Congratulations – your buds are fully dried! 🎉 Now it’s time for the fine-tuning, the trimming. This is where you decide whether your flowers will end up shining like diamonds or looking more like wild herbs from the side of the road. And don’t worry: with the right tools and a little patience, you’ll quickly become a trimming pro.

🛠️ Which tools do you really need?

You should equip yourself with the right helpers so that your work runs smoothly and your valuable trichomes (the small resin heads with the cannabinoids and terpenes) are spared:

• Crop shears with curved blade
  → enable precise cuts directly on the flower, without unnecessary pressure.
• Rubber gloves
  → protect against sticky fingers and ensure that you have clean clippings.
• Sealable containers
  → preferably made of glass, so that your buds can be stored protected from light and airtight.
• 62 % Boveda packs
  → keep the humidity constant so that your flowers neither dry out nor go moldy.
• Clean surface
  → a tray or a smooth surface that is easy to clean – after all, resin sticks everywhere.

Extra tip: Get a trimming buddy. Trimming is quicker and more fun with a partner.

✂️ Step-by-step trimming

1. Prepare the setup
   – Everything clean, gloves on, scissors to hand.
2. Expose the flowers
   – Remove the entire foliage, including the small “sugar leaves” with resin trimmings.
   – The aim: a clean, compact bud structure.
3. Care before speed
   – Work flower by flower, without hasty movements – every touch costs trichomes.
4. Storing buds
   – Finished flowers go straight into the sealable glass containers.

🧾 Brief summary

Clean scissors, a steady hand and protected trichomes – this is how you conjure up your perfect buds from dried greenery.