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using small heater to dry fruits
    #19206229 - 11/29/13 07:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Its a little one that fan blows warm air. About a foot away. The warm air is probably about 85 degrees. One of the fruits is snap cracker ass dry. Is this a bad idea? Potentcy loss?


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: highc]
    #19206243 - 11/29/13 08:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Nope! You're fine. I dry in front of a space heater that is hot enough to burn you if you put your hand right next to it and I've never had any issues. 2 and a half grams always got me :mushroom2:


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
    #19206342 - 11/29/13 08:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

In the past ive layed mushies out on a baseboard long floor heating unit and dried em.. the temp of the metal was prob 120°f at least.. never seemed to harm potency.. and friends whom i shared with said they werenthe strongest mushies they ever ate.. you should be all good with the space heater!


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: SamhainJ]
    #19206700 - 11/29/13 10:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I use a space heater as well and it works just fine, but I have a roommate and
no other place to dry them but my roomso life kind of sucks when I pick a flush haha


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: otherr]
    #19207549 - 11/30/13 06:58 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Haha. Yeah, I had some issues when I got my first huge flushs off of 2 66 quart monotubs at the same time. 5 ounces does not fit infront of a space heater no matter what! I switched to a box fan and a desiccant chamber after that. So from now on, I use a space heater when I can and a box fan when I can't. Either way I finish it up with a desiccant chamber.


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
    #19207594 - 11/30/13 07:26 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

You can actually combine a space heater and a box fan to make a homemade dehydrater. You can set the space heater down in a laundry basket (maybe even tilt it back against something) then place a box fan on its back on top of the laundry basket blowing up. A piece of window screen placed on the fan will keep small mushies from falling in the cracks.

This is what I did when I first started growing and it worked very well for drying mushrooms. There are some issues with this of course. Like possible fire hazard and the fact that it uses a lot of energy and heats the room quite a bit. I have since bought a dehydrater. A real dehydrater is really the best way. I strongly recommend anyone who doesn't have one get one.

 
Here's a pic of my old homemade dehydrater :lol:


I've also heard you can put them in a pillow case and throw them in the cloths dryer but I've never tried it. I always thought it beat my mushrooms all to pieces :shrug:


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: Stromrider]
    #19207604 - 11/30/13 07:38 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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You can actually combine a space heater and a box fan to make a homemade dehydrater. You can set the space heater down in a laundry basket (maybe even tilt it back against something) then place a box fan on its back on top of the laundry basket blowing up. A piece of window screen placed on the fan will keep small mushies from falling in the cracks.

This is what I did when I first started growing and it worked very well for drying mushrooms. There are some issues with this of course. Like possible fire hazard and the fact that it uses a lot of energy and heats the room quite a bit. I have since bought a dehydrater. A real dehydrater is really the best way. I strongly recommend anyone who doesn't have one get one.

 
Here's a pic of my old homemade dehydrater :lol:


I've also heard you can put them in a pillow case and throw them in the cloths dryer but I've never tried it. I always thought it beat my mushrooms all to pieces :shrug:



That's a great idea! I tried combining a fan and a space heater once, but nothing worked as fast as the space heater alone. A space heater can get them near cracker dry in 24 hours if you don't have many. Of course your idea would be the best for lot of them though. I'm gonna get a dehydrator before my next grow yields anything though.


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: Sgt. Pepper]
    #19207616 - 11/30/13 07:46 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

The dryer is a pretty good idea. I had a set up similar to the tub and fan except I put the fruits right in the tub with the fan on top blowing down inside it. The heater is working nicely except I feel some of the. Are getting too dry.. Like if I bend them they crush to dust and are very hard. When I used desiccant they didn't even get this dry.


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: highc]
    #19207622 - 11/30/13 07:48 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

That's how you want them. Just get a dehydrater. You won't regret it


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Re: using small heater to dry fruits [Re: highc]
    #19207624 - 11/30/13 07:50 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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The dryer is a pretty good idea. I had a set up similar to the tub and fan except I put the fruits right in the tub with the fan on top blowing down inside it. The heater is working nicely except I feel some of the. Are getting too dry.. Like if I bend them they crush to dust and are very hard. When I used desiccant they didn't even get this dry.



Sounds like a cracker to me! Haha. I doubt there's such a thing as too dry, any moisture at all is very bad for long term storage.


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