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Harvesting cannabis flower involves cutting the individual buds off the stems, cutting off leaves, etc. Close handling. Of generally annoyingly sticky stuff, wi

Harvesting cannabis flower involves cutting the individual buds off the stems, cutting off leaves, etc. Close handling. Of generally annoyingly sticky stuff, with sharp scissors. There are often many minor cuts and nicks and scrapes on the fingers in the process. They rarely tend to be serious, but now I think about it they're not as annoying as papercuts. Suspect the mechanical "wound glue" action of the resins is more important immediately; and the fact that they pretty much only wash off with alcohol means the wounds are disinfected then too.

latchkey 4y ago
I spent years cleaning hundreds of pounds of weed (1 lb == ~8-10 hours of cleaning, if you're doing it well). Never once cut myself with scissors. I also used canola or coconut oil to clean the resin off as that worked really well and was an inexpensive way to do it (and seems better than pouring alcohol all over your skin... which would cause it to absorb even more of the resin). Just don't get your hands wet before you put the oil on. Even though the resin is oil based, you definitely absorb it into your skin. Hours of trimming turns into a spin.
- realce 4y ago
  > I also used canola or coconut oil to clean Ooo that's a great tip, thanks.
encryptluks2 4y ago
Your hands don't get saturated in resin unless you're doing something wrong, like squeezing the buds trying to drain oil by hand. It would take a extremely bad trimmer to be continually cutting themselves while trimming. There are a lot of components to THC and CBD that could have beneficial properties, not just the fact that they are naturally sticky.
- latchkey 4y ago
  My hands would absolutely get covered, but then again the stuff I was trimming was really great quality. ;-) Looking at it under a magnifying glass, all the nodules were wet glimmering, it was impossible to not get it everywhere.

latchkey 4y ago

I spent years cleaning hundreds of pounds of weed (1 lb == ~8-10 hours of cleaning, if you're doing it well). Never once cut myself with scissors. I also used canola or coconut oil to clean the resin off as that worked really well and was an inexpensive way to do it (and seems better than pouring alcohol all over your skin... which would cause it to absorb even more of the resin). Just don't get your hands wet before you put the oil on. Even though the resin is oil based, you definitely absorb it into your skin. Hours of trimming turns into a spin.

realce 4y ago
> I also used canola or coconut oil to clean Ooo that's a great tip, thanks.

encryptluks2 4y ago

Your hands don't get saturated in resin unless you're doing something wrong, like squeezing the buds trying to drain oil by hand. It would take a extremely bad trimmer to be continually cutting themselves while trimming. There are a lot of components to THC and CBD that could have beneficial properties, not just the fact that they are naturally sticky.

latchkey 4y ago
My hands would absolutely get covered, but then again the stuff I was trimming was really great quality. ;-) Looking at it under a magnifying glass, all the nodules were wet glimmering, it was impossible to not get it everywhere.