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PNW Cyans?
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I was walking past a lawn with some wood chips and I happened to find what could possibly be those little caramel capped CYANS! I'm not positive since its my first cyan find and I didn't see any immediate bruising, although they look identical to all the cyans i've been seeing on the PNW active post. I would have picked them on the spot but there was someone looking at me and I didn't have a bag. I'm leaving now to pick them up. I will take pictures and spore prints and I'll post them here. Wish me luck!


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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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Yep I'm sure they're cyans! They taste much better than cubes! :crazy2:
I'll put them up on the PNW actives post as well.







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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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Yep, they're cyans.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: elprawn]
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I should probably get the rest but I dont know what to do with them all!


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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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Dry them out and then vacuum seal them.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: elprawn]
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You think that they will be dry by the morning? I have one fan blowing air on them.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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Not sure tbh, mate.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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Fan dry for about 48hrs, put in desiccant container for a couple more days until cracker dry and any part of the mushroom will easily snap with no bending.  Then put in airtight container and freeze or make chocolates or honey and freeze.  I find that if you don't freeze them they will lose 75+% of their potency over the course of a year, even if kept in an airtight container at room temp.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: CubeBensies]
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An airtight container still contains air, it just doesn't let air in or out. Vacuum sealing should stop it containing air.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: elprawn]
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I do vaccuum seal when not doing other things with them and have tried w/ and w/o freezing and the ones kept in the freezer kick ass compared to the ones left in a drawer.  The freezing temps almost completely stop the breaking down of the active chemicals that break down fairly quickly at room temp.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: CubeBensies]
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If I took them away from the fan by the morning and put them in an open area for a day, would they be cracker dry after that for storage? They have been under the fan since 4pm today and the caps have already shrinked down to the size of a quarter.


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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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The only way to get them truly cracker dry in a high humidity area like PNW is using desiccant.  If you use desiccant they will store WAY better and longer than without.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: CubeBensies]
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Will they spoil if stored and not cracker dry?


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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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no, they will just lose more potency and lose it faster.  If they are still a bit moist when you store them they can mold(I've lost a quart jar of azurescens this way, not fun) and ruin the whole batch.  You can get a whole desiccant set-up for less than $15 and its discrete.  Go to michaels in crossroads, buy a 5 pound box of silica gel used for drying flowers, its non-toxic, unscented and reuseable and costs like $10.  I bought a plastic bowl set and some pantyhose and made a pretty ghetto container for like $4 and it works really well.

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: CubeBensies]
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Haha yea thats really ghetto. I have a few small packs of silica gel, believe it or not. Should I just put it in a plastic bag with the cyans for a few days?


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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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I'm not sure that a few packs of silica gel could suck enough moisture to really make a difference.

Heres my ghetto container that works wonders.  Everything but the duct tape was bought from goodwill for $4



It will easily desiccate this many mushrooms, in fact I have stuffed about 5x as many in there at once (after fan drying of course).


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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: CubeBensies]
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Thats excellent! Lots of cyans you got there :eek:
And I thought my collection was big, although theres still a bunch at the patch. I think I'm going to grab the rest. I didn't realize how much the cyans shrink when dried.


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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: 3rd Eye]
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great find those look lovely :vaped:

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Re: PNW Cyans? [Re: D-WAK]
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I took my cyans out the other day to make sure eveything was good (4 days later) and they smelt horrible, moist and not cracker dry, and they were bruising heavily. I put them under the fan for another day and stored them in an air tight bag with a big pouch of desiccant.  Are they spoiled? They dont look moldy, but then again I'm not sure what to look for.


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