I would have helped with a bud or two for the sake of research, but my stuff is already in paper bags or curing. I personally would never use weight as my guide to drying because there are way too many variables and so many different methods. Are you drying trimmed or untrimmed, whole plants, branches, buds? Climate, density of buds, strain, airflow? I mean I guess it could help someone that can't figure out when a bud snaps off and a bigger stem snaps but doesn't break, and when it's crunchy outside and squishy inside... but are we weighing every individual bud? I grew 12 trees, that's humanly impossible lol. Even from the same plant, different size buds may need longer. I think using paper bags takes even more guess work out, because you can put buds of various sizes and at slightly different levels of dryness in together and the will all reach an even level over a few days, as long as you turn the buds and burp the bags. Going by a set time also doesn't work imo because of all the variables. If I left my shit for 14 days it would be dry as an old bone. I usually hang for about 4 days then paper bag for like 5 days or more... until it's ready. I think teaching newbies to dry by weight is setting them up for failure, and that may be why you're getting some snarky responses... because while it's a good idea in theory, in practice it's just not plausible. Gotta learn by feel and by experience. That's just my two cents.