20 to 30 snips you should be done with just about any branch on a typical indoor plant.
some more tips to reduce trimming workload for indoors:
1) Grow Smaller Plants
2) Always trim wet
3) harvest only when u find time, partial harvest when necessary - if you find 5 minutes today to do one branch then fine tomorrow you simply allocate another 5 minutes to do another branch
4)Harvest AT your drying area can also save some time in certain circumstances.
so to elaborate more on how I trim personally for noobies: Clip every stem at the stalk, clip every leaf at the stalk, now any leaf that is coming out of the bud clip it just so its flush with the bud....remember its not important how close the clip is because the leaf will generally dry into the bud anyway and make a nice uniform shape but just try to get it as close as you can. A lot of old timers dont even clip the leaves on the buds themselves - this is called in our circle old timer method or I like to call it the halfass way to trim! (joking) - I like to trim that way if its for myself but young people really dislike this style, if its for someone 50 or younger they wont appreciate it and they might even want a refund!
I admitted our silly summer trimming ritual above - we all sit around with plates full of branches to trim and usually listen to stand up comedy, music, or radio shows to pass the time so that we can still look at the buds and see where we are driving our scissors into - we designate one person for rolling joints to pass around.
So anyway I want to bring up ENEMY NUMERO UNO when it comes to trimming and that is PROCRASTINATION.
Every year there is the outdoor harvest celebration of sorts we all have our little rituals sitting around with friends and/or family trimming up the years outdoor harvest, jammin to tunes, sitting at the kitchen table smoking joints talking about politics or telling jokes or whatever silly ritual you and your friends do.
Sometimes some of us like to try and bring that ritual back for our indoor harvest we make a big deal out of it bringing each of our trimmers buds on a silver plate pop in some stand up comedy, twist up a couple fatties, or what have you - we tend to make sort of an event out of it.
So one day you decide - hey I am sick of trimming it takes way to long - and you curse it - ultimately one day you realize if you didn't procrastinate you'd be done a lot quicker. So now my indoor harvesting consist of me alone with my potted plant next to a drying box with about 20 minutes to spare.
Enemy #2 when it comes to trimming is ......drum roll...........Overdoing it or being a perfectionist - This slows down people a lot, they want to remove every leaf in every nook and crannie. Well I am here to tell you it doesn't matter folks! once it drys its going to look a heck of a lot better then it does from what your looking at, remember you don't need to butcher your buds because the close small leaves just kind of form into the bud and look natural if you trimmed it good enough - simply snip the tip of each leaf so its flush with the bud if you cant snip it at the base of the stalk - now say 20 to 30 snips you should be done with just about any branch on a typical indoor plant.
some more tips to reduce trimming workload for indoors:
1) Grow Smaller Plants
2) Always trim wet
3) harvest only when u find time, partial harvest when necessary - if you find 5 minutes today to do one branch then fine tomorrow you simply allocate another 5 minutes to do another branch
4)Harvest AT your drying area can also save some time in certain circumstances.
so to elaborate more on how I trim personally for noobies: Clip every stem at the stalk, clip every leaf at the stalk, now any leaf that is coming out of the bud clip it just so its flush with the bud....remember its not important how close the clip is because the leaf will generally dry into the bud anyway and make a nice uniform shape but just try to get it as close as you can. A lot of old timers dont even clip the leaves on the buds themselves - this is called in our circle old timer method or I like to call it the halfass way to trim! (joking) - I like to trim that way if its for myself but young people really dislike this style, if its for someone 50 or younger they wont appreciate it and they might even want a refund!
I admitted our silly summer trimming ritual above - we all sit around with plates full of branches to trim and usually listen to stand up comedy, music, or radio shows to pass the time so that we can still look at the buds and see where we are driving our scissors into - we designate one person for rolling joints to pass around.
