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evl
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Registered: 05/24/09
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does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight?
#10628536 - 07/06/09 05:27 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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with a lid so the dessacant takes all the moisture out of the box?
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Mystagogue
Mad Scientist



Registered: 05/30/09
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Re: does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight? [Re: evl]
#10628544 - 07/06/09 05:33 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes - otherwise your desiccant will be sucking moisture out of the air in the room. I used a large pyrex container and some cheese cloth to separate my mushrooms from the silica gel, it worked great.
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Doc_T
Random Dude




Registered: 03/06/09
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Re: does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight? [Re: Mystagogue]
#10628617 - 07/06/09 06:31 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes. Coffee can works well, or a big zipper bag.
-------------------- You make it all possible. Doesn't it feel good?
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hyphae
born to grow



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Re: does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight? [Re: Doc_T]
#10628659 - 07/06/09 06:49 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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I like Tupperware I burp them and no they're airtight! How about the "Borg"! This is a circulating desiccant dry design of mine and actuall worked beautiful for smaller quantities.
-------------------- Getting the most out of your casings!, A pinning strategy.
Oyster Shell "Flour" $2 for 1lb. a hell of a deal
Not what is overlay but rather what overlay is
Gas Exchange vs. FAE
"We all have priorities. I used a closet once setup a nice little lab trouble was all the shit that was in there ended up in the bedroom that pissed off the GF then I ended up dumping her as she was getting in the way of my sterile culture technique! Ya I got priorities too!!!"
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AlexP



Registered: 06/04/09
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Loc: Europe
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Re: does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight? [Re: hyphae]
#10628701 - 07/06/09 07:10 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
How about the "Borg"! This is a circulating desiccant dry design of mine and actuall worked beautiful for smaller quantities.
How does it work Hyphae?
-------------------- "To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." Fernando Pessoa
"When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them." Eliphas Levi
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal." Aleister Crowley
"The Universe is an artistic catharsis." Artifex Infinitum
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shakalaka
BOOM SHAKALAKA!



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Re: does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight? [Re: hyphae]
#10628795 - 07/06/09 08:09 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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does that thing fly? WOW!
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hyphae
born to grow



Registered: 12/13/02
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Re: does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight? [Re: shakalaka]
#10629743 - 07/06/09 11:56 AM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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The center chamber holds the shrooms on a screen while the lower chamber holds the desiccant the upper chamber holds an axial fan that recirculates the air down through the shrooms into the desiccant and back around. It is a sealed unit.
-------------------- Getting the most out of your casings!, A pinning strategy.
Oyster Shell "Flour" $2 for 1lb. a hell of a deal
Not what is overlay but rather what overlay is
Gas Exchange vs. FAE
"We all have priorities. I used a closet once setup a nice little lab trouble was all the shit that was in there ended up in the bedroom that pissed off the GF then I ended up dumping her as she was getting in the way of my sterile culture technique! Ya I got priorities too!!!"
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AlexP



Registered: 06/04/09
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Loc: Europe
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Re: does the dessacant chamber have to be air tight? [Re: hyphae]
#10629781 - 07/06/09 12:04 PM (15 years, 6 months ago) |
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That is very cleaver! I'm gonna have to find a way to dry a large amount of mushrooms though as I'm doing all kinds of experiences and my desk is full of inocd substrate. All colonizing very weel, both grains and cakes... I don't even have space on my desk to write anymore! =/
-------------------- "To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." Fernando Pessoa
"When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them." Eliphas Levi
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal." Aleister Crowley
"The Universe is an artistic catharsis." Artifex Infinitum
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