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Inocuole
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: crackbaby]
#22490033 - 11/07/15 10:22 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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If you're worried about loss of potency, making it take longer for them to dry, and giving them a period of not being completely dry, with no moving air, is about the worst thing you could do. Don't be paranoid of a thing, and then do something that definitely causes that thing. 
You can pressure cook a mushroom at 15psi and still trip.
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: crackbaby]
#22490052 - 11/07/15 10:26 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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crackbaby said: I've had great results using a food dehydrator with digital temp setting (Presto brand from walmart) set to 110 degrees for about 8 hours, then putting the shrooms (which by now are about 90% dry)into tupperware container suspended by wire mesh an inch above damp rid for another 8-10 hours.
Why would you do that?
Why not 160 degrees for at least 12 hours, and then not have to worry about changing out the desiccant? Don't understand getting them 90% dry and then making it take longer than it has to.
I figure doing it that way exposes da shrooms to a minimum amount of heat to become properly dried...i guess 160 degrees would still be ok, but i've had good results with 110 degrees (maybe i'm a little neurotic worrying about loss of potency ). The damp rid is only like 3 bucks a bag at home depot, and easy to set up
Damn gotta love them US supermarkets. Am jealous.
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Inocuole
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Supalemonhaze]
#22490092 - 11/07/15 10:33 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've never bought damp-rid in my life, so that's 3 dollars x infinity(for all the times I haven't bought it), coming out to a total of infinity(x3) dollars that I didn't spend on damp-rid. Now that's savings!
Really though, running a dehydrator for a little longer is a lot cheaper and less effort than buying and replacing damprid.
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impatientguy
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Supalemonhaze]
#22490113 - 11/07/15 10:37 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I like to actually store mine with damp rid.
And damn with that kinda humidity it must be kinda easy to grow Drying is a bitch but hey haha
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impatientguy
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Inocuole]
#22490143 - 11/07/15 10:42 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Inocuole said: I've never bought damp-rid in my life, so that's 3 dollars x infinity(for all the times I haven't bought it), coming out to a total of infinity(x3) dollars that I didn't spend on damp-rid. Now that's savings!
Really though, running a dehydrator for a little longer is a lot cheaper and less effort than buying and replacing damprid.
Lol you say that like you have to replace it all the time. I haven't EVER replaced my damp rid in my container.and it's been used to dry (after mostly dry from fan drying) close to a pound.
And I only used like less than a dollars worth. I also use it for storage of seeds and herb and mushies.
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Inocuole]
#22490168 - 11/07/15 10:48 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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impatientguy said: I like to actually store mine with damp rid.
And damn with that kinda humidity it must be kinda easy to grow Drying is a bitch but hey haha
Believe it or not we dont have any psychoactive shrooms growing outside. Nor do we have edible ones as far as I know ( might be wrong about the edibles). Dont really see much wild shrooms anyway but when I used to live in a town which had a few spots with dense trees I used to see some big yellow/grayish shrooms grow. I find the humidity here useless for cultivation because one still has to use an FC since the temp is usually high causing the substrate to dry out.
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Inocuole said: I've never bought damp-rid in my life, so that's 3 dollars x infinity(for all the times I haven't bought it), coming out to a total of infinity(x3) dollars that I didn't spend on damp-rid. Now that's savings!
Really though, running a dehydrator for a little longer is a lot cheaper and less effort than buying and replacing damprid.
So you never use a silica for storing the shrooms after dehydrating? Or is damprid not made of it?
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Inocuole said: You can pressure cook a mushroom at 15psi and still trip.
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Inocuole
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Supalemonhaze]
#22490240 - 11/07/15 11:01 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I have a few silica gel packets that I put in bags of fully dried mushrooms. I just ask my friends to collect them and send em my way. I have more than I need by a good margin.
Wait @impatient- You store your herb (I assume you mean weed) with damprid? The fuck? I sure hope you mean some kind of other herb. I store my weed with boveda 62% two way humidity packs.
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Inocuole]
#22490262 - 11/07/15 11:06 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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What's wrong with damprid? I always thought it was silica
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impatientguy
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Inocuole]
#22490269 - 11/07/15 11:07 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I run 100 percent of my weed into oil so for me the dryer the better. My nugs will powder just from a light squeeze. The taste is just fine still just no water weight at all.
It's easier to extract/less drying time.
I've used damprid to dry my hash out as well
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impatientguy
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Supalemonhaze]
#22490277 - 11/07/15 11:08 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Supalemonhaze said: What's wrong with damprid? I always thought it was silica
Lol nothing it rocks
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: impatientguy]
#22490294 - 11/07/15 11:12 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yea but I mean what is it? Is it another type of desiccant rather than silica?
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impatientguy
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Supalemonhaze]
#22490310 - 11/07/15 11:16 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Supalemonhaze said: Yea but I mean what is it? Is it another type of desiccant rather than silica?
Mine is made up of calcium chloride it says on the bag.
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Mad Season
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Supalemonhaze]
#22490333 - 11/07/15 11:21 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'll betcha supale that I could grow in that climate with no fruiting chamber, and I know you could too. I've done 10% rh open air lol... Had to mist 2-3 times a day if I didn't want it to dry out. Heat may dry it out. That's why you mist! No different than any other chamber really.
Also in a high rh place that sounds all good to me. Dehydrator until cracked dry then vacuum seal them. No need for silica or any of that shit. Also I've never once had a mushroom break when I vacuum sealed it (cause people think it will). I just don't vacuum it all the way. Just most of the way.
Edited by Mad Season (11/07/15 11:22 AM)
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: impatientguy]
#22490341 - 11/07/15 11:23 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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impatientguy said: I run 100 percent of my weed into oil so for me the dryer the better.
You're my kind of guy!
Edited by iSmkGrnBud (11/07/15 11:23 AM)
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impatientguy
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: iSmkGrnBud]
#22490378 - 11/07/15 11:33 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Haha hell yeah!
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Inocuole
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: iSmkGrnBud]
#22490388 - 11/07/15 11:35 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I see... call me old fashioned but I'm still into squishy soft smooth hitting nugs. Probably won't be full into oils until it's legal around here.
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Mad Season]
#22490487 - 11/07/15 12:01 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Mad Season said: I'll betcha supale that I could grow in that climate with no fruiting chamber, and I know you could too. I've done 10% rh open air lol... Had to mist 2-3 times a day if I didn't want it to dry out. Heat may dry it out. That's why you mist! No different than any other chamber really.
Also in a high rh place that sounds all good to me. Dehydrator until cracked dry then vacuum seal them. No need for silica or any of that shit. Also I've never once had a mushroom break when I vacuum sealed it (cause people think it will). I just don't vacuum it all the way. Just most of the way.
Yes I think I read that post. Its the one where some of them had cracked caps?(might have been RR's experiment im not sure) What I meant about humidity being useless is that since I dont have the time to check in on it every couple of hours I prefer to play it safe and put it in a relatively set and forget FC. Hell I think in this climate if I were to start dumping my spent tubs under some trees I would be the one responsible for introducing psychoactive shrooms into my country lmao. Maybe they might make a monument for me if I did. Either that or give me a life sentence .
Dont have a vacuum sealer atm but I guess an airtight container is just as good will work fine for now. I suspect that my silica was rehydrating my shrooms because I just did a test with 1 shroom a few hour's ago after oven drying the silica cat litter and it seems like its doing fine. Guess ill know for sure by the morning. I will buy the silica gel in the near future (unless im better off without it.) I like how it indicates how wet it is. Dont think its expensive.
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: iSmkGrnBud]
#22493286 - 11/07/15 10:05 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I got a large container and filled the bottom with silica gel and put a plastic platform with a paper towel with the mushrooms ontop of that when i left earlier today . now im home and they are already feeling close to cracker dry.
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Leatus]
#22498642 - 11/08/15 11:41 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I got an update for y all. Seems like I found the problem. It was as I suspected the silica was rehydrating my mushies. If any of you experience this with cat litter
A) put it in the over for an hour or so B) don't be a cheapo, go buy indicator gel you moron how are you supposed to know if the kitty litter is wet? (this is meant for me actually)
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Re: Mushrooms getting soggy again when put in desiccant chamber. [Re: Supalemonhaze]
#22498698 - 11/09/15 12:04 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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They need to be cracker dry before you put them in an airtight container with desiccant period! think of the damp rid like a stabiliser not an extractor.
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