Bowl trimmers

[JWPcinders]

Okay so I have ALOT of bud that is going to need trimmed, I will be removing all fan leaves by hand and allowing them to dry. A local hydro store rents bowl trimmers. Is it a good idea to use a bowl trimmer with dry bud?

 

[bobrown14]

depends on your quality. You have craft grown organic..... That gets hand trimmed. You have a ship ton of middies go for it.

Personally, hand trimming if you've never done it before its a right of passage.

 

[SamSmith]

The better ones I have looked at have different blade setups for wet and dry trims. I hate trimming so if I had a ton to do I would look into it.

 

[bobrown14]

Its not that bad. I've been trimming for the last month and I have another 2 weeks to go.

 

[Pennywise]

I had a bowl trimmer but after the first harvest went through it I went back to hand trimming.

 

[bobrown14]

I have a bowl trimmer.... its still in the box on a shelf in the storage room.

 

[SamSmith]

Personally, hand trimming if you've never done it before its a right of passage.

You would say that... ;-) I don't grow many plants that require trimming at the same time so I always get stuck for hours with the sissors. There is a craft/art form to trimming buds out by hand. Appearance is better trimmed by hand with less waste.

 

[Marzbadrock]

I just used a bowl trimmer for my first time. It was on dry cured bud. My first attempt i went to ling n fucked up my bud. Second run was pretty good. I did 10 cranks one way, 10 cranks the other. Did 80% of the work. I have a trim bag showing up Monday or Tuesday I am going to try. Been hearing lots of good things.

 

[bobrown14]

Well for me its what is the first thing someone sees when they look at my flowers. So yeah its important for bag appeal. Nothing says crappy weed like a big flower covered in leaves or even half leaves.

 

[SamSmith]

Well for me its what is the first thing someone sees when they look at my flowers. So yeah its important for bag appeal. Nothing says crappy weed like a big flower covered in leaves or even half leaves.

With the risk of offending those that leave a lot of sugar leaves on their bud. I 100% agree. I didn't spend months growing flowers to see dried crinkled leaves all over it.

 

[Marzbadrock]

With the risk of offending those that leave a lot of sugar leaves on their bud. I 100% agree. I didn't spend months growing flowers to see dried crinkled leaves all over it.

I've got a batch of bud that has had water leaves removed, big stems removed, dry and being cured. Ill run through trimbag Monday or Tuesday. I will post back with results.

 

[JWPcinders]

depends on your quality. You have craft grown organic..... That gets hand trimmed. You have a ship ton of middies go for it.

Personally, hand trimming if you've never done it before its a right of passage.

I believe my stuff to be quite good quality haha. O believe me I spent 20 hours hand trimming the final product this week. Thats the reason I am looking for a solution. Watch my journal later I am going to update with some pictures

 

[Marzbadrock]

I believe my stuff to be quite good quality haha. O believe me I spent 20 hours hand trimming the final product this week. Thats the reason I am looking for a solution. Watch my journal later I am going to update with some pictures

Luckily you only had 20 hours!

 

[JWPcinders]

I just used a bowl trimmer for my first time. It was on dry cured bud. My first attempt i went to ling n fucked up my bud. Second run was pretty good. I did 10 cranks one way, 10 cranks the other. Did 80% of the work. I have a trim bag showing up Monday or Tuesday I am going to try. Been hearing lots of good things.

This is what I was thinking if I take it easy to start with a few turns and see how it turns out. I dont mind doing a little clean up as long as it eliminates the bulk of the dried leaves

 

[Marzbadrock]

I found the speed you turn makes a difference to. Try one out, play around with it.

 

[JWPcinders]

I found the speed you turn makes a difference to. Try one out, play around with it.

Yeah for $25 a day rental id be stupid not to try it at least

 

[JWPcinders]

This is what im dealing with lol

 

[Stunned]

I thought about getting a Trim Bag to save time.
But when the idea was discussed here a few months back, the overwhelming opinion of it was negative.
After thinking about it for awhile, I had to agree that this isn't the way I want to treat my buds
So.... still hand trimming
I believe it was @Nunyabiz and his reasoning that finally convinced me.

 

[bluter]

good trimmers are costly. really good trimmers are heartstopping costly.

good trimmers are meant to process. they aren't meant to craft. at the point you need a trimmer it is sort of assumed you need the former over the latter. just keep it in mind.

 

[Hrenklin]

Here is a sample of what jy buds look like dry trimmed with a bowl trimmer