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Machine abused Nugs...
- Thread starter Tonygreen
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You still have to snip a little bit, if you want it to look clean
Just a good holsom trimmer
Smoking some Sour Diesel. Not sure how anyone can smoke commercial compressed brick anymore.
I will never use a trim machine but dam managing minions is hassle! it took me 4 months to get all the flys, gnats, mice and other critters out of my house after trim scene. nasty ass wooks! this season all girl Japanese trimmers 
speak English on my scene and ur fired. leave a compost food bucket in my kitchen and ur fired. play lotus on my radio one more fuckin time and I will assault you.
speak English on my scene and ur fired. leave a compost food bucket in my kitchen and ur fired. play lotus on my radio one more fuckin time and I will assault you.Great plan, harm your bud by knocking trichomes off and then turn the waste into a chemically produced product with leftover butane residue. Yummy medicine bro.
It would help if med users and customers would accept buds with some small fan leaves attached - which I think they would if those leaves are covered with trichomes.
Why not just change the definition of product, grow golf-ball-y plants, and give each bud the time it takes to make -1- single snip - the one that cuts it off the stem.
Thinking back to when I was a consumer - I would have LOVED a bud with a few small fan leaves covered with resin ! I would have rolled the fan leaves (along with everything else) into a joint and called it a day - and it would have been good medicine.
I suppose to make this work you might facilitate it by doing the low-branch mid-harvest teeny-bud snip routine (the one to improve air circulation), perhaps outsourcing that to a less busy friend.
Why not let consumers have branches of buds ? Let the consumers manicure ? If it's well-packaged and well-presented, let's just say that's an approach that works in other industries.
As long as the buds are treated gently, and the prices massaged accordingly, WTF, why not ?
Why not just change the definition of product, grow golf-ball-y plants, and give each bud the time it takes to make -1- single snip - the one that cuts it off the stem.
Thinking back to when I was a consumer - I would have LOVED a bud with a few small fan leaves covered with resin ! I would have rolled the fan leaves (along with everything else) into a joint and called it a day - and it would have been good medicine.
I suppose to make this work you might facilitate it by doing the low-branch mid-harvest teeny-bud snip routine (the one to improve air circulation), perhaps outsourcing that to a less busy friend.
Why not let consumers have branches of buds ? Let the consumers manicure ? If it's well-packaged and well-presented, let's just say that's an approach that works in other industries.
As long as the buds are treated gently, and the prices massaged accordingly, WTF, why not ?
I have kept untrimmed buds that I didn't feel like trimming and saved for smoke. I think after some time theres an unpleasant smell left from the leaves.
here's a review of a machine I had extensive experience with.... made all in USA, assembled in denver:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=244010
most of y'all who've been around have prolly seen it before, but if you are not familiar with the satellite trim machine (and have not completely made up your mind against trim machines) i suggest you check out the thread above.
One thing i have repeatedly stressed is that many times large trimming machines are simply a necessity when an operation reaches a certain size. It's not a BAD thing to not NEED a trim machine, but once you hit that threshold, you could pay for a trim machine with the costs of paying trim teams to work long times on LARGE harvests. When i ran the mega warehouse i had to justify the cost of the machine (the investors ended up purchasing 2 sattrim machines in the end). We did a large harvest, paid trimmers to hand trim every bit, and i proved to them that within 6 months we could have paid for 2 machines just in the cost of hiring trim teams to hand trim.
ALSO, when working at that level it's not like trim teams are going to lose work. a crew of at least 3 (ideally more like 6) per machine is needed to prep plants, de-leaf (if not defoliated just prior to harvest by the gardener),and buck nugs off the stalk, one person to run the machine. its just a matter of working less time PER harvest.
finally, i should address the point of the thread, the "abuse".
IME with sattrim nugs are in and out of the machine in 3 minutes TOPS, sometimes much less time, leaving little time to beat up the buds. suffice to say if you grow decent herb and don't leave it in the machine too long (over 3 or 4 minutes)
not to say it gives a better trim than hand trimmers (who are inconsistent at best) but it is comparable.
/rant
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=244010
most of y'all who've been around have prolly seen it before, but if you are not familiar with the satellite trim machine (and have not completely made up your mind against trim machines) i suggest you check out the thread above.
One thing i have repeatedly stressed is that many times large trimming machines are simply a necessity when an operation reaches a certain size. It's not a BAD thing to not NEED a trim machine, but once you hit that threshold, you could pay for a trim machine with the costs of paying trim teams to work long times on LARGE harvests. When i ran the mega warehouse i had to justify the cost of the machine (the investors ended up purchasing 2 sattrim machines in the end). We did a large harvest, paid trimmers to hand trim every bit, and i proved to them that within 6 months we could have paid for 2 machines just in the cost of hiring trim teams to hand trim.
ALSO, when working at that level it's not like trim teams are going to lose work. a crew of at least 3 (ideally more like 6) per machine is needed to prep plants, de-leaf (if not defoliated just prior to harvest by the gardener),and buck nugs off the stalk, one person to run the machine. its just a matter of working less time PER harvest.
finally, i should address the point of the thread, the "abuse".
IME with sattrim nugs are in and out of the machine in 3 minutes TOPS, sometimes much less time, leaving little time to beat up the buds. suffice to say if you grow decent herb and don't leave it in the machine too long (over 3 or 4 minutes)
not to say it gives a better trim than hand trimmers (who are inconsistent at best) but it is comparable.
/rant
fuck a twister
fuck a twister
All women, non U.S. workforce is best.
Machine trimmed buds are shitty. The Twister is the worst imo,
I cant say its a bad idea to use one of the new dry trimmers to throw b buds into, being that b buds tend to pile up into brown paper bags quicker than we all would like, and they usually get forgotten about, when if trimmed and dispersed among the goods could pick you up a bunch of extra p's
I have yet to see a piece of machine trimmed nug that looked good. And its worse when you know most folks spray some nasty shit on those blades.
fuck a twister
All women, non U.S. workforce is best.
Machine trimmed buds are shitty. The Twister is the worst imo,
I cant say its a bad idea to use one of the new dry trimmers to throw b buds into, being that b buds tend to pile up into brown paper bags quicker than we all would like, and they usually get forgotten about, when if trimmed and dispersed among the goods could pick you up a bunch of extra p's
I have yet to see a piece of machine trimmed nug that looked good. And its worse when you know most folks spray some nasty shit on those blades.
As machines and robots will eventually enslave us all, its foreseeable that they're right now attacking our buds
i agree would rather buy a nice hand trimmed nug over machine trimmed... it would also be nice if consumers would by it with some sugar..leaves stll attatched.... but they wont.
n i dont get some peoples tones when talkng about machine trimmed... if u dont want it, dont buy it... wth is the pont of complaining that the general public doesnt know or care how it was trimmed... this is the land of bud, coors, etc..
most people are morons.. so i wouldnt hold my breath on the general pub holding some moral standard on how commercial od crops are trimmed.
again, if u dont like it, dont buy it... right?
it seems to me here on the east coast, people will generally happily pay less for machine trimmed decently grown blue dream than they would shelling out an extra dollar for hand trimmed or any other improvement really... it is what it is..
n i dont get some peoples tones when talkng about machine trimmed... if u dont want it, dont buy it... wth is the pont of complaining that the general public doesnt know or care how it was trimmed... this is the land of bud, coors, etc..
most people are morons.. so i wouldnt hold my breath on the general pub holding some moral standard on how commercial od crops are trimmed.
again, if u dont like it, dont buy it... right?
it seems to me here on the east coast, people will generally happily pay less for machine trimmed decently grown blue dream than they would shelling out an extra dollar for hand trimmed or any other improvement really... it is what it is..
Heck it provides work and builds community.
I'm sure there are some guys that are as good as women at trimming buds.
This is sort of off the subject - stoned thinking perhaps ? - I wonder if US prisons will ever provide out-sourced bud-trimming services.
Maybe in 50 years, Cannabis America will be so corporate, and Cannabis will be so widespread, that prisoners will trim bud as well as making license plates.
It's not a terrible idea, the trim would improve the lives of most American prison inmates.
Guy trimmers are ok, but the girls seem to care a bit more about the quality of the job, imo
HA! The misinformed, ill teach you something...
With the advances in Butane extracted hash in the last few years. I GUARANTEE, YOU inhale more butane when you use a lighter on your bowl, then I have residual in my BHO...
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Eureka Springs Organics
HA! The misinformed, ill teach you something...
With the advances in Butane extracted hash in the last few years. I GUARANTEE, YOU inhale more butane when you use a lighter on your bowl, then I have residual in my BHO...
Here in Denver there are Dispensaries that are blasting tubes onto pyrex, letting it "dry", and then selling it to customers.
Sounds the opposite of what you speak of.
Denver has some of the most advanced operations ive ever seen...
Odd..
they should be convicted of assault! I would walk in an ask to see it an put a flame to it in front of them.
Do you know for a fact this is happening, ie; you saw it or work at a place doing it, or did someone you know tell you it's going on?
Which dispensaries? If you know names and are sure of what you say, name them! People should know if this is really going down.
