Drying Process Innovation (?)

[Shady Ways]

I've read a lot of great ways cultivators are drying their finished harvests. I recently thought of something (as I recently harvested some TC and B+ cakes) and wanted to share it with everyone. It's for those with lower volumes (using multiple cakes and such).

After running a fan over the top of the harvest for 24 hours I put the shrooms in a Tupperware container. I've always been one to hold on to old pill bottles from prescriptions because they're good containers for a variety of things and aren't remotely "environmentally friendly." So I took an old pill bottle, drilled several small holes in the top, poured dessicant (Damp Rid) inside and then placed Kleenex over the dessicant and "bingo", there you go! I put the finished bottle inside the Tupperware with the shrooms to be dried to a cracker crisp consistency.

This seems to be working well and the chemicals have no direct contact with the shrooms.

My first batch I used a suggestion I read where someone wrapped the dessicant in papertowel and taped closed (like packets). I put the shrooms and dessicant in an old cigar box (which are constructed from Spanish Cedar) and when I recently opened the cigar box there was water in it (presumably moisture from the surrounding atmosphere). Fortunately the shrooms in the cigar box were in baggies and did not get wet (whoa...close one!).

Just a thought... maybe it's of use to others!

Peace

[greenmeanie]

Yeah that cigar box must have absorbed moisture from the air around it. In a container like that you have to check and replace the dessicant often. The tupperware and pill bottle sounds like a great airtight way to do it.

Also, if you can't find Damprid, you can easily make dessicant from Epsom Salts. Just heat in an oven until the water leaves the crystal structure (making it anhydrous) et voila. You have a drying agent you can use on acetone, ethanol, or air. Only problem is it's a pretty fine powder so would work better in a paper packet than a pill bottle.