Crop Trimmers Tips
How T0 Harvest Like A BOSS!
Crop Trimmers Tips How T0 Harvest Like A BOSS! Grozine Issue 8
[quote]Don’t leave wet material in bins for longer than thirty minutes before racking or hanging[/quote]
Harvesting hydroponics, greenhouse, soilless and outdoor crops sometimes requires trimming as a step in the crop production process. The process can be made automatic to reduce the amount of time required for either a single person or a pro trim crew to finish the job. While your blue ribbon beauty big tops will always get the gentle treatment with hand and glove, there is much to be said for the time savings and even improvements in consistency and quality for smaller flowers that need trimming-for example Hops; the kind used in beer making.
This Garden Harvest Season, we are pleased to be running a series of articles dedicated to the most wonderful time of year, when grower’s are able to realize a harvest after all that hard work and investment. This will be our first (Tips for Harvest), BUT, of course we always had something to help you along with your harvesting needs, like this DIY Drying Rack for cheap that we featured a little while back-ideal for fresh herbs you want to store for prolonged use and storage.
So, let’s get to work, shall we? Here are some great and well proven:
Tips for Harvesting, Trimming and Drying Crop Harvests:
- Save a lot of time and labor by keeping excess foliage to a minimum during ripening; growers who pluck leaves during cropping, don’t spend as much time trimming later.
- Walk yourself through the process before you get started-what steps/stages are needed; and do you have everything on hand like gloves, scissors, bins, chairs, refreshments, music, etc
- If your gloves fit too tight, your hands will get TIRED FASTER and become more SORE later. Make sure gloves and scissors fit your hands right*very important*
- Some plant types and strains are easier to trim with your fingers than they are with scissors. Try plucking excess foliage away from flowers; even the finer stuff. It can be a big time saver and even improve quality
- Be gentle and thoughtful when handling the harvest; it is delicate and far from “done” at this point. Don’t leave wet material in bins for longer than thirty minutes before racking or hanging
