Quote Originally Posted by Buggy
I'm new to cannabis growing, but with regular gardening you usually don't need gloves unless the plants are prickly. Some are sensitive, but I'd think the only thing you need for sensitive plants would be cotton gloves.

Most pharmacies have cotton medical-type gloves near the regular nitrile and latex type gloves. I know mine does! I usually use cotton-based gloves in my garden, and am fairly careful with most of my plants that are delicate or young especially. Cotton gloves help the most unless there are thorns or long prickers.
Hahah, yeah, I have some of those cotton style gloves as well as nitrile, "plastic wrap", PVA, etc. I'm thinking, now that you mention it, [thanks for the idea, by the way!] for handling dried flowers and the likes (as well as dealing with the plant, just tending in general) cotton would be the best, because you don't have to worry about odd residues (due to the nature of the materials of the other types of gloves) coming off and being consumed. And my reasons for wanting to handle flowers with gloves in the first place is just to maintain cleanliness, just a little "pet peeve" of mine, ahah, and it just feels better to know you're not getting any human contact until you actually take it to consume it. (Not the most logical reasons, but I just feel better doing it, if it doesn't hurt, why not?)