Autotrimmer?

anybody using an auto trimmer?

Hell yes, they work great when you have to trim 20 lbs of outdoor

What do you have exactly. One got recommended to me on amazon but the reviews aren't so hot.

http://www.bonsaihero.com/index.php/bonsai-hero

https://www.rollitup.org/t/ty-bonsai-hero-trimmers.885372/

I run the Shearline 2.0....hth




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Trimpro Automatik. I'm satisfied with results. Not quite as god as hand manicured wet, but boy can it handle lots and lots in a day.

For totally commercial purposes bud trimmers are okay. But they are savage to bud. Connoisseur quality bud is not trimmed in them in many cases because of this. But if you have a boatload of bud . . . ..

hotrodharley said:

For totally commercial purposes bud trimmers are okay. But they are savage to bud. Connoisseur quality bud is not trimmed in them in many cases because of this.

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Spot on. I value my trichomes more than to have them possibly diminished by the rough treatment of a trimmer.

NEVER!

Never say never....especially if you've never tried it. I don't feel like I'm diminishing quality of the product at all by using my trimpro automatik. It's also a matter of volume. When you're looking at 30 or 40 days of hand trimming, you look for better options.

Lol never bro. To each his own but I have old-school morals and values. I'm not going to spend 4 months growing the finest cannabis to just toss it in a machine and lose my trichomes and diminish quality. A trimmer will never trim as good as these 2 hands, Me? I'll call a few buddies over while we sit around a table smoke some bomb bud, eat munchies and bullshit all night. Never will I use a machine wether I yield an ounce or 50lbs.

I understand everyone's concern about losing a significant percentage of trichomes in an auto trimmer, but where's the empirical data to prove or disprove as such? During the hand trimming process, the trichomes that are 'lost' or stuck to your trimming scissors is basically stuck like glue because of the physical contact of trichomes to the scissors. I've never look down and seen trichomes that have fallen off in the tray or tub from rough handling. So how much violent spinning can the buds take before trichomes fly off?

I've seen a number of videos of auto trimmers that tumble the shit out of the buds, spinning and tumbling the buds themselves at 1000 rpm (exaggerated.. probably less). The buds are spinning and rubbing against the trimmer blades, the rotating drum (maybe 60 rpm), and against all the other buds in the trimmer. What percentage of trichomes are rubbed off from all of this contact? Wouldn't most of the trichomes that are rubbed off become stuck to other buds as they rub together so the net effect is a minimal loss in the drum and on the trimmer blades?

Any chance someone at the BBQ can bring a bud that's been auto-trimmed versus an 'identical' bud from the same plant, the same size and shape, that has been hand trimmed? My speculation is that the surface of the auto-trimmed bud 'may' and possibly should have fewer trichomes, but how deep is that reduction in trichomes? Is any trichome loss too much for purists?

And ultimately is the end product less desirable?