Dried Flower Weight Calculator

The fresh weight of flowers needed for a target weight of dried flowers, from the weight loss the flower type gives.

What are you drying?

The option value is the weight loss percentage. Pick the closest, or measure your own loss and enter it below.

Target weight of dried flowers kg

What you need to end up with, after drying.

How many batches or lots

Multiply the whole calculation for a repeated order.

Weight loss you measured on a test bunch %

Optional. Weigh a bunch fresh, dry it properly, weigh it again and enter the loss. Leave at zero to use the flower type figure.

Fresh stems in one kilogram stems

A planning figure for your own material. Lavender is around 150 to 200 stems to the fresh kilogram, a rose head far fewer.

Price per kilogram fresh

What you pay the grower or the market for fresh material.

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