my and my pal have just one a little grow in his room with a 1.2m square tent. 1x 600watt hps. soil. biobizz grow and bloom. 9buckets and the strain was psychosis. the grow went normal all the way through to drying out. we chopped on wednesday and when we weighed to our joy it weighed 1500g, i thought to myself surely its only gonna lose 500g drying out. the bud filled a black bag wednesday. today it only filled a carrier bag. i was so ecited bout not having to buy dealer for ages if ever again. but today four days later. when we weighed it it only 350g. it was bone dry aswell. im gutted. can anyone tell me if this is about right, or has my dodgy mate slipped some? thanks ppl.

sounds about right for dryin out weed,..ya loose a good two thirds maybe more in water weight alone bro.

Sounds about right.

Doesn't sounds too far out TBH, wet cannabis buds normally loose between 75% and 85% when drying.

hey mate, thats bang on. when i dry i get slightly under a quarter of the just harvested wet weight. enjoy mate, i would of been over the moon with 350g on my first grow

Fourthed

DONT PANIC!


Bert...

I find its usually about a a fifth of the wet weight min so you min would be 300g so 350g is about right.

The wet weight varies greatly to if its just been watered or if the pots still have alot of moisture in them, i watered 2 plants once then decided just to chop and those 2 weighed over 100g more each when chooped than the others.

I try not to weigh b4 drying- cos it always disapoints. I had a cola once weigh 14oz on the chop, it dried to 2oz or so.

you will loose roughly 80% weight to water evaporation.... i reckon u did alrite mate..

chill..

That's about right dude.I know what u meen on my first grow I had a load and was over the moon.then when it was dry I was gutted thought my grandad had his hands in it.

you lose 2/3 to evaporation so your probably rightmaybe a bit short but not by much

.58g per watt which is better than me , can only improve aim for 1g per watt which is quite hard to do so... dont worry about it

You should try get a veg room up and running if you haven't already, so everytime you chop some plants you can put the veggin plants into flower and harvest another 8-11 weeks later (depending on strain) will be a challenge to run out of bud then

enjoy yer smoke

I think the bud shrink fairy turns up on about day two or three normally. It's a bit disheartening, but 350g is still a lot of weed.

So your weed only loses 66%???

You drying it right?

The loss in weight sounds normal,but chopped on wednesday bone dry today?

I'm still gutted but fuck it. I'm using 4 aqua farms next so hopefully I get a bigger yield. The bud was left to dry in the tent with the fans on.

Dont be gutted mate!

Its about quality not quantity & 350g sounds like a fucking good smoke to me!

The drying sounds far too quick, you should keep temps at 15-18c approx and then it takes between 10-21 days!

Weeds

I aim for a temperature between 18 and 20 degrees C. It takes 10 - 21 days to dry the weed depending on size of individual buds and colas. Then a week or 10 days in a brown paper bag, then into jars for curing.

I also find outdoor weather has an impact on drying times. Today it is pissing down, and background humidity has soared as a result. I anticipate my buds are probably about two days "dampr" today than they were yesterday. Even though they are in the dryest part of the house.
Its little variables like that that make predicting a drying-time almost impossible.

Expect to lose around 80% of wet bud weight. Even when curing after a proper dry, buds carry on losing weight for a while.

I work on 20-25% after a proper dry.

4 days to bone dry (it cant be unless you nuked it) I rekon there is more to lose inside the buds (but they arnt in my hand) how did you dry en matey..

I trim all me leaves off, chop into stems for hanging...If I weigh it then, I divide by 5-5.5 for a pretty accurate range on final weight....

So, say I got 1500grams wet and trimmed, but still on stalks, divide by 5, is 300g, by 5.5 is 273g.......

I would expect 275-300grams once trimmed off the stalks after drying, from 1500g wet weight and still on stalks.....

I'm a bit this morning and fear I may have muddied the waters...

Monk...x

In fact yeah, I'd say 350grams from 1500g can't be properly dry, as others have said....be careful if you're planning on jarring it...make sure it's BONE dry

This explains why a wet Oz i bought turned into half an ounce over a week my own fault really