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IchorPetrichor
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Re: Rookie drying mistake [Re: gdubs]
#28185236 - 02/13/23 10:13 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Hey. Just buy a cheap dehydrator. Dry your shrooms on max setting (usually 160f) for 24 hours( make sure they are snap cracker dry) and then put your dried fruits in GLASS jars with a desiccant packets. DO NOT do plastic. I've vaccum sealed fruits before and then had them go limp in 9 months. still in vaccuumed bags. plastic breathes. Even with desiccant they might still gather moisture from the air. Glass jar in a dark place. And never powder ur stuff for storage. Powder loses potency fast. doesnt matter how you store it.
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B Traven
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Re: Rookie drying mistake [Re: gdubs]
#28185306 - 02/13/23 10:57 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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gdubs said: I appreciate what you are saying and appreciate how incredibly helpful the shroomery community and have been. Surely though someone shouldn’t have to justify why they might ask a question about their specific situation, especially when new to growing on a forum about cultivation. If there is a better place for these queries please let me know. Often the results to similar queries are individual and not specific to your situation. In this case I did not have access to or time to purchase a dehydrator. It is clear now that that’s the only really practical way forward.
I appreciate that no one might have answered the question but I’m grateful that you have. I only ever post in the hope that I’ll receive an answer from kindly, experienced mycologists such as yourselves. However if not I’d go back and do the necessary searching and reading when I had the time available to do so. I just don’t understand how the post from LadysKnight was helpful is all.
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You'd be surprised. Many situations at least overlap in some of their details. We see very few new ideas or situations here, at the end of the day. Sometimes, it's more about elucidating the mechanisms behind what we're doing, eg., maybe a box fan sitting over a space heater isn't an ideal dehydrator, but unlike damprid it's at least using good principles.
You're not obligated to justify anything. You're free to ignore, or put on ignore, anyone you want here, if you feel that they're not being helpful or just getting on your nerves. They won't know that you did, and noone wil fault you for it. On the other hand, you don't "own" a thread you start, and trying to police it by calling out people who post stuff you don't like or find useful usually doesn't end well.
-------------------- Beware of advice- even this.
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B Traven
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IchorPetrichor said: Hey. Just buy a cheap dehydrator. Dry your shrooms on max setting (usually 160f) for 24 hours( make sure they are snap cracker dry) and then put your dried fruits in GLASS jars with a desiccant packets. DO NOT do plastic. I've vaccum sealed fruits before and then had them go limp in 9 months. still in vaccuumed bags. plastic breathes. Even with desiccant they might still gather moisture from the air. Glass jar in a dark place. And never powder ur stuff for storage. Powder loses potency fast. doesnt matter how you store it.
I'm 100% with you on all of that except for the powder part. I've kept glass jars of powder for months before making chocolate with them, with no discernible loss in potency. Not saying that's advisable, but it's not nearly as dire as people make it out to be. I think it's just that powder can absorb moisture at a much higher rate, and of course has more surface area exposed to oxygen. I always heat everything on the base of my dehydrator when moving material between jars or doing any work, and I'm not repeatedly dipping into a jar of powder at (damp) room temperature. So moisture is being expelled from the hot jars, if anything, and the material is cooling back down in a sealed jar with no access to moisture. I think that's usually where people run into problems- dipping into containers of powder and picking up a little bit of atmospheric moisture each time. If you keep it dry, and away from light and air, there's no real reason for powder to degrade any quicker than whole fruit. The oxygen in a sealed jar is a finite amount, so it'll just get consumed by oxidation either way.
Given the value of homogenizing material for dosing purposes, I just thought this was worth mentioning.
Edited by B Traven (02/13/23 11:15 AM)
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