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Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???...
    #20617793 - 09/25/14 03:45 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I've got a shit load of mushrooms coming in its almost non-stop!! :rockon: lol well this is how i am attempting to dry them.


I have gotten a few to be cracker dry as needed but this particular batch is being stubborn as hell!!  I've just got the mushrooms laying out on the bottom of the box with that fan set on high all day and night...and i have some mushrooms that have been in there for 5 days!!  My other batch before these i didnt even have this big a fan and they dried much faster!  It seems like theyre stuck where i can still just bend them but not quite completely dry...any suggestions??


I wanted to add this pic for fun cus i thought it was cool lol these are tiny compared to others i have harvested...i've had many with really thick stems and heads.  Also once i think theyre ready ive been moving them into a container with desiccant but they still wont dry??


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Mr. Magic]
    #20617799 - 09/25/14 03:46 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Buy a dehydrator.

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Ghatti]
    #20617812 - 09/25/14 03:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I'm really tight on money right now do you know of a place where i can get a really cheap on that still works?...Yes i cant even blow 50$ on one lol


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Ghatti]
    #20617813 - 09/25/14 03:48 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Ghatti said:
Buy a dehydrator.



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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: ant707]
    #20617844 - 09/25/14 03:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I've found used dehydrators from people on craigslist for like $15.

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: kmetric]
    #20617856 - 09/25/14 03:57 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Cool alright i guess ill have to look into it....do you guys think what i'm doing will eventually work though?  I dont want them to start rotting or anything is my concern.


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Mr. Magic]
    #20617882 - 09/25/14 04:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I usually place them in front of my box fan for a night or more, then into the dehydrator.  Before the dehydrator I would put in front of fan for a couple days, then into a closed container with some desiccant. If they haven't dried in that long of a time in front of the fan, you could try slicing them in half or quarter to help them dry easier. 

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Mr. Magic]
    #20617899 - 09/25/14 04:02 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

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Mr. Magic said:
I'm really tight on money right now do you know of a place where i can get a really cheap on that still works?...Yes i cant even blow 50$ on one lol



If you don't mind having someone else's old dehydrator, you could always check your local CL ads.

In the meantime, that fan and box method doesn't look like it would offer too much airflow as-is. Maybe put some holes in that box you have your mushrooms in and maybe some sort of racks so the mushrooms will be more spread out. Seems to me you'd be better off just letting the fan blow over them in a shoebox or something.


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Maito]
    #20617980 - 09/25/14 04:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Goodwill. You will find 7736748 of them.

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Maito]
    #20617985 - 09/25/14 04:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

just bought a new dehydrator for 30 something..looks pretty fancy. it is on sale now (Half price)..at Canadian Tire..any chance u live in Canada then u can check it out

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Harribomb]
    #20617989 - 09/25/14 04:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

personally I would never ever do it the way you're doing. a Dehydrator is a prerequisite to deal with harvested shrooms

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Maito]
    #20618012 - 09/25/14 04:21 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

^^^ as he said i think you need more airflow like holes in the sides of the very bottom of that box. In the past i used a rack with a paper bag with the bottom cut out and a fan blowing through and it worked great.


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: lighthouse09]
    #20618101 - 09/25/14 04:41 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I put mine between two layers of paper towels and place them on top of the intake filter for my home A/C system (it draws air in from the top).  Cracker dry in no more than 2 days.  Doing it this way, you can stack them pretty high as well.

Being in texas during the summer, my A/C stays on most of the time, so there is always a strong airflow at the filter.  Your situation might be different... you might need to tell the system to stay on (but fan only) or something.

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Mr. Magic]
    #20618118 - 09/25/14 04:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Mini greenhouse dehyrator

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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: PinPornProducer]
    #20618426 - 09/25/14 05:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I will probably get a dehydrator soon but for now ill try cutting the bottom out or running holes down across the bottom.  It has worked in the past for me i just dont get why these wont dry! lol If i put my hand above the box i can feel all the air being shot out the top...seems like its alright. 

So it would help to suspend them in the air then instead of being on the box itself?  I split them all in half after i harvest them i never leave them as a whole mushroom.


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Mr. Magic]
    #20618570 - 09/25/14 06:06 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Before my dehydrator I used window screen stretch across a frame as a drying rack, I would elevate a box fan laying flat across two cinder blocks and have the fan suck the air down through the rack

Like a cold dehydrator


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: mushpunx]
    #20618655 - 09/25/14 06:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

use your big ass dehydrator that you already have in your kitchen until you can buy a proper dehydrator!


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: spacechildo]
    #20618727 - 09/25/14 06:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

I thought about doing that but have seen mixed feelings about it?  Idk i've just seen "no heat" always said before i even started growing them so im nervous to try that.


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Mr. Magic]
    #20618754 - 09/25/14 06:42 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)




Will this help or is this just as effective as before? haha


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Re: Could i be drying my mushrooms in a better way???... [Re: Mr. Magic]
    #20618808 - 09/25/14 06:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago)

That will work alot better, you want air flow on all sides.

Here is what I use for big flushes, I now have a heater at the bottom of the greenhouse to keep the temp at around 95 deg and can dry 12oz in 2 days

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