Large yield differences between wet and dry buds

[ChenBenTz]

The last few grows my wet yield and dry yield have varied wildly.

Three grows ago, my wet yield was 2,120g and my dry was 612g, or 29%.

Two grows ago, my wet yield was 2,025g and my dry was 779g or 39%.

Last grow it was 2,547g wet and 562g dry or 23%.

This grow it was a whopping 3,581g wet and only 735g dry..


Is it the buds or the drying..?

This time around, the humidity was around 75% and after a week the buds still felt wet so I turned on the AC to heat for a few hours.

The buds became noticeably dry, even brittle.

So, I sat them back in the 75% humidity room and they went back to feeling wet but the weight was the same..

So, did I do something wrong with the drying? Could I have had a better yield? Or is it just how the buds turned out?

And if so.. why? The buds looks great! Thick and full of resin. Doesn't make sense.

Thanks for the help!

 

[aridbud]

Factors: Environment, humidity, genetics all play into wet vs. dry.

 

[Phaeton]

Back when I used part time trimmers on commission there was one guy who could not wait for the buds to dry and took his commission wet.
The standard conversion was 25% of the wet weight would be the dry equivalent. Numerous checks found this to be within a couple percent every time.

The final weight difference between good toking smoke and too dry and dusty is close to zero. Taking a half ounce of dusty fragile bone dry bud and spritzing a gram of water on it makes it almost too wet to smoke. It does not take much water to slow down a fire.

 

[PerfectGrower]

Factors: Environment, humidity, genetics all play into wet vs. dry.

I'd add nutrient dosing to this list

 

[ChenBenTz]

Factors: Environment, humidity, genetics all play into wet vs. dry.

But those are precisely the things that are controlled for. They're always the same.

Only thing that changed is the drying process.

 

[RockinRobot]

Drying the same way will not necessarily dry a bud to the same percentage of moisture in the same amount of time. Sounds like the first couple grows weren't dry enough when you did your dry weight. Only real way to compare weight is if you had each batch tested to insure that the moisture content in all crops was the same.

All plants are about 80% water so drying the same amount of material to the same moisture level dry weight should be relatively close.