I think it comes down to trimming. If I wanted my harvest to look similar, would i need a commercial drum style trimmer? Ive never worked at any of these places, so im just not sure how to better my process. Anyone feel like their finished product looks like or better than boutique dispo? Has the market warped my brain into thinking thier look is the preferred?
Mine is on the left if you cant tell lol
That’s the difference between homegrown and dispo buds. U can tumble yours and make em look like that. Take some of your buds and put em in a shoebox and shake em all around or scissor trim super close. Dispo gon use everything that gets knocked off for extraction, you can keep it on the buds by leaving it lightly trimmed.
I prefer the homegrown look, but uneducated consumers prefer the tumbled buds. They also like sprayed terps and smoke D9 and sketchy carts, so they aren’t our people.
I’ve always thought the super dense, super round, dispo weed was caused by the PGRs that most commercial indoor grows use. Not a fan personally.
Thanks for the replys.
Your buds have character! 
Genetics and possibly salt fed. I had an Ethos GMO cross turn out like the ones on the right, but I prefer how yours looks. The top right looks like they cut everything off the bud, LOL, and the bottom right just looks like that’s how it grew. Yours looks beautiful, though. Like it came from nature.
Thank you all for the encouraging comments.
The Large guy on the left is Marshmallow OG and the small guy is Cherry Pie. Both from the most recent multipass.
The top right is Gelonade from Rythm and the bottom right is Slurricrasher from Cresco
Try a trimming thing called the trim bag. I really didn’t think it would work but it does. It trims your 6 oz and probably 5 minutes and you shake it right out. All you have to do is take off the big stems, buck it down to Bud sizes and you shake it in the trim bag a few times and it’s perfect. Try it out. Read the Google reviews. I didn’t believe it until I borrowed a Buddy’s and tried it. I bought mine within an hour.
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I typically trim when I chop and hang. Can’t remember the last time I tried dry trimming.
I have a feeling I’m in the minority here on this issue.
I also use a trim bag and am happy with the results. I hand trim my tops and shake the rest in the trim bag.
Yes, great point. I forgot to mention the tops I hand trim as well 
- seriously, the trim bag works 50x better than I thought it could.
Ya wet trimming will always look like that, which is why the big commercial spots will wet trim and then use the tumbler machines (also not my preference since they wreck trics). Nice to hear there is some consensus with the trim bags though: hand trim tops (usually when dry) and do then the rest in the trim bag and it all comes out great with minimal labor!
Agreed if this is what you’re looking for then the trim bag may be for you. I have one but only use in bigger harvest. Very handy though
Sulphate of Potash helps from what I’ve herd, also proper pruning.
I dry trim every time. I tried wet trimming some a couple times but when everything dried, the buds I wet trimmed smelled like hay and the ones I dried first then trimmed smelled like tangerines. Both from the same plant. So I personally never wet time anymore.
I can’t wait to pop the Marshmallow OG crosses.
I am having this issue and could not figure out where the hay smell came from. When the flower is broken up for consumption it smells fine. The outside of the bud smells like hay though. Some strains the terpd are so good it pushes through that smell but the rest all smell the same.
This is a oh crap moment for me. Gotta start a new batch to try it, but I will be dry trimming from now on.
Let me know if that fixes that. I remember someone saying they believed that wet trimming allowed the chlorophyll to come out on the bud which would give it the hay smell. I don’t know if that’s true, but it seems like it makes sense.
You can usually get rid of the hay smell by proper curing.
