Girl Scout Cookies Auto

This week, 3 of the 8 were ready, so I chopped them. They are drying right now. I also did some testing of the iPower 16 inch bowl trimmer I got a while back. Wet trimming, I found that it does a poor job with the leaves which need to be touched up after they come out of the bowl. They also noticeably reduce the sparkle and presumably the potency. Wet trimming with the bowl takes it from top shelf, brag-to-your-friends ganja to "ehh idk it's just some weed." I found that the bowl trimmer saved me about 30% on time, but it easily cost more than that in quality and bag appeal. The bowl trimmer also came with a dry trim blade. I dried a few branches and ran the buds through the bowl. It did a MUCH better job. It did break off some of the buds, so I ended up with a bunch of tiny buds and some stems on the ones they came from. Some also fell into the trim bowl. I did lose some bag appeal and product there, but the trim was actually pretty good probably thanks to the dry leaves just flaking off. The blade probably didn't do anything. I would say that for mass-trimming a large amount of product, this trimmer used for dried buds is ACCEPTABLE! I bet a dry tumbler would do just as well but with less damage which was probably caused by the roughness of the silicone "fingers" pushing the buds around. Oh yeah. I also lost power for 3 full days, so that was not cool at all. Fortunately, my generator can run pumps and fans and everything but the lights. I'll have a full harvest report next week!