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mike3000
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Drying without any equipment
#7657700 - 11/20/07 03:24 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Are there any simple methods to drying? like just leaving them in a cardboard box in the open? I the shroom is quite big I will just cut it down the middle, I'd rather a slight loss of potency than a rotten shroom. Any help appreciated.
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#7657739 - 11/20/07 03:48 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: Chemy]
#7657758 - 11/20/07 03:57 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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what a friend does is that he chops the shrooms into 1cm pieces and puts them on a paper napkin and waits 3 days. they will be dry enough to store in a plastic baggie and it doesn't effect potency either, just leave them in a warm room that's low humidity and slow air flow and they'll dry just fine. the more surface is exposed the faster they dry.
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7657764 - 11/20/07 04:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Save all the silica gell packets that you get in boxes of stuff, open them up into a bowl and dry them in the oven, then use in a air tight container with the shrooms cut into small peices, they should dry pretty well.
Also a fan blowing on the for a day gets them pretty dry too.
Drying them in the updraft of warm air too works pretty well. Try an keep the warm air below 95F.
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: veda_sticks]
#7657771 - 11/20/07 04:24 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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after some fan drying, stick em in a container with driveway ice melter(basically small pellets of calcium chloride).
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if you cant get that and have access to a local pharmacy, buy some Epsom salt(magnesium sulphate) and lay it on a tray in the oven for bout half an hour. this turn it into big rocky chunks and gets all the moisture out of it and , thus rendering it Anhydrous Magnesium Suphate
both are very well known dessicants.
i use a combination of both and are very very cheap. well both were available for me .
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: galadar]
#7657774 - 11/20/07 04:25 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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after some fan drying, stick em in a container with driveway ice melter(basically small pellets of calcium chloride).
that stuff helps you dry shrooms?
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: Bridgeburner]
#7657778 - 11/20/07 04:27 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said:
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after some fan drying, stick em in a container with driveway ice melter(basically small pellets of calcium chloride).
that stuff helps you dry shrooms?
sure does and very well might i add. calcium chloride is a wideley used material.
here is something i pulled up. Many Uses of Calcium Chloride
Edited by galadar (11/20/07 04:29 AM)
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: galadar]
#7657786 - 11/20/07 04:33 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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If it can suck moisture out of the air, then in a sealed container it will dry the shrooms.
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: galadar]
#7657787 - 11/20/07 04:33 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I suggest either shucking out the $10 for a a little electric fan, (great for drying clothes too!) which will do the job in about 12-20 hours, OR putting them in a basket over your hot water heater for a few days. cutting them up will make things happen faster, but I dont think they will rot if you dont, I never do.
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: kala22333]
#7657790 - 11/20/07 04:38 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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calcium chloride works great for me 
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: grandesign]
#7657793 - 11/20/07 04:41 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yea nice grand design, i partially dry them near a fan till they get sorta like dry but still flexible, then stick em in a setup like you have there but with a lid type fixure. overnight dried shrooms =]
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: galadar]
#7657800 - 11/20/07 04:46 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yaeh i cant be doing with having a fan running so i just keep changing the dissicant till dry still only takes two days once the out sides are dry i split them to get the insides dry i might try using a fan to begin with one day:)
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Re: Drying without any equipment [Re: grandesign]
#7657802 - 11/20/07 04:48 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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yea ice melt aint that expensive . only problem , is like all desicants it gets clumpy and with ice melt its slimy and wierd haha
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