How to dry Scerotia Tampanensis

[sonnyblack793]

Hello,

i have a few fresh gram sclerotia tampanensis (truffles) and i dont know how to dry them.

i there a possibility that somebody could explain to me?would it be enough to just open the bag and lay them on a paper for a few days till they are dry?

please help me thanks guys

 

[sn23]

You'd want to aquire silica gel bags, they're perfect for drying. Just put them in an airtight container and a paper with your truffles ontop of them. Close and wait a few days. They'll turn hard as stone.
Just opening the bag is likely not so good, the moist air inside it is appealing to mold. Better to place the truffles on a paper in a dry and warm (but not too warm) room. Make sure to have them small enough, so that they can dry in a matter of days (but not too small, because psilocin does not like oxygen).

Good luck

Ah, forgot something: to eat them, it may be necessary to rehydrate them in for example orange juice or something like that. They really get hard and could damage your teeth. One more thing, if possible, weigh them before and after drying, so you can calculate reasonable doses. Enjoy!

 

[sonnyblack793]

hello and thanks for your answer

but i dont understand exactly what you mean, sorry my english is pretty bad

i have a few silicia gel bags. do you think i can open the bag with my truffles, put them on a paper with the silicia gel bags between them and then just waiting? temparature in my room is 17-24° depends on night or day

 

[sn23]

No problem, mine isn't good either. Probably that's why my answer isn't understandable

Yes that should work well. Be sure that the truffles and the silica gel are in a closed box so that no air can get into it (because the humidity from the outside air is a problem then).
How old are your silica gel bags? If they are in fresh air for some time they absorb humidity from the air until they are saturated and won't work anymore.
And check that the truffles don't touch the silica gel. You don't want something you're going to eat be in contact with chemicals

 

[sonnyblack793]

hehe, okay.

they are lying now on the ground of my room on a paper, between them the 2 small bags of silicia gel. hope that it will work do you think i should put them in a box? isnt this too much risk for moul,if there is no air circulation in the box...i just know how to dry weed, and if the weeds still pretty wet and u put it in a box it will start going mouldy.

the silicia gel bags are pretty fresh, i took them out of supplement boxes that i ordered 20 days ago.

 

[Solipsis]

No don't leave silica packets (or other desiccant) out in the open, it will absorb all the water it can from the ambient air and will be unable to dry the sclerotia properly. If it is too late for your silica, some of them are rechargable by putting the packs in the oven at a reasonable temperature to dry it out.

Leaving the sclerotia just on a sheet of paper (avoid paper towels because you do not want them sticking to the sclerotia or mushrooms) is fine as a first stage. It's best to let some air wash over it, a fan can do that - it only has to be at a quite minimal setting, for nothing more than recycling of air and the humidity of it and thus the capacity to dry.

Once they are pretty dry, you can leave the sclerotia in an air-tight container that also has the silica or other desiccant in it. In the closed space the silica will dry out the air and the dry air will pull out the last of the water from the sclerotia.

All of this is identical with mushrooms and other things as well (though not something like cannabis, you don't want that too dry!). A difference with mushrooms is that you can eat and chew dry mushrooms but dry sclerotia are hard as shit. You have to rehydrate sclerotia like raisins before you eat them. Just let them sit in some water though not too much otherwise it will be an extraction / tea and you will need to drink the water to avoid losing alkaloids.

 

[Mitchi]

You had a self-therapy thread not too long ago right? Is this your medicine?