Found this one today - crossing my fingers you'll pull down some weight of sticky bud.
I believe your burn problems earlier were simply the result of the lamp being too close. The upturned edges on surrounding fan leaves were also a sign of heat stress.
Thats a lot of work. I am so glad I bought a trimmer.
Hand trimming used to drive me insane, I would get so bored doing it.
So I've just called in some help!! This is gunna take some serious time to get it all trimmed up!!
I just spent 2+ hours trimming one plant!!! I took what I thought was about the smallest plant out of the bunch. Definitely no bigger than average thats for sure.It was the furthest plant from the lights and no reflective wall against it. I've gotta say, I'm pretty fucking blown away by the trimmed wet weight!!!! 507 grams wet is what this first plant came out to:yay: By my calculations that comes out to no less than 4 ounces dry per plant!! I was thinking I was going to get 2 ounces per plant tops! Even at 3.5 ounces per plant that comes out to just over 2.5# per light!!!!!
I'm not going to celebrate just yet until it's all trimmed, dried and weighed but right now I'm pretty damn happy!!
What kind of trimmer do u have?? Was thinking of getting the trimpro unplugged. Use that for the smaller stuff and trim the colas by hand. Does the trimmer kick the shit out of the buds??
Must say that is one nice looking crop bro! And to think you were going to fuck it all up trying to eradicate a non existent pest. I'm glad you didn't continue to think those glands were BM eggs.
As far as the trimming goes, just do it by hand for now. My method is to allot 30 seconds per 12"-16" cola. I count in my head and if I hit 30 I count down from 10 out loud. And then I put the bud down and move on, regardless. This really picks up the pace. Otherwise I often find myself spending minutes on one cola. Once I'm moving along I stop the counting but will keep track of how many I'm getting done every 5 minutes. And if I slow, its back to counting. And yeah you will draw blood sooner or later, lol.
That is the one I am using. I had a cheaper one before with just the wire as the cutter, and would get jammed on stems. The trimpro unplugged has a huge thick blade.
The buds come out looking pretty good. Works best if the bud/plant is super wet. You will probably lose a bit of yield, but I use the trim for hash anyways,
I was able to harvest a 3 light in about 5-6 hours.
Use to take me a week by hand. I am now able to harvest and transfer my clones to start the next round in a single day, and even clean up. After its dry it will take me another hour to do a once over by hand, breaking off leaves the trimmer wasn't able to get.