**Permaculture Principle: Observe and Interact** Rabbits trimming cannabis buds image Last season, a cannabis branch broke and fell onto the ground in the rabbit colony. I noticed the rabbits did a pretty good job of eating all the fan leaves and some sugar leaves but seemed to leave the buds alone. Since it was on the ground, the buds were pretty dirty and I didn't end up doing anything with it, but I kept the observation in mind. Recently a branch broke off one of the plants and was hanging tangled up with the rest. I took the opportunity to do a little test to see if the rabbits would trim the bud again. I hung the branch on the fence for several days, and to my surprise, they did an excellent job trimming! image Trimming the cannabis is the most labor intensive step of the cannabis production system here. I'm looking forward to using the rabbits to trim the cannabis at scale for me this year. They do the work, get a free meal, and I get the product and a free meal too! All thanks to that observation last season and a little interaction with it this season given the opportunity. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #cannabis #learnpermaculture #weedstr
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Woahhhh. This is a wild idea for sure, but would love to see the results! I can't believe I'd feel really comfortable offering up my bud to animals lol. I do feed the fan leaves to our geese and ducks, but I don't think I'd be trusting them to do the trim job themselves and the stop there! 😆
this is the purpose of those buds sticky bitter resin also... to protect the seeds until they are ripe it also should be added that aside from being mechanically unpleasant to tangle with, that actually they are not intoxicating to mammals, that requires heat to break the carboxylic acid groups off the THCA in the resin, so it's not an aversion from the psychoactive effect it's the smell and the goo
These rabbits high AF
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**Permaculture Principle: Observe and Interact** Rabbits trimming cannabis buds image Last season, a cannabis branch broke and fell onto the ground in the rabbit colony. I noticed the rabbits did a pretty good job of eating all the fan leaves and some sugar leaves but seemed to leave the buds alone. Since it was on the ground, the buds were pretty dirty and I didn't end up doing anything with it, but I kept the observation in mind. Recently a branch broke off one of the plants and was hanging tangled up with the rest. I took the opportunity to do a little test to see if the rabbits would trim the bud again. I hung the branch on the fence for several days, and to my surprise, they did an excellent job trimming! image Trimming the cannabis is the most labor intensive step of the cannabis production system here. I'm looking forward to using the rabbits to trim the cannabis at scale for me this year. They do the work, get a free meal, and I get the product and a free meal too! All thanks to that observation last season and a little interaction with it this season given the opportunity. #permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #cannabis #learnpermaculture #weedstr View quoted note →
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Henry 1 year ago
Hmm might have to try that out with the gerbils too 😁