Got some scope pics this morning, i see mostly cloudy on calyx, few ambers on sugar leaf. Im going to give her 1 more water only today or tomorrow and let her dry out again. Thanks everyone for the advise, much appreciated.
I have a question, I am anticipating a wet trim in A couple of weeks. I want to keep the trim and freeze and then process for the kief. How do you dry the trim? Do need to or can I just chuck it straight into the freezer? Iām close to harvest and canāt find a good answer. Also could anyone let me know if Iām close enough to harvest? Thanks in advance.
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@SCBuckeyeGrower you dont have to harvest the whole plant at the same time. You can do an early cut, mid cut, and a late cut if you so choose. The flower looks as though, in the first photo, it still had some time left to bulk up a little, but the trichome would suggest an ok early cut. If you take the whole plant you will give up some volume for a more up type high. If you wait and all the stigmas turn brown you will max out the weight and get a more stoney product, its really that simple. Now if you are an outdoor enthusiasts, then waiting for the cold may enhance your terpine profile.
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āAlso make sure you only look at the buds with brown hairs not the sugar leaves as they are misleading.ā
Is this when checking tricomes? because I have been looking only at sugar leaves. first time grower.Thanks
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Yes the tricoms. They mature at different rates on sugar leaves vs the buds.
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You dont need to dry the trim if you plan on freezing it, this assumes you are using the trim for concentrates like dry ice or water extraction?
Yeah I know, i am just looking at other opinions. I know Im in the window, I watered today and will chop it down when it dries out. This is just for me and share some with close friends. Itās ginna provide plenty of smokable flower so Im not really to concerned with bulking, itās fat now. In all honesty this has been more about ne nit cutting too early which Iāve done before. I know sheās good and I have time before it starts degrading, Iāll probably chop her Wed or Thurs this coming week.
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Iāve just read that freezing helps the heads separate better(and itās less sticky). I was just gonna pass them frozen over my screens as is no fuss, no muss. Just wanted to know how to prep the trim before hand. I snatched one of the popcorn buds from the bottom (all milky a couple of amber)and tested it and itās for sure a head buzz but Iām gonna wait till I got those couch lock trichromes, ya dig?
So if Iām not using dry ice or water extraction what do I need to do to them to get them ready. And yes they are for concentrates.
Peace
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So lots of people do freeze it and it is probably the best way for storage, but i just jar mine up.
Iām not sure how others dry theres from a wet but i do wet trim sometimes (when Iāve done a heavy defoliation and not much to trim, if itās alot of trim i do it dry) dry trimming is way easier and faster as its brittle and leafs just pop right off with little effectā¦
But I simply leave my wet trim in whatever container i trimed into for a day or 3. Once off the plant it will dry super fast.
Once dry, i just stuff it into a jar of some sort and it sits on my self with the grove bags of nugs till i get around to doing something with it.
Sometimes its a full year and it doesnāt hurt it any.
Iāve never frozen mine except when Iām doing an alcohol extraction I will freez it just before i put it in the alcohol.
If kief is what your after i would consider dry trimming for sure.
Just trimming over some sorta screened tray will produce tons of kief as a byproduct and you still have tje trim of course to further process for eatables or considerateā¦ you can buy trim trays for or make your own screenā¦
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If you are like me, I do dry sift. I use 3 screens and do the sifting on a glass table in my sunroom, which is covered but outside. I wait until its below freezing and not windy, for obvious reasons. The only prep I do, is clean the glass and put the screens abd dope outside to let everything get to the same temperature. Then, when I screen nothing sticks to the screens or the card.
Generally Ill do trimming of decent buds first over the screens and clean that stuff off and then bounce yhe popcron buds without breaking them. That will be the first bounce materialā¦ or primo. I collect the primo and do a second bounce which includes breaking up the material and bouncing that. It normally gets more and more contaminated as you break down the material so ideally that stuff needs carding to clean it up. Or if you want you can make B grade commonly sold as AA hashish. That stuff wont bubble when you put a match to it. AAAA is basically the best you can get and is referred to as full melt.
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Yeah, the question is how to prep for dry screening. And ideally you should screen in a cold place because the resins have a tendency to stick when warm. We dont want that when screening.
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Okay that makes good sense, I guess I was just worried about mold but the way you explained it makes allot of sense. Thanks man I guess Iāll just go with the dry trim and avoid the extra headache and work. To be honest I wasnāt looking forward to it, I know how sticky you get just from breaking up enough for a joint canāt imagine how bad it would be trimming a fresh plant.
Peace
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I actually bought a trim bin for the dry sift. I looked into getting a screen set but couldnāt afford it after I had bought everything else. Itāll have to be something I do a little bit further down the line. I would love to try and make some hash but again with the money. Iāve never dabbed but Iād love to try it someday. I just wanted to get everything I could from my harvest without wasting anything. Right now Iām happy with the kief to super charge my smoke sessions and maybe some edibles. But thanks for the info Iām always happy to learn. Thanks.
Peace
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That is some very sedative looking gg.
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Latex gloves is a must have. I use mechanics latex gloves wear thry are thicker and dont rip as easy 
Iāve never purposely āscreenedā my trim fir keif.
I mean I do sift it and collect the keif from when i trim, that and what collects in my grinders is more then I ever use for anything.
I most aways make either butane extract or alcohol extraction then eatables sometimes from the concentrates.
Other them sometimes makeing moonrocks I donāt use my keif for anything now that I think about it 
Iāve got a bunch and more every 4 months just building up
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Oh man i just saw the āIāve never dabbedāā¦
So you have to check out youtube and how to Safely make BHO at home .
Itās super easy and can be super dangerous 
I just want be clear anytime I talk about this because you can absolutely mess your self up bad if youāre not smart when doing it so full disclaimer. You can die!
But collecting keif for hash days is over. Some stilm do it but theres such way easier ways and you get better hash even 
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Now the screen on the trim bin is pretty large in the micron department. You could buy a finer screen and then card the crap out of that. Like if you look at that under magnification you will see all kinds of contamination, bits of leaf, small pieces of calyx, stigma chunks etc. Its that stuff that keep the kief from being full melt. It will still make A grade hashish but not AAA and definately not AAAA. Proper carding through the right screen will clean almost all of the shit out of that keif. And yes it takes skill and practice, it also helps to watch some videos on it. Some guys use static.
You can actually see this ball sagging its literally melting while it sits there.
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Im still learning. If i need a finer screen can the trinbin screen be replaced with a finer screen???