How To Trim Cannabis For Nice Buds?
Marijuana plants must be well cared-for and carefully harvested. Wear gloves and choose the time you trim your plants carefully. Trim the top off your plant to allow the leaves to get more light. Remove dead, yellow leaves and smaller buds from the lower portion of the plant. Don’t over-prune your marijuana plant or you could diminish its growth potential.
WHEN you prune is as important as HOW you prune
You can start thinking about pruning in the second week of the growing phase. At that time, your plant will have several internodes, and you’ll be able to see a bit how it’s growing. If you are growing an Indica plant, wait another week – they grow a bit slower than Sativas.
Since growing continues until the third week of flowering, you can prune up to the second week of flowering. This gives your plants some time to recover. They’ll always need a couple of days to recover after a pruning session.
Why Trim Your Weed?
Why you should trim your weedFirst things first. You want your cannabis to look good. If you’ve never trimmed weed before, the buds that come off a plant once its harvested look nothing like the buds you buy from the dispensary. Trimmed weed looks more appealing and takes on a more even appearance, and probably looks much like the buds you’re likely accustomed to smoking.
The little leaves that are on your untrimmed buds are known as sugar leaves. They have a lower concentration of trichomes which should be removed in order to open up the richer trichome content in the buds.
WHEN you prune is as important as HOW you prune
You can start thinking about pruning in the second week of the growing phase. At that time, your plant will have several internodes, and you’ll be able to see a bit how it’s growing. If you are growing an Indica plant, wait another week – they grow a bit slower than Sativas.
Since growing continues until the third week of flowering, you can prune up to the second week of flowering. This gives your plants some time to recover. They’ll always need a couple of days to recover after a pruning session.
Why Trim Your Weed?
Why you should trim your weedFirst things first. You want your cannabis to look good. If you’ve never trimmed weed before, the buds that come off a plant once its harvested look nothing like the buds you buy from the dispensary. Trimmed weed looks more appealing and takes on a more even appearance, and probably looks much like the buds you’re likely accustomed to smoking.
The little leaves that are on your untrimmed buds are known as sugar leaves. They have a lower concentration of trichomes which should be removed in order to open up the richer trichome content in the buds.
Step 1: choose the right time
Selecting the ideal time to cut your marijuana plants will be a factor impacting the quality of your crop.
Regardless of the week in the cannabis life cycle when you decide to harvest, the perfect time of day to do so is in the morning.
Step 2: harvest
Cut them at the base, one at a time. Cutting all your plants and leaving them lying there waiting to be trimmed makes no sense. You can harvest whole plants and / or branches, for which we recommend removing the largest leaves first. With the bulkiest material out of the way, it will be much easier to trim the buds. You can remove the large leaves before cutting the plant, so that it remains standing and it's easier, or after cutting it, as you prefer.
Step 3: Trim
Now, we finally get to trim buds! First, fill your tray with a reasonable amount of buds, not too many because it can get messy and disorganized that way. Next, we like to trim the stem at the bottom of the branch as closely as possible, but be careful, you don't want to dismantle the buds from the plant.
Following that step, we need to remove what we call the "crow's feet." These are little branches that resemble birds' feet, and are found at the bottom of the nugget.
How to Trim Cannabis?
We find it easiest to trim off at least some of the larger, prominent fan leaves while they’re still fairly wet. Removing bulky leaves helps promote drying. Additionally, as the leaves dry they will curl around themselves and the buds, which makes it more difficult to slip the trimming snips in there. On the other hand, after the cannabis has dried, the leftover leaves can become so brittle and loose that they are easy to flick off with the end of your snips or even a toothpick.
Fine Trimming
Once you have trimmed off as many leaves as you can, remove anything that is obviously not bud. But keep it short and sweet — those delicate little hairs covering your buds are packed full of THC and CBD, so touch them as little as possible and don’t trim them off. Once this step is finished, you can take your buds to dry.
Tools you will need:
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