How accurate is 75% loss?

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tibberous

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My buddy is harvesting this weekend!

After he trims and harvests, is it pretty safe to weight everything and divide by 4 to get the dried weight?
 
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vilify

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i go 70 percent, and its been close within a gram or so everytime.

70 seems to be a good middleground.
cuz theres both nice dense nugs, that wont lose as much. and then theres some weak, fluffier buds that will lose more.

unless you are doing scrog, or trimming up the bottoms completely.

best way to do it.. get a few plants harvested. measure before, and after. get the percentages, and average.
will be a good indicator for that particular grow setup
 
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Budget Buds

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Hello, A plant is 75% moisture (h20) and 25% organic materal . You should by that ratio end up with 1/4 of the original fresh cut weight that you have. It isn't going to get to much more or less then that. So I would say yes your friend is right as is everybody that said that on here, BUT nothing is ever set in stone and it could be plus or minus about 10 %. The "best"nutrient Bud hardener I know is molasses. Yes I know but it is, I will run a preharvest on my plants for about four days before flushing. The main ingredent in it is molasses. and B.C.s magical .I have even gone as far as white or brown sugar or syurp but i would not recommend any thing but white sugar or molasses cause it has other ingredients in them and the shit is sticky. N E ways you could expect up to 20 % more weight with molasses. 1 oz with molasses could be 1.2 or more . It isn't really about "hardening" them (well it is ) , it is about making the plant stack on more weight so you end up with more in the end and don't notice what you have lost. . The ultimate way is to make sure your lights are efficient and that there placed as close to the plants as possible without suffering negative consequences from them. also make sure that all humidity and temp levels are in the OPTIMUM levels . Hope this helps a little bit
 
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tibberous

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Not to hijack my own thread, but does high RH cause a loss in yield? I thought it just promoted mold, but if you didn't get mold, everything was cool.
 
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Budget Buds

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Hello, Um I'd say no, But i guess i dont know how to really answer that. What I can say is this : Humidity is needed for the entire process ( growing, flowering, drying) . But for drying its need for a controlled drying . If you have too little r h in the drying room , the atmosphere will literatly suck the moisture out of the bud , leaving you with a bud thats dry in 1 or two days , still full of chlorophyl and all the other organic compounds that a controlled drying helps elinimate . too high of a rh will make the bud dry very slowly, with a huge risk of bud mold . an optimium rh is about 40-50% and that figure is a pretty safe bet during the entire veg flower dry cycles. only during seedling/clone stage do you want a higher 70-95% rh . when a plant is rootless in the clone stage it has no way to get water , so it has to transpire it from through the leaves. as for the loss of yeild , No your going to lose about 75% during the drying process and there's no getting aound it . dont worry about what you cannot control, instead worry about the specs in the drying room, make sure the temp and rh is PERFECT and keep the lights away from the bud . yes go in and check your shit every once in a while but dont leave the lights on it all day. and the bud that you do get will not be affected by the drying process. and depending on how good it was grown, should be pretty good . Hope this helps
 
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