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?
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.
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.
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.
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!