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SolveEtCoagula · 03-05-05, 12:59

Thanks I am gonna try adding just alittle verm to them and heat pads won't be needed due to weather changing soon (hopefully).

My grain prep tek before now has always been to soak them for 15-24 hours, take them out, pour them on beach towels, let them sit for awhile and brush dry them with the towel. Then when I think they are ready I just loadem up into bags and pc them.

I know it is a moisture problem I just wasn't sure what was causing it.

The expansion of air in the bag several days after kind of baffled me. I was thinking that it had more to do with it by creating a dome for water to evaporate, rise up, and cling to until it finally built up enough that it 'rained' heh. The hydrologic cycle in a bag =( I have no clue how ot make the bags not expand with air after several days of incubation it just expands like a baloon very slowly.

Anyways I am starting to think its a combination of heatpad+too much moisture thanks for the verm tip I will try it.

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SolveEtCoagula Mycophage Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 136	Thanks I am gonna try adding just alittle verm to them and heat pads won't be needed due to weather changing soon (hopefully). My grain prep tek before now has always been to soak them for 15-24 hours, take them out, pour them on beach towels, let them sit for awhile and brush dry them with the towel. Then when I think they are ready I just loadem up into bags and pc them. I know it is a moisture problem I just wasn't sure what was causing it. The expansion of air in the bag several days after kind of baffled me. I was thinking that it had more to do with it by creating a dome for water to evaporate, rise up, and cling to until it finally built up enough that it 'rained' heh. The hydrologic cycle in a bag =( I have no clue how ot make the bags not expand with air after several days of incubation it just expands like a baloon very slowly. Anyways I am starting to think its a combination of heatpad+too much moisture thanks for the verm tip I will try it.