“That’s a pain.”īryan Schatz is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul. The only time it sucks? When you get “sticky gloves,” he nods with a bummer look.
Now I get to be the finisher, make sure it looks good before people get to it. “As a customer, I got really tired of seeing crappy trim.
“You want to make it look pretty,” he continues. these guys go home the growers have customers who were there trimmers. With this other one-I think it’s related to Sour Diesel-it’s airy, so you have to get inside, get the leaves out of there without chopping the bud up.” It takes someone who likes repetitive jobs and who has love for trimming the buds. When you trim, you can go around the buds. You forget you’re even doing it, and the day’s over before you know it.”Īdamson puts the scissors down and takes a break to point out the buds that a neighboring trimmer is working on: “As repetitive as it is, there’s always different pot, which takes totally different methods.” Holding up the other bud, he says, “Like this, Bruce Banner. “Once you get the hang of it, you know what you can and can’t cut, you just zone out. “It’s cool because you can just kind of zone off,” he says. If you’ve got a huge harvest coming up, and. It’s capable of trimming 72 pounds per hour. To hear Adamson talk of the job, you get the sense that trimmers might enter a kind of flow state-that phenomenon that occurs when your skills are matched perfectly to the task at hand and the work becomes effortless. Tom’s Tumbler TTT 2600 Dry Bud Trimmer stands out because it’s designed for large-scale growers. They can be coupled with other harvest automation equipment, such as buckers (destemmers), to create an almost entirely automated harvest process if you wish. It also doesn’t hurt that he says it’s “some of the easiest work I’ve ever done in my life.”īut it’s more than that. A bud trimmer is a machine designed to separate the leaves from the bud of a marijuana plant. This looks like possibly the most monotonous job in existence, but for Adamson, it’s ideal. There’s a mountain of untrimmed weed to his left and a bucket of cleaned-up buds on his right.įor the year he’s been trimming for Evergreen Apothecary and the Colorado Harvest Company (the same owners), he’s spent six to nine hours a day in exactly the position he’s in now: back rounded, elbows resting on the table, right hand a blur, a bundle of weed on the table and usually jams in his ears. He’s wearing an apron and black plastic gloves, his left hand is steady while his right, gripped around heavy-duty, titanium-bladed scissors, is in constant motion-removing leaves and stems from heady buds covered in little orange hairs and a riot of trichomes.
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