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Offlinelegitlogic
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Drying freshly picked shrooms
    #5899027 - 07/25/06 06:08 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

After alot of rain here in Texas i was able to go out and pick a sack of shrooms. Now i wanted to dry them so what i did was laid them all out in a shoe box and put a fan on them and i left them there for about 4 hours. When i came back they were pretty dry but the caps kinda shrunk and the stems got really skinny is that what is supposed to happen or did i do something wrong? Sorry im kinda new to this....any help will be greatly appreciated.


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Re: Drying freshly picked shrooms [Re: legitlogic]
    #5899041 - 07/25/06 06:15 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

> the caps kinda shrunk and the stems got really skinny is that what is supposed to happen

Yes, that's normal.


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Re: Drying freshly picked shrooms [Re: fastfred]
    #5899137 - 07/25/06 06:43 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

you should use a desacant.


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Re: Drying freshly picked shrooms [Re: tb01]
    #5899238 - 07/25/06 07:08 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

But remember, the correct dryness is 'Crack dry'

A fan is fine, as long as you don't mind running it for a day or two.


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Re: Drying freshly picked shrooms [Re: MustardMan]
    #5899332 - 07/25/06 07:32 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

cracker?


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Re: Drying freshly picked shrooms [Re: tb01]
    #5899342 - 07/25/06 07:35 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

tb01 said:
you should use a desacant.


no not really, if he can get them cracker dry withought desiccant it's preferrable IMO..


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Re: Drying freshly picked shrooms [Re: Yamidude]
    #5899565 - 07/25/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

The drier the better. It sounds like your doing things properly.


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