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 ItsaMeMario
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 wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? 
#6744426 - 04/03/07 10:36 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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last night i had this brilliant idea of putting the small fresh mushrooms in a hair net and sticking it infront of my airconditioner- i wake up today to find that they actually got wetter! apparently my airconditioner also does a little humidifying which i had no idea of until now. so my shrooms are now all bruised up and wetter than ever before. do you think a significant amount of potency is lost already? thx.
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fungusfun1
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: ItsaMeMario]
#6744443 - 04/03/07 10:41 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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that sucks man, the potency loss will correlate to how blue they are...
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 Blutjager
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: ItsaMeMario]
#6744502 - 04/03/07 10:58 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
ItsaMeMario said:
Do you think a significant amount of potency is lost already? thx.
Only one way to find out
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Dr. Greenthumb
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: Blutjager]
#6744504 - 04/03/07 10:59 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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Uh...isn't part of the way and air conditioner works is dehumidifying a room?
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budmanman
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: Dr. Greenthumb]
#6744527 - 04/03/07 11:08 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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um I am prety sure it cools the room
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Dr. Greenthumb
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: budmanman]
#6744550 - 04/03/07 11:15 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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Yeah, but I think dryer air is a by-product of cooling it.
http://www.misterfixit.com/dehumid.htm
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Soooooo, if you are going to spend the money for a device, and also the money for the electricity to operate it, to make you more comfortable it is better to buy an air conditioner, since it not only removes moisture from the room air, it also cools it!
I dunno. lol
Edited by Dr. Greenthumb (04/03/07 11:18 PM)
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: Dr. Greenthumb]
#6744558 - 04/03/07 11:19 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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wouldnt someone who registered in 99 be able to aford a dehydrator...
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ItsaMeMario
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: budmanman]
#6744564 - 04/03/07 11:20 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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whys it matter when they registered? all old people arent rich just because they were born before 1950s.
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budmanman
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: ItsaMeMario]
#6744577 - 04/03/07 11:25 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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im not even 21 and I have one... if your old and you can't aford one your well broke as heck I guess, I dunno how someone couldnt afford one.
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: budmanman]
#6744635 - 04/03/07 11:45 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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You don't even need a dehydrator to get mushrooms completely dry within a few days. Believe it or not some growers might actually decline the offer to buy a dehydrator even if they are able to afford one. But back on topic- Mario, if its only been a day I doubt they lost any noticeable potency, just move them in front of a fan to dry them before they start to decompose. Good luck.
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: cubenessence]
#6744674 - 04/03/07 11:56 PM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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A fan in a cabinet always seemed to do the trick. 
They should be ok. 
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ItsaMeMario
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: simplemachine]
#6744742 - 04/04/07 12:11 AM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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i have a nice air purifier. i put the shrooms in a tupperware with some desiccant pouchs and taped the tupperware to the out-take of the purifier loosely to allow circulation. that was an hour ago. the shrooms are already as dry as ones that are left to fan dry for about 12 hours. im gonna use this method from now on!
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minesstudent
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: ItsaMeMario]
#6744951 - 04/04/07 01:20 AM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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Did you use a swamp cooler? Because those shoot out a lot of humidity.
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ItsaMeMario
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: minesstudent]
#6745099 - 04/04/07 02:51 AM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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i guess the airconditioner i have is a swamp cooler.. cuz yeah, it did shoot out a lot of humidity.
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Dr. Greenthumb
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: budmanman]
#6745356 - 04/04/07 07:32 AM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
budmanman said:
wouldnt someone who registered in 99 be able to aford a dehydrator...
Who said I don't have one???
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AuntieIrie
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: Dr. Greenthumb]
#6745494 - 04/04/07 08:58 AM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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c'mon now, keep it civil all.... One air conditioners are fake air...ahh dont use em, second you can snag up a dehydrator at a second hand store...aka: St. Vincent de Paul, goodwill..etc...i picked mine up for $7 and it has 6 layers...not bad....
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: AuntieIrie]
#6745708 - 04/04/07 10:17 AM (17 years, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
AuntieIrie said:
c'mon now, keep it civil all.... One air conditioners are fake air...ahh
I agree, we need to keep it civil. But fake air? 
All an air conditioner does is cool the air by means of compressing a refrigerant and expanding it past a valve. When you compress matter (in this case, a gas) it creates heat. When you expand it, the opposite happens - it cools off (think of those cans of compressed air dusters... they get really cold when you use them.) It's the same air that's already inside your house, it's just run across a copper cooling core by use of a blower motor. The coolant is then run back outside to the compressor, where's it's re-compressed, and goes through the condenser core. A fan blows over the condenser core to transfer as much heat as possible to the outside air - then the cycle repeats.
Many air conditioning systems now have humidifiers installed in order to keep the air from becoming too dry, which is bad for your lungs and skin and makes your house more static-prone.
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Blutjager
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: Sillicybin]
#6749535 - 04/05/07 06:32 AM (17 years, 16 days ago) |
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I'm old and I don't have a dehydrator,not cause I can afford one but just cause I live in a dry enough place where I don't need one,I have thought of getting one on a few occasions when I had massive amounts to dry but in cases like that this >> http://www.homesteadharvest.com/fd2500.html is kinda pricey even if your not broke
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AuntieIrie
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: Blutjager]
#6749994 - 04/05/07 10:05 AM (17 years, 16 days ago) |
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yup fake cold air....it is what it is.....tell me its not
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Re: wetted the shrooms instead of drying them. potency loss unavoidable? [Re: AuntieIrie]
#6751485 - 04/05/07 05:02 PM (17 years, 15 days ago) |
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Quote:
AuntieIrie said:
yup fake cold air....it is what it is.....tell me its not
It's not! It's REAL cold air.
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