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RE: Foraging for Lifelong Memories
The biggest I have seen is about 8 inches across. It was my first time out and didn't take them right away and when I came back the critters had gotten to it :(
Yes, that would be so awesome if there was a way to test it. My first batch I don't dry them I just put them straight into a boil and so I lost a bunch of potencies but I am drying two batches right now. Can I ask how did you dry them? I can't afford a food dehydrator so I just have them on a window screen with a fan blowing on them and a dehumidifier underneath and it's working, just really slowly. Have they held up nicely?
I found mine in southern Colorado and had to make it all the way back home after a week or more of climbing through Utah, Idaho, and Montana. I split the caps and stems between pillow cases, put them into a plastic tub with a big tub of desiccant. This got me home with minimal loss. Once home I put them onto my food dehydrator at a low heat and slow dried them. What you are are doing will work well and should help preserve the potency. Mine are doing pretty well, they are not quite as potent now but that isn't much of a problem as I still have over 8 oz so I can just use more. 🤣
Ha ha! Crazy, good thing you got so many! I am trying to put as much away as possible this year and see what I end up with. The woods around here are crawling with them and no one here will touch them, well besides me. None going in my woods though, too bad! Thanks for the input, glad to find others out here on steemit!
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That's killer you have no competition! People just don't know the power of them or are scared due to the red cap. I wish I could find them more often here, the east side of the state here is not nearly as plentiful as the west side. We have boat loads of black morels though with all the burn scars.