Maximum Yield Cannabis USA August / September 2017 | Page 52

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You know the old cliché: one
person’s trash is another person’s
treasure. Well, here’s how to make
some marketable treasure from
your trimming trash.
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by Lee G. Lyzit
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grow. heal. learn. enjoy.
fter harvesting and trimming a cannabis garden,
a grower is left with two things: well-manicured
buds and a bunch of leftover trim material. The mani-
cured buds are already marketable and require no
more attention aside from proper curing. The trim ma-
terial, on the other hand, is not very marketable;
however, with a little work and creativity, even
trim material can be converted into a number of
valuable cannabis products.
To turn this trash into stash, a grower
must extract the cannabinoids from
the plant material. Thankfully, there is
no shortage of extraction methods for
cannabis trimmings. In fact, it seems
like new methods are continually being
discovered. Before jumping into the
extraction game, however, a grower should
closely examine some of the different
ways to make cannabis extractions. Every
method has different advantages and
disadvantages, but what it really comes
down to is which type of product is desired
and the grower’s personal preference.
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