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Dry tent 1
#28792584 - 05/29/24 04:25 PM (7 months, 15 days ago) |
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Getting back into the hobby, I thought I would step it up a bit. I wanted to use a single 4x4 grow tent to serve 2 functions. One as a ambient still air environment with a actual sab to conduct specimen work, and the other as a means to dry harvested fruits, with a herb mesh rack, box fan, and dehumidifier. I know alot of folks prefer dehydrators come dry time but I'm not a fan of baking my fruits prior to ingestion, that's just me. My last harvest I made the mistake of plate drying in a damp basement with napkins in between. While that method had worked in a different & dryer environment before. I only found some traces of mold and trashed the whole batch while attempting to dry in a damp basement. To use a tent for 2 seperate purposes, it will come with some planning and time management. Then Grandma was quick to point out that if doing sab work in a tent that earlier had drying fruits with a fan blowing it would be self evident of residual floating spores and not prove a environmentally friendly for culture work. I thought I could get a pump sprayer and saturate the inside of the tent walls with diluted bleach but that's to much work I'm just going to get another tent and keep everything seperate and dedicated.

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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 2
#28792818 - 05/29/24 07:06 PM (7 months, 15 days ago) |
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I mean I've never used either of these techniques, but I know what it's like coming back and its thrilling good luck!
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Gorguss]
#28792848 - 05/29/24 07:34 PM (7 months, 15 days ago) |
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Thank you, I agree it's thrilling to get back at it. I'm thinking by having a dedicated tent for a sab with the arm holes sealed with glad wrap when not using will make for less particulate floating around. I mean regardless everytime going in and out of the tent will stir up airborne funk. I want to go in the tent, zip it up, sterilize everything, and then sit there for 30 minutes to allow settling of the air particles, then put on a mask and fresh gloves to get to work. Surely this is better than raw dogging it in open air with no sab at all? I have a history of working with stuff in open air and thought it was time to clean up the process as I have not had any success with agar yet. Perhaps a step in the right direction? Grandma makes fun of me as says I need a 4x8 tent so that I can shower on the other side first.
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 1
#28792858 - 05/29/24 07:44 PM (7 months, 15 days ago) |
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I kind of like that idea. Like a quick mini pop up lab.
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Totally pop up, take it up and down as needed, convenient to store, and easy to sterilze with diluted bleach pump sprayer. Mobile fungi lab work. We come to you for all of your culture work needs. The shower could be split off from the sab work area with a zipper door. A decontamination shower under high pressure. There's a movie called "the arrival", where the people showered in containment while wearing radiation suits after being on the alien ship and before reentry to the open area with other people. This would be a shower before working with a sab, but then you would being doing agar work naked in a grow tent. Well I guess you could put on a fresh pair of drawers or a clean lab coat. I know far fetched but entertaining the least.
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Because I'm getting vamped up again and don't have any harvestable fruits as yet, I thought I would test the drying tent with a wet towel. I noted a baseline reading of 54% relative humidity, then after the wet towel hang it spiked to 99% rh with the 28" fan tilted straight up at it from the floor. I just turned the dehumidifier on and I'm going to give it a couple hours to see what happens. It's a smaller dehumidifier, 95 Oz reservoir, rated for 800 Sq ft. Given its a 16 Sq ft tent that will house mesh racks of shrooms vs. A saturated dripping wet towel, I'm assuming the smaller dehumidifier unit will work out just fine. A wet dripping towel will bring a much higher percentage of airborne moisture that a full mesh rack of fruits could comparitivly ever bring. I realize I could have gotten a dehydrator for the fraction of cost in components and relative ease. I'm personally not a fan of superheating before consumption. That's just me, while I respect the majority of members here that do use the manual dehydration method. I'm leaning towards the air dry because the local culinary mushroom shop fan dries. I must remind myself that commercial mushroom supply for cooking & food prep purposes, with a force dry dehumidification probably alters the tissue to less than desired for culinary services.


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I once turned a whole bed room into a dehydrator. Lots of bra racks, 3 space heater and faning out the window. Which did well, but took a lot time and fda wasn't having it. If the standard dehydrator isn't big enough for food processing and you have a business tax ID I can't recommend the 96 tray ones.
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Why thank you for the great suggestion and I apologize in my verbage for being so darn confusing at best. I personally don't like the manual dehydration method by means of high heat to accelerate drying. I realize it's a common practice but one I dont use, and its just personal preference. I remember when Grandma financed a food truck for a non profit, because it was food for public consumption (even free plates), she still had to have the borrower form a corporation, get the tin#, business insurance, and apply for the county public health stamp before the lending process completed. I'm sure she could purchase using the tax id number since she's a listed member of the corporation, but again I don't like heated dehydration. In the past she has voiced she would be willing to support my hobby and buy a 50 gallon steam kettle commercial pressure cooker. It was wild thou because she priced it right off the net at 23k with get this, no tax ID needed. I declined because I didn't want to get into Class 1 controlled substance manufacturing at a grand scale, and that I store buy all my gear. Im just a hobby enthusiast, running a tub at a time. Oh Grandma your the best for your enthusiastic support! I guess she really had oysters in mind and not cubes. Say, thanks again
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 5
#28808944 - 06/11/24 09:18 AM (7 months, 2 days ago) |
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hi funfarm
im confused as to why you would prefer such a complicated and ineffective method of drying your fruits. using a food dehydrator is neither "baking" nor "superheating", its dehydrating. thats why they call it that
im also confused as to why you would want to spend time setting up a whole tent just to do SAB work. all you have to do is close the windows or turn off the AC. no need to put on clean clothes or sanitize the surrounding area, thats not how a SAB works
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Yes, my thinking was doing the sab inside a tent would allow for a cleaner environment as the ambient air is full of pet dander and molds in a damp wet basement. My prior logic was keeping the sab in the tent would cut back on alot of the dirty ambient air particulate and thus less chance with failure with cultures. "A barrier within a barrier". After thinking about it, with input from Grandma & you I'm going to conduct SAB operations on the well lit and clean kitchen counter upstairs where the air is drier with less mold and bacteria anyways. Giving the sab a chance to work its proven theory without the need of a condom tent which I can safely say has pin holes in anyways. The drying tent was created because both Grandma and I will be using it for other drying events, herbs, flowers, peppers, and the etc. We wanted something bigger with more working space. Not that I'm going to be pumping out mass amounts of fruits as I'm just a tub at a time guy. Anyways the tent was just to keep the light off, and the pet hair out. While the 28" pedestal fan on high setting has got the air moving well on the inside. I'm glad I experimented this process with a wet towel to dial in, as the next step is to try a grocery store produce pack of white mushrooms to see how it fairs. Anyways by experience of the wet towel, I found this morning by simply unzipping the lower seam of the entry flap on the tent, it allowed the relative humidity to drop from 99% to 74% in literally just a minute all while keeping positive pressure with the fan and allowing moist air to escape the interior, and a majority of light out. That with the dehumidifier reservoir halfway full (estimated 48 ounces of water dumped in 12 hours), a dryer towel than started, all tells me the set up is working. Now is it working as efficient as a dehydrator, I can't answer that, but in theory I believe it's working the same. I always appreciate the frog avatar friend
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 1
#28809069 - 06/11/24 10:49 AM (7 months, 2 days ago) |
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ya i do that when i was doing sab work 
    ya its ezer to get a still air enviorment all around a small area
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NICE! Good pics
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 2
#28809143 - 06/11/24 11:56 AM (7 months, 2 days ago) |
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I do it on the table next to blooming flowers and the sink. I have 2 cats and my fiance and stepson are barn animal levels of dirty. The SAB still does the job. You dont need a tent
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In the words of actor Matthew McConaughey (advocate and proud supporter of cannabis), "alright, alright, alright"! Thru experimenting this process it became painfully obvious that by having the fan blowing on the side of the tent where it was unzipped it was pulling some moist air from outside the tent from underneath the floor fan cage (intake). So I switched up the layout a bit. By moving the drying rack over to the unzipped seam side, its now allowing escaping air to blow over the rack and out the tent. Also, by moving the fan away from the broken seal its tendendy is to circulate the air within the tent, without pulling air underneath the fan that was previously by the open zipper. When I moved the fan over it was screaming vacuum, evidence of the sealed tent wall sucking up to the fan cage. The last benefit of fan new placement was more turbulent airflow, evidence of the shaking of the tent walls and drying rack. I went ahead and moved the towel over too to simulate the moisture source, in this case harvested fruits. The humidity dropped from 74% to 60% pretty fast, while the towel continues to dry spots and the reservoir fill. For the purpose of xtra airflow, I unclipped the bottum 2 mesh dry screen racks and put them into the manufacturers handy beach bag carrier. Big shout out to HortiPots with their system. I attached a picture of the moist air escaping the tent over the rack. I apologize many may be thinking shut up funfarm ass cheese and just get a dehydrator, for that I do respect 🙏

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Smellyhobbit said: I do it on the table next to blooming flowers and the sink. I have 2 cats and my fiance and stepson are barn animal levels of dirty. The SAB still does the job. You dont need a tent
Right on! That's what I needed to hear. Thanks again Smellyhobbit, while I can also appreciate the extra barrier pics of tripdawg420
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tripdawg420 said: ya i do that when i was doing sab work 
    ya its ezer to get a still air enviorment all around a small area 
Totally on brand
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Totally, totes mc goats, really on point signature pics BTW milkboy, envy I have
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So.... right on! Here's the final statistics. I started at 6pm yesterday with a heavy soaked saturated dripping wet towel. It's now 5pm, finding in 23 hours the wet towel is now bone dry! Mind you I had the tent all zipped up from 6pm yesterday until 10am this morning when it still presented at 99% humidity. I quickly learned the moisture had no where to go while enclosed in the grow tent. Once I unzipped one seam of the tent at 10am this morning (seeing the towel was still 100% wet) it allowed a place for the moist air to exhaust to. Really a majority of the towel moisture (estimated 90%) was able to dry in the matter of just 7 hours and not the full 23. In short, by using a 28" pedestal fan on high in conjunction with a small dehumidifier the 100% wet beach towel is now dry dry dry! 😀 I attached a picture of the beach sized towel I used in its current dry state to give you a idea of how much moisture was removed in such a short period. In summary, I honestly think it was the large fan pushing air out that worked more than drying the air with a barbie size dehumidifier. Whatever the case, I think this set up will work well with harvested fruits. Next phase produce market purchased mushrooms to test the platform.
 Edit: Grandma says accept the success, skip the trial run with grocery store produce, because in comparison it will have a dried down moisture content in relation to what a freshly picked cube from tub cake would demonstrate, that and the density is different. I know alot of you are thinking shut up asshole, it's just a fan in a box and some screens but for me it was a challenge. Anyways thanks for viewing and the comments, I'm really eager to see and share how the fresh pecker envious blooms fair.
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tripdawg420 said: ya i do that when i was doing sab work 
    ya its ezer to get a still air enviorment all around a small area 
Totally on brand
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I believe the comment "Totally on brand" is voicing support of your method of containment curtain. Believe me I had to look the phrase up for myself.
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ya idk i never heard anyone say it
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That's two of us but I'm pretty sure it was a compliment. I'm still trying to figure out what it means to get ones Rizz on?
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 5
#28809630 - 06/11/24 07:46 PM (7 months, 2 days ago) |
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It is consistent with the Tripdawg brand. Feel free to interpret that however you'd like
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 1
#28809685 - 06/11/24 08:33 PM (7 months, 2 days ago) |
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Just FYI, I am randomly trying out this drying method right right now. I have a grow room I built that is not currently in use. It has an intake and an exhaust and keeps negative pressure with a ton of airflow. It’s pretty humid where I am now, so even with a dehumidifier running I can only get the RH down to about 55%.
Anyway, I dehydrated most of my recent harvest in a a dehydrator but I put some fresh fruit in an herb dryer rack thing in the grow room about two days ago. Will report back tomorrow.
The only reason I am trying this is because I happened to have the grow room available and I actually want to use the dehydrator for other shit. If this works out I guess it could be slightly easier. Definitely not less power consumption. I only dehydrate at 95 degrees but I guess there is some potential appeal to dehydrating in a dark room at around 70 degrees. (From what I have read the actives degrade slightly less in this type of environment.)
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I didn't quote you, but your last sentence is exactly why I'm attempting this method. Now is there a significant difference in compound levels with the 2 different methods? I'm going to speculate no its nil marginal at best. Still I'm continuing on said method really only because I prefer air dryed veggies at 70 degrees vs. A higher heat level. The texture is better in my mind and overall is just a better end product. Now thats just me and not necessarily fact. Mind you this the theory of the local culinary mushroom shop and how they dry. Remember thou we are talking about morels, truffels, chanterels, oysters, and shitakis, a high dollar food product vs. psychoactive mushroom tissue bodies. We may care how a cuisine mushroom looks on a 100 dollar dinner plate but may not really care what a ounce of golden teacher looks likes in the bottum of a ziplock after drying. We often just quick dry to ingest magic with no regards to the mushroom appearance but when it's culinary it's a different animal all together. Now one question, you mentioned negative pressure in your room, that means the ambient pressure around is higher and will force air in. You want positive pressure or positive ventilation to force moist air out. A example of negative pressure was when I had the tent sealed, it never dropped below 99% rh in a 16 hour span. Then when I unzipped the tent, it went to positive pressure or positive air flow venting out the moist air, and crashed the rh% down to 50, drying the towel in 7 hours complete. In summary make sure you have a place for the moist air to escape to, if it's negative pressure it's staying in your room and you will run the chance of wet soggy mold. Let me know if I can give you anymore input because I like to share. Added info here: I just went back and read your numbers, you stated plenty of airflow but 55% rh. OK, in my recent experience, no problem. Remember my tent is in an a subterranean basement meaning it's under the soil grade outside and its very damp. My baseline humidity before adding the wet towel, nor turning on the fan or dehumidifier was....54% I even left a picture of the hygrometer reading in this thread because I knew I would come back to it. Anyways the wet towel was added, components turned on.... up to 99% she goes and hovers until unzipping the tent and later finished drying at 50% reading which ironically is almost your room reading and nearly the same as my baseline reading. So what I'm getting at its not so much about the relative humidity as much as it is about the air movement. I think I could of gotten the tent even lower rh% if I continued to run the dehumidifier/fan combo longer or even beforehand. I would say sure if you had a big dehumidifier or were in desert like conditions that dryer ambient air is only going to serve to wick moisture out quicker but I literally brought a rain box down to dryness with simple air movement. Let me know
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im confused as to why you would prefer such a complicated and ineffective method of drying your fruits. using a food dehydrator is neither "baking" nor "superheating", its dehydrating. thats why they call it that
im also confused as to why you would want to spend time setting up a whole tent just to do SAB work. all you have to do is close the windows or turn off the AC. no need to put on clean clothes or sanitize the surrounding area, thats not how a SAB works
Yes, all you need is the SAB, and still air in the house/room (fan/AC/windows/other)
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From what I have read the actives degrade slightly less in this type of environment
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I didn't quote you, but your last sentence is exactly why I'm attempting this method
this is outdated info. actives are stable at high temps. a shroomery member whos name escapes me PCed his shrooms to prove this point, and i believe there was another experiment involving deep frying. no loss in potency, and a standard food dehydrator gets nowhere near those temps
its been a while since i went down this rabbit hole but from what i remember psilocybin oxidizes in the presence of water. theres some nuance involving pH but basically the best way to preserve the actives is to remove the water quickly with hot air
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bakedbeings said: hi funfarm
im confused as to why you would prefer such a complicated and ineffective method of drying your fruits. using a food dehydrator is neither "baking" nor "superheating", its dehydrating. thats why they call it that
im also confused as to why you would want to spend time setting up a whole tent just to do SAB work. all you have to do is close the windows or turn off the AC. no need to put on clean clothes or sanitize the surrounding area, thats not how a SAB works
Yes, all you need is the SAB, and still air in the house/room (fan/AC/windows/other)
ya i just brought it down to a very small area that it same shit
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That's like putting a flowhood or ffu in a tent, it's a smaller space.....
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It makes zero sense but if it makes you feel better then I guess the placebo works.
  
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its no diffrent than letting ur room settle theres allway still air in there
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So you just invalidated your own statement, bravo.
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what are u trying to say bro
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Keep up
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i really dont even give a fuck what ur saying its what i did it was how it was
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But you just said it's no different to letting the air settle in the room and then proceed to argue the use of a smaller space?
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no there aint no diffrent but there is alway still air in the lil room its what i did my lil still air room wtf
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tripdawg, theres no need to do that. everything is alright man.
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you guys have convinced me. i shall achieve the stillest air possible by arranging a nesting doll of increasingly smaller grow tents
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You go that direction, I'm going ship in a bottle, sab within a sab.
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bakedbeings said: you guys have convinced me. i shall achieve the stillest air possible by arranging a nesting doll of increasingly smaller grow tents
You go that direction, I'm going ship in a bottle, sab within a sab.
yes isnt that like bringing a whole room still to use a sab
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Not directed at anyone as Im trying to make an attempt at humor... I have a crew coming over to wrap the house in poly. I have asked the federal aviation administration to divert flights overhead, I'm going to put cones in the street, and a sign that reads, "SAB work in progress" Beat that one! I just tested and achieved my purple belt in internet karate (that one is really more for the confessional conflict).Anyways like grandma said, let's all eat cookies
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm]
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Got some pseudo wild grown fruits to dry in the tent for first time. Using the fan (pointing straight up at the net), and a small floor dehumidifier. Some scraped outdoor harvest, wanted more fruit to dry but this will be good trial. I let you know how it dried in a couple days.

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Can you keep us posted every few hours and temperature to see how long it takes to dry.
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Great you should ask, I put the freshly harvested shrooms on the net at roughly noon yesterday, then went back and took this baseline pic 3 hours later (51% rh and 75 degrees). Let me drink this here coffee, and I'll will go back downstairs to check the hygrometer readings this morning. I'll let you know the level on the dehumidifier tank too. Hoping to add a second flush on the next net, not sure thou, the site I harvested was a lil crispy from the high outside temps and lack of water for a couple days.
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm]
#28858807 - 07/16/24 06:54 AM (5 months, 29 days ago) |
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Venting air out the partially unzipped seam, while keeping positive pressure with the pedestal fan blowing, the ambient basement humidity and light stays out. The zipper is open a lil bit more than the norm for the pic If you blow the first pic up, the hygrometer pouch can be seen. The dry tent is working better than I anticipated. A slight increase in temp with the dehumidifier working over the cool night. A good 6 to 8 ounces of water in the tank (if not more, while the argument could be made its pulling the wetness of the basement thru the tent walls? A significant drop in rh% indicated, and the outer wall surface of the shroom inspected becoming crispy. Minding it's raining out so the moisture in the atmosphere is ofcourse up and temps down. Summary, 6% rh drop and 2 degree temp increase


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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm]
#28863097 - 07/17/24 07:11 AM (5 months, 28 days ago) |
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No rain in the forcast for the next 5 days so I'm going be able to see how this method really goes down. I turned the tent 90 degrees so that the entry flap is opposite of the window light and then I unzipped the flap a little more in hopes to push more moist air out the tent. The dehumidifier tank has roughly 50% more water than yesterday while the hygrometer reading is steady with no drop since yesterday. However, the fruits are getting close to cracker dry and retaining their original shape for now without shriveling up? With no drop in hygrometer reading but more water in the tank I assume the dehumidifier works most efficiently when freshly picked shrooms are added. I'm going to get a handful more of fresh fruits this morning (realizing this might not be much of a control) to add to the tent. I will take a ruler measurement of the tank capacity level to see what happens when adding more wet components. Summary 46% rh and 77 degrees


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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm] 1
#28863146 - 07/17/24 07:18 AM (5 months, 28 days ago) |
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How many days has it been?
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DERRAYLD, approximately 46 hours since picked and immeadiatly placed on the net in the tent. Went back for what appears to be the last of some outdoor fruit to add to the tent. Immediately the rh% went up and the temp dropped. Got a reservoir measurement at just about 1 7/16 inch capacity. Note to self: use lower net shelf first and then work up when adding fresher picked fungi so that moisture doesn't blow up into (previously harvested) drier tissue from the fan below. Summary, added new shrooms, rh% increased & temp decreased (latent efffect of atmospheric moisture).



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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm]
#28868311 - 07/18/24 07:43 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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After 3 days the first round of fruits are just about snap dry. I would feel more confident in considering canning them tomorrow (4 days total dry time). I do like how they retained alot of the original size and shape as when fresh. The dehumidifier tank capacity went up 5/16", the rh% down at 48, I anticipate it will drop more as the rain stays away.
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Re: Dry tent [Re: Funfarm]
#28871323 - 07/19/24 09:04 AM (5 months, 26 days ago) |
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Cross thread pic here, but I really just wanted to show the before & after comparison (see before & after pic below) to demonstrate how the fruit structure did not shrivel and shrink too badly. After 4 days tent/net drying, the shroom in size closest to this one cracked in 3 places when bending. I wish I would of thought to get a before drying weight on this one, but after the drying process it looks to be just 5.6g. While the stem feels dense and thick. The dehumidifier tank now half way full with the hygrometer stuck at 46% (surely due to the ambient dampness of the basement). I was able to harvest just a lil bit more fresh this morning so I went ahead a scaled this wet (41.7g) to compare to the after drying process weight.



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