Trimming straight after chopping is faster and the leaves come off cleanly, but every pass of the scissors over sticky fresh bud knocks trichomes loose. Dry trimming after a week of hanging is slower and messier, yet the finished flower keeps more resin and the slower dry helps the terpenes. I switched after reading the handling notes on https://potentthcseeds.com, and the frost on buds from the same THC seeds was visibly better under a loupe. Whichever you choose, handle the colas by the stem and not by the flower.
Trimming straight after chopping is faster and the leaves come off cleanly, but every pass of the scissors over sticky fresh bud knocks trichomes loose. Dry trimming after a week of hanging is slower and messier, yet the finished flower keeps more resin and the slower dry helps the terpenes. I switched after reading the handling notes on https://potentthcseeds.com, and the frost on buds from the same THC seeds was visibly better under a loupe. Whichever you choose, handle the colas by the stem and not by the flower.