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fastlearner
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: twoseeeye]
#22217248 - 09/10/15 02:54 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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twoseeeye said: I made a dehydrator with a box, a lamp, and a fan. it did the job overnight and consisted only of household items.
That's awesome love the ingenuity..
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fastlearner
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22217256 - 09/10/15 02:56 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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abductee said: can you buy a food dehydrators at like Canadian tire or Walmart, big stores like that?
Absolutely Wal-Mart has a few different ones and they start around 30$ American
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Psilosoulful

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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22217265 - 09/10/15 02:58 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I got my Presto dehydrator from amazon(60$) + free shipping. It's a necessary investment, and it'll last you a long time.
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abductee
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: Psilosoulful]
#22217284 - 09/10/15 03:03 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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K guys, thanks for the info.. I'm not sure if I should wait for shipping, takes weeks. How much can you do at once in the ones you guys got?
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nobody83
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: Psilosoulful]
#22217286 - 09/10/15 03:04 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Psilosoulful said: Get a food dehydrator, best way to dry them IMO.
Then once they are cracker dry (135f for 12 hours should be more than enough), store them in a mason jar with a small silica gel packet to keep them that way for a LONG time. 

I personally think that drying in 135F (around 57C) is way to warm. I dry mine at the lowest setting of my food dehydrator which is 95F (35C).
GT
The active chemicals in your mushies will degrade at temps MUCH higher than the highest food dehydrator temp.(165f I believe)
I used to dry my mushies at the lowest setting too, but it takes way too long to get them CRACKER dry. One time I stored fruits that I believed were fully dry, then after a week when I went to take some, the stems/caps were all squishy. And the potency definitely decreased as a result of still having moisture in them when stored.
Ask any TC about potency loss, they all say crank up the dehydrator!!
You don't even need a TC to tell you to crank that shit UP
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abductee
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: nobody83]
#22217291 - 09/10/15 03:05 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mine never got dry to where I was able to crack in two.. should I take them out and let them dry longer?
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Psilosoulful

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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22217325 - 09/10/15 03:13 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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abductee said: K guys, thanks for the info.. I'm not sure if I should wait for shipping, takes weeks. How much can you do at once in the ones you guys got?
The shipping was like 4 days with amazon prime. And the dehydrator comes with like 4 or 5 trays, so it can fit plenty of mushies!! 
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abductee said: Mine never got dry to where I was able to crack in two.. should I take them out and let them dry longer?
That's bad, storing while the fruits still contain moisture will cause degradation of the actives. Make sure it snaps like a twig before storing. Also, pick up some silica gels. You can make a desiccant chamber and place your mushies in there, it should be FULLY dry in a day or so.
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: Psilosoulful]
#22217346 - 09/10/15 03:22 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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yea, I was supposed to make one of those desiccant chambers. Some of them snap like a twig, the smaller ones, but others still bend a little. I only had them in a bag for a couple days, so I hope it hasnt hurt them. That's awesome shipping time, and good to know there's plenty trays..
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Psilosoulful

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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22217367 - 09/10/15 03:29 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mad Season
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: GrimTripper]
#22217383 - 09/10/15 03:32 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Psilosoulful said: The active chemicals in your mushies will degrade at temps MUCH higher than the highest food dehydrator temp.(165f I believe)
I used to dry my mushies at the lowest setting too, but it takes way too long to get them CRACKER dry. One time I stored fruits that I believed were fully dry, then after a week when I went to take some, the stems/caps were all squishy. And the potency definitely decreased as a result of still having moisture in them when stored.
Ask any TC about potency loss, they all say crank up the dehydrator!!
Ok, if you say so m8, I'll give it a shot next time. Maybe I was being too careful 'bout drying them.
GT
http://bfy.tw/1jbA
All sources say it has a melting point of 172-174° CELSIUS. This equates to 340 - 350F. MUCH MUCH higher than any dehydrator will ever get to.
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Pajariyo
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: Mad Season]
#22217940 - 09/10/15 05:55 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Wow thanks for all the info guys, i learn a lot here and yes Mex are for Mexicans They are growing well, and fast, pic of this night i just open to do the air exchange, its my first kit, my next personal grows gonna be better continue sharing opinions and advices
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: Pajariyo]
#22217963 - 09/10/15 06:02 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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nice clusters, take a clone of one of the smaller pins off the cluster. Have you looked into agar? Its something i recommend.
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Pajariyo
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22217977 - 09/10/15 06:06 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I dont know how to do it, i read about it, but it scares me a bit, i was thinking to get spores and do my personal syringes and do some PF-TEK's or casing
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abductee
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: Pajariyo]
#22218002 - 09/10/15 06:11 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was first intimidated, but after making it once or twice it became as easy as making jello, or kraft dinner. The thing is just using sterile techniques when actually wiping the spores or putting the clone in the dish. check out this tek http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/19208976
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Pajariyo
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22218017 - 09/10/15 06:16 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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abductee said: I was first intimidated, but after making it once or twice it became as easy as making jello, or kraft dinner. The thing is just using sterile techniques when actually wiping the spores or putting the clone in the dish. check out this tek http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/19208976
Thanks for the link abductee you know if i can get te second flush, putting the cake on a transparent plastic box with perlite and holes? And put out the cake of her case? To get more mushrooms? thanks for your patience
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fastlearner
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22218051 - 09/10/15 06:23 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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1/4 pint jars with 1/4 inch of agar in the bottom is my preferred method for agar easy to seal up jars easy to pc and easy to handle and agar is way way faster to not only isolate good growth but way faster to inoculate grain jars than a multispore syringe. Full colonization in two weeks compared to three or more weeks from multispore. Maybe faster than two weeks if u shake em good
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Pajariyo
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: fastlearner]
#22218084 - 09/10/15 06:31 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Its posible my question to get the second flush on my plastic box with perlite and taking the cake out of her case to get more mushrooms? Or im gonna get the same amount of them?
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22218100 - 09/10/15 06:33 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sure can. But I found a plastic cheap one at the salvation army for three dollars. No temp settings but my temp gun says 140f and it came with five racks. Idk what they cost at WalMart and places like that.
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: PabloSumgie]
#22218157 - 09/10/15 06:43 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm not familiar with working with cakes or perlite. I've just done dub tubs and mono tub. Man, when you isolate a strain a few times.. Woosh.. they colonize fast. Especially with tiger drops.
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fastlearner
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Re: 8 days of my Mex growing kit (share your opinion) [Re: abductee]
#22218799 - 09/10/15 09:06 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Man, when you isolate a strain a few times.. Woosh.. they colonize fast. Especially with tiger drops.
He'll yes my cambos were amazingly fast I only transferred out four times from multispore and wow it grew fast in the jar and in my mono went from spawn to harvest in 18 days
-------------------- I have no knowledge of any illegal activities that I may or may not have been involved in heard of saw or imagined. Any statements made by me have no basis in scientific facts or real life applications. I've never cultivated mushrooms or any other illegal substance and do not intend to do so ever. I read a book on it once but I'm dyslexic so I probably got shit backwards.
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