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Grower, In today's issue... - Learn how to trim your buds so they look outstanding!
- Has your cannabis garden been attacked by mosaic virus?
- This week's trophy pic features a grower who fought a few problems along the way yet produced two incredible cannabis plants and harvested almost a pound of premium bud!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com) "Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier."
~Katy Manning This trimming tutorial is part of our "how to harvest cannabis" series:
How to Trim Cannabis Plants by Nebula Haze |
Why do growers trim cannabis buds in the first place? Harvest day has come! You are cutting down your cannabis
buds to trim before you dry and cure them. But do growers even need to trim their cannabis buds? In fact, why do growers trim buds in the first place?
- Appearance - In magazines, at the dispensary and in pictures online nearly all the buds you'll see are at least somewhat trimmed. This is the appearance we've come to associate with "good weed" and so untrimmed buds tend to look less appealing to many people
- Harshness - leaves are more "harsh" on your throat/lungs than straight bud when smoking cannabis, so trimming off extra leaf matter improves the "smoothness" of your buds when smoking
- THC Concentration - the sugar leaves on your buds inherently have a lower concentration of THC than bud (even trichome-encrusted ones!), which means that you're "getting" less THC gram-for-gram than with bud. Many growers want trimmed buds but don't want to waste any THC, so they process their trim to extract the THC in the leaves separately. You have endless options for getting the good stuff out of your leaves and other
trim, but my favorite ways are making dry ice hash, butter or canna caps. I sprinkle dry ice hash on top of bowls to skyrocket their potency, I use butter for edibles, and I love canna caps for the ability to easily dose edibles on the go!
An example of well-trimmed cannabis
buds
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Trim before or after drying? ("Wet Trim" vs "Dry Trim")
There are two schools of thought when it comes to
trimming cannabis. Many (most) growers trim their cannabis buds before drying them, though some growers wait until after the buds have already dried to trim their cannabis.
Trimming your cannabis before drying is known as a "wet trim" because the leaves are still wet during the trimming process. Trimming after the buds have already dried is known as a "dry trim" since your buds will already be
dried before you trim off the sugar leaves.
Most growers who choose to dry first will still usually remove all or most of the big fan leaves with their fingers. However, there are some growers who won't even remove those before drying, though that is much less common.
Wet Trim Example
- all leaves are removed before buds are allowed to dry Dry Trim Example - very little trimming is done before drying (only fan leaves are removed) Dry Trim Example - not even fan leaves were removed (this is less common) Do a "wet trim" because... - Easier
- Buds usually look better in the
end
Do a "dry trim" because...
- If the leaves haven't been trimmed it slows down the drying process, which can be helpful in a low humidity environment since you want buds to dry slowly after harvest
In practice most
growers trim their marijuana before drying their plants (wet trim) because trimming marijuana buds when wet usually produces "tidier" looking buds When I first started growing I didn't know anything about trimming. I knew you could do it before or after, but I didn't know the pros and cons of each.
From reading online, I could see that growers successfully use both methods, so there's not "right" or "wrong" way to do it.
However, although it seemed like people tended to trim right after harvest, I didn't trim my first plant before drying. Honestly it
was mostly because I was just too lazy at the time, but it was also because I figured it wouldn't make much difference.
After that experience, I knew I could never do it again! It was so hard to trim buds when the leaves are all curled up and dry instead of sticking straight out. I never was happy with how my "dry trim" buds came out even after spending hours trying to trim them. I've learned that most
of the time buds just look better and more "neat" when trimmed before drying!
This is an example of what untrimmed buds look like after they've finished drying. This is still superb bud, but I hope it helps you see how difficult it would be to remove all the dried green sugar leaves at this stage since they are all curled in instead of sticking straight
out! If sugar leaves are healthy and covered in trichomes, it's more common for growers to leave them on. This is what that might look like after the buds have been
dried: Although these cannabis buds are beautiful and the sugar leaves are absolutely covered in trichomes (so you know they have significant amounts of THC), the buds may possibly be slightly more "harsh" than if
all the sugar leaves had been trimmed away.
On the flip side, there are many people who prefer seeing trichome-encrusted sugar leaves on their buds, so in the end it's a matter of personal preference. There's no right or wrong way about it! Read more about trimming!
Does Your Plant Have Mosaic Virus?
by Nebula Haze |
Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) is a virus that is commonly found in tobacco plants which causes strange mottling symptoms in the leaves (a "mosaic"), slowed growth, and reduced yields. Some growers claim that cannabis plants can catch it too. Direct link to this article.
Here's a pic of a tobacco plant with TMV showing mottled leaves
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Here's a pic of a squash plant that has caught Mosaic Virus Euphorbia viguieri plant infected with mosaic virus Fun fact: TMV was the first virus ever to be discovered!
Can cannabis plants catch mosaic virus?
The mosaic virus has spread from tobacco plants and is
known to infect at least 125 species of plants, including tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and many types of flowers. But as of yet, it's not been proven to infect cannabis.
These pictures are possibly cannabis plants with mosaic virus. What do you think? Just regular plant problems or something
more?
Do these cannabis plants have mosaic virus? At this point, cannabis growers don't know whether these leaf symptoms are caused by mosaic virus, or something else!
The thing that really stinks about TMV is if it does affect cannabis plants, that also means it can travel from plant to plant by direct contact, just like the virus does in tobacco plants. It's known that the mosaic virus can also live in the soil, or be transferred from one plant to another via your hands.
Unfortunately few cannabis growers have the equipment or the means to test if a plant actually has TMV, and a lot of the leaf
symptoms could possibly be caused by other things!
Without proper testing, we pretty much have to go by comparing and guessing! I've never seen these symptoms myself in real life, but I would love to see it because I could test if I could get other plants to "catch" it via physical contact!
How do you
treat a cannabis plant has mosaic virus?
We're not sure if cannabis can catch TMV, but we do know how to treat it with all the other types of plants that catch mosaic virus.
Unfortunately when it comes to mosaic virus, there is no cure. An infected plant will have TMV forever, though it may
not always be actively showing symptoms. If you believe you have a plant with TMV, your main goal is to prevent it from spreading to other plants.
In greenhouse and commercial operations, the main way to deal with mosaic virus is to dispose of all affected plants, including any soil they were growing in, and enforce a strict policy of hand washing between touching plants. Luckily TMV probably won't kill
your plants, and it won't hurt you if you harvest the plant, but infected plants grow slower and end up producing smaller yields!
Have you ever seen cannabis plants infected by Mosaic Virus? Let us know!
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What great detail and amazing info! Thank u so much for taking the time to put this info out. I've graduated from Oaksterdam University and I've still learned a lot from ur website. Some of the best info on the smaller details that a lot of other people don't even mention. Thank u again and I love u
~Kevin
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~Vato Loco
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