URL: https://postharvestreport.com/glossary/hybrid
A light machine trim finished by hand, the most common post-harvest configuration in mature markets.
Glossary
Hybrid is a post-harvest configuration that combines a light machine trim with a hand-trim finish. The machine handles the volume work; humans catch what the machine leaves behind. Yields typically fall in the 55%–70% range depending on cultivar, drying discipline, and finisher skill.
Hybrid is where most commercial cannabis is trimmed today, and it's where most of the industry's unresolved recovery variability lives. The interaction between machine settings, moisture, and finisher pace is the single biggest driver of batch-to-batch yield variance in a mature facility.
Hybrid, a light machine trim with a hand-trim finish, is the most common path mature markets and producers have adopted. It still creates a lot of variability, and very few producers have a system that handles that variability well. It's the single most significant area of opportunity in post-harvest right now.