I read or watch growers do either a dry trim or a wet trim before hanging. I have had two harvest so far. The first was a total dry trim. The second I trimmed the big leaves and some wonky smaller leaves. For more experienced growers, what has been the difference or is there one. I have my current crop hanging in a 55 humidity controlled tent and seems to be drying at a good slow pace. I want to perfect the curing process, but I am still inexperienced. Thanks in advance for your help. This forum has been a gods send.
Some people prefer wet trim, others prefer dry trim. Personal preference, find what works for you.
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I prefer dry trimming as it goes a bit faster for me than wet trim, also plants take a little longer to dry with the leaves intact til the end, slower dry makes for a better cure IMO. Dry trimming also doesn’t gum up the trimmers as quick as wet trimming so can go longer before trimmer cleaning/swapping. Just don’t start dry trimming too late, don’t want the plants to get too dry waiting to be trimmed, better a little moist than too dry.
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I on the other hand prefer wet trimming. Yes your trimming shears will gut gummed up, but I can get closer to the stems buy bending the buds.
Then I’ll trim sugar leafs off after cure as I need to. As @Hellraiser said it’s all personal preference and you need to find what works for you.
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I live in the desert and have a really hard time getting and or keeping the RH up. It’s not unusual for my RH to be below 20% so I literally have to boil water to get it above 50% then the temp gets to flippin high. I’ve found a couple tricks along the way to help slow down the dry. If you wet trim and hang bud here it’s powder dry in 3 days.
Thank you. I will see how the latest harvest with wet dry goes. It was much easier than dry trimming. I wasn’t sure if it effected the overall curing process, but it doesn’t look like it.
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You washing them first? 5 gal water one cup hydrogen peroxide. It’s the “new thing”.