Build a perfect fungi/fruit dehydrator for $40! Wiily Myco tek
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This man always used 1and a quarter inch screws I'm starting to suspect willy of drywalling
Hahahaha
I’ve come to notice Ik quite a few dudes doing labor jobs that are into mycology
Just the video I needed. I was thinking of this subject today. You are a wealth of Knowledge Professor Willy! Thank you so much!
This guys videos were so integral to my 1st grow. Significantly educational n helpful. Thank you bro.
Materials:
WOOD:
4ft - 2x1"
6x 19" pcs
6x 20" pcs
FAN:
20x20"
SCREEN:
(3 tiers) - 1 Roll Aluminum Screen (36x84in)
MISC.
Staple Gun (& staples)
Wood Glue
1-1/4in Drywall Screws
@@XEULAS i had to run back to grab another piece after cutting the first one. Wish I saw this first 😂
goated
Spend 80 dollars and 12 hours of time building bullshit, spend 100 on a good dehydration unit specifically made to do this
@@investmentcollections2085 $60 and 30min lol
@@obeekrow7295yea dude Talkin out his a$$ I run 5 stacks of these in a grow tent with big dehumidifier and fan process a ton more and without the maybe potency decrease of a commercial dehydrator
Thank you Willy for sharing your knowledge. Peace and Mush Love to you and yours. ❤🧘♀️🕊🐝🍄🐝
I completely agree. I have dehydrated with an oscillating fan. It might take a little longer but it works like a charm. I did have a dehumidifier running in the same room so that helps.
Yep! I use no heat. And when I did, people bitched. It can take like 4 days to get crispy but it’s worth it!
@@eazy3434 why did people bitch if its better like that? Did you mean that they bitched when you gave them some that were dried with heat?
Keep bringing the medicine to the people king. Thank you for all you do for others and their own ventures.
Just wanted to say thank you for going in depth on every aspect! I am a second guesser of myself so this helps me!
-16 mins of willy
-18 secs of the actual build
"Build"
always skip the first 3 mins of video. Then he breaks stuff down so barney style I fast forward card, I know how to build a wooden frame.
@@markamello8238 BlUdI Did I spell dat rIght
It's his video so if he wants to stand there the whole time and talk he is with in his rights if you guys think you could do better than him please do I'll watch your channel to but until you guys take the time to share your knowledge and use your time to make videos to help other people than I would suggest you shut up and leave little Willy alone 🤣
@@tonyoliveira5769 your mom🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you, I'm glad this works, I bought a mesh basket, and a desk fan for my small setup, I didnt want to buy a dehydrator
this wont work in high humidity areas, so a lot of the south is out. if its 100% humidity and you do this youll just be pushing wet air into the shrooms. also the spores you collect from the bottom of this system would be heavily contaminated with dust and other spores naturally occurring in your home.
I do this with a spaghetti strainer and small fan when I have small amount. Thanks for all the info🙏💙
This was great man. Simple and efficient process. Easily modified design as well 🔥💪🏽
I really appreciate all the info fam. Got my 3d lenses on and theyre working fine!
Nice video, I already have two dehydrators, for fruits, veggies, jerky etc, and I use them with amazing success, I just turn the heat WAY down and it takes a bit longer, but I prefer doing it that way, very low heat works great.
This is the best way to dehydrate shroomers but the only thing I do on top of that is put another sheet of screen over the back of the fan (no need to hold it in place, the fan will hold it with the air suction). It's just an extra layered protection from dust.
I use a filter screen❤
Love this guy I subscribe and have a playlist of just his vedios. Trust me he knows exactly what he is talking about.
Thanks for sharing this man, such great content!
Great video! Thanks for posting as you do
WillyM you are correct and debating this would be more noise pollution. Room temp, as fast as possible, sealed and stored in desiccant chambers. Years ago, the method developed was a room dehumidifier that sucked a half gallon from the air in 4 hours placed in a sealed closet sized dry room. Dried, sealed , and stored in a desiccant chamber all done as fast as possible at room temperature. Back in the dark ages before info was available on the internet, living in a subtropical climate, this method took a while to figure out and was only way to garuntee an indefinite shelf life.
I strongly urge anyone debating necessity of proper drying methods to take high humidity climates into consideration and give proper drying and storage methods a go.
I have small dehumidifier i purchased on ebay i think for around $75 and it works ok. Where i live, it is always hot and humid. So you are saying i should maybe use the method in this video, except put it in a small closet, add my dehumidifier and seal off the door?
love the accent just want him to say "So you think I'm funny?"you mean funny like a clown do I amuse you?"
Funny..... how am I Funny....... Funny like how.......😀😀😀
Lmao right? I start tripping like that.
This guys seems to have more of a new England area. Maybe long Island.
please funny man stop moving your damn hands
@@seanmcguire7974 I've been trying to figure it out for a while. I don't think it's long island.
Exactly the idea in my mind...thanks for confirming!
Nice video brotha! New subscriber 🙏 so much knowledge on your channel
New subscriber here. Appreciate the $40 diy build. I'm new to shrooms. Thanks for the content........
Thanks for the info good sht.I appreciate it man thanks for your time and the video🤜🤛
You could also use the racks to dry rye berries after soaking/simmering
Ayeeeeeee
Lol 20 mins to explain, lay a box fan on some home made screens
Right love the knowledge but he kinda take a long time to explain but can’t complain to much lol
Some people are not detailed enough
this guy makes my head spin!
Yea feedback Willy: love your shit, have used many things - dub tub inc. box was a life saver…But damn, get to the info lol
Some people are dumb and need this extra long help lol
I would also recommend a bottom layer of silica beads if you experience any issues getting that bone dry end result.
As for loading! .... Well ..... Obviously you don't want to waste space on your racks, but you also don't want to pack them in so tightly that they are over lapping, touching one another and crammed in. Especially if towards the outside of the center, near the edges as airflow will be weaker here so being too densely packed you are going to have a hard time allowing the fan to fully circulate that air around, leading to extended drying times or fruits that just never seem to get that perfect snap, as they do when bone dry. I've had it a few times where something hasn't quite dried right and either goes kinda 'chewy' or you leave it longer and it starts to wilt and look ready to mould up!
That's the 2nd reason you shouldn't pack it too much!...over touching fruits etc... They are much much more easier to start to rot against each other as its just moisture on moisture. This will also slow down the drying regardless of where they are placed if pecked near enough on top of each other, touching.
I make sure nothing is touching and lay them out from the middle - outwards.
I kinda make like a spiral with the biggest fruits so they are all nicely positioned with breathing space and by doing the 'kinda' spiral it positions all the biggest ones right above the centre of the fan, then use the smaller ones to, and fill in the rest.
Last tip would be to speed up the process, pop off the caps from stem and make sure starting from your biggest first then work your way down the stack with the smallest ones being able to be left whole, towards the bottom of the rack.
Sometimes things pop up and are ready before you would like and you have a couple 80-90qt low profile totes that all need drying at once! That's a HELL OF A LOT of 'fungi-to-dry'. As someone who uses a good 50/60% of my yield for edibles, 3x 1g capsule packs and the bulk used for microdosing capsules in multiple strengths so harvesting day and big orders can be stressful as I love being able to offer customers the freshest product around, be that dried, powdered capsules or actually multiple ounces of fresh, just picked. I like everything to be picked fresh , dried, processed, packaged and shipped within 48hrs of an order, and if wanting fresh I won't pick and pack till gone 4pm, having all packaging and labels etc sorted. Means I have an hour to pick and weigh before the postal service closes. So picked at 4pm, with them between 9-11am. Like to think that's the best way if you want them fresh.
@Marcus 👉 After they are cracker dry, how do I package them for longterm storage in a freezer? In a glass jar, with a special lid, with desicant packs, or vacuum sealed jar or bagged, or bagged and jarred? Any help 🙏 is greatly appreciated. I am drying APE'S and I just ordered a large freezer because I plan on storing a lot. They may need to be stored long or hopefully not, but I want to do it the best correct way.. 👍Thank you
You're better off using silica in a closed desiccating chamber as it will simply absorb ambient humidity if you use it in the open. The best way I've found was to dry them on window screens in front of a fan for 1-2 days, similarly to what's being shown here, and then transfering your fruits to a desiccating chamber (mine is simply a tote bin to which I've added about 2 inches of silica gel at the bottom, lined it with paper towels to avoid silica gel getting into my fruits even though I put them in paper bags for easy labeling). They usually get bone-dry within 24h if your silica was dry to begin with. If they don't get bone-dry within 24h, put your silica gel in the oven @ 250F for 2 hours and then try again.
This is also a great solution for long-term storage, my last batch of Amazonian is about 2 years old and still very active since I've kept it in these conditions.
I jury-rigged a mesh cloth on a wire shelf and use a fan to dehydrate my first fruits.
Freeze-dry is the absolute best way to preserve potency AND weight! I would like to figure a way to freeze dry on the cheap, maybe something with fried rice? I mean dry ice?
I use a room dehumidifier , funneling the exhaust (dry air) through racks similar to what Willy has.
The dehumidifier I have, blows out 17-20%RH at only 85 F degrees and drys a lot of mushrooms in less than 24 hours. 85 degrees for 24 hours won’t effect potency .
At the end of 24 hours I either put them in jars with an oxygen absorber and dissicant pack. They will stay potent for a year this way.
Or grind to fill capsules. They powder up really well right off the drying rack.
How do you grind them
@@RealOrbit-Australia coffee grinder
I’m gonna do mine this way. Thank you. I’m ramping up again after about 8 years. I can attest to what you said about heat and all that. When me and my friend started out we used a Food dehydrator and they did come out not as potent, we ended up just putting them on card board and it worked good. This way seems a lot better though I’m gonna go for it. Thanks for the pro tip.
Its all in your head. When you look at the science of what is actually occurring with dehydration and thermal degradation of psilocybin, you will realize your “experience” was incorrect.
@@RAM-ft3gk we took them ourselves and handed them out to multiple other people who said they didn’t work. Then with the next flush we didn’t use a dehydrator & they were potent. Pretty sure us and everyone that took them weren’t imagining things. If this last 2 years has taught humanity anything it’s that proclaiming something “science” is the opposite of what science really is.
@@RAM-ft3gk btw I did 10 lbs dry weight since this message using this fan and rack method and they were all potent AF. In my experience the food dehydrator ruined them. It is what it is man 🤷♂️
@@davidsuchite9757 Well your experience means shlt tbh.
@@RAM-ft3gk as does yours. I’m just letting others know this method in the video produces a better product than a dehydrator. People who can’t wait the extra time are just impatient and are in it for the wrong reasons. Have a nice day 😊
Gave me the idea to use a fan. Already got one. No money. I had them in cabinet. Spread them out on bed run the fan over them. Working great
Would it help if you raise the bottom off of the ground a little for more airflow maybe, or is it better to have flat on the ground ?
I have a fish tank top with heavy kind of screen, I put that a couple feet away from a little space heater which kicks on and off by setting it works good.
Add a small space heater near by and set on low, this will speed things up a little bit, and will also dry the air out in the room... Fresh fruits way better than dried IMO.
That’s what I do….I have a top of an old fish tank which is screened, and put that about 2 feet from a space heater which can be set to cycle on and off, plus I live out in the desert so the air is very dry anyway takes about a week for total dry.
@@davids11131113 good to know, I'm always reading 48 hrs, so I was scared they'd rot or at least lose potency. I even split bigger ones pretty thoroughly to dry faster, which ironically causes the psilocybin to degrade by oxdizing apparently.
Very helpful in the future for me thanks a lot 😊🙏
300 comments 300 ideas. Guys. A dehydrator not really too hot ..several packs of the desiccant..its great. Store in old school Mason jar .you're confusing the newbies
My brand new dehydrator was 35 bucks 5 layers. Cracker dry in 5 hours. The heat doesn't affect potency atleast not noticably
You just don't eat em fresh wet. Fresh wet it's more potent but when you dry they lose that fresh wet potency. It's literally just that slight but that goes unless your a nob and leave the dehydrator on when your on a field trip looking for more mushrooms lol
@@Mycoholicsanon you can’t eat 12 lbs wet
Would you suggest possibly putting a filter on the fan? Just to keep dust and debris out of the air that is being pushed through the screens?
Drill .5inch holes all along the sides of the boards to allow the moist air to escape faster with better airflow.
thanks for sharing! definitely going to do this
Thank you . I am going to do mine this way.
thank you willy much love
My man always gives thorough explanations. Respect.
Great video and idea. I'm thinking, why not drill 1/4 to 1/2 inch holes around the frame to allow humid air to be pushed out? just a thought i may try..thanks willy.
So he most likely doesn’t do tbis because the whole purpose of the aluminum foil at the bottom is to catch most of those spores, with holes in the sides of the frames those spores will go out the holes rather than mainly collect at the bottom.
I made my own by putting a hot fan heater bowing hot air into a tall box with shelf’s it works perfectly hey snap when there done
This should be used in unison with damprid and paper bags after doing the fan and screen. I do it exactly this way. When done. Goes into paper bags and then desicant tub. And you switch out and replace bags as they draw ramaining moister.
Damp rid is just calcium cloride. So is Ice melt but waaaay cheaper and available in 20 lb bags for pennies on the dollar👍👍👍
can you make a video about Water Agar/ how, when & why to use it ?
thanks
Great idea, but just a suggestion…drill holes through the sides of the last tray or place on top of a table(whatever) with holes for air flow. If the air passing through the fan has nowhere to go, it doesn’t go. The fan blades will spin with little to no air passing(airlock).
Just use some off cuts from your 1x2 or 1x4 depending what you use. You only need a small gap so that air can pass over your fruit and not go stagnate on that bottom rack.
@@thisislargemouth5566 I was thinking the same thing. I'm surprised Willy didn't mention something that is so very obvious.
No shade on Willy for leaving a few things for US to figure out... :)
I suppose to not let spores fly out?
The wood doesn't stack perfectly. The gaps between the wood is fine.
I put on top of 2 2x4's for flow.
If I wanted more depth for bigger fruits would it be ok if I got wider trim? Would that work ok so I don’t have to cut them up?
Do spores blow around the whole room you do this in? Or do they just blow down?
Not using heat means it takes longer to dry which means you're losing more to oxidation. Just don't go crazy with the heat, 105 is the top end.
This is very debatable. I think oxidation loss is so minimal over a 2-3 day period. I've kept fruit in a sandwich bag for several days before I took tissue samples and they were still very much active after drying and that was probably 5 days between putting them in the bag fresh and pulling them from the dryer crispy.
There is no evidence for anything that you said.
Very nice video! Will this work for gourmet mushrooms as well?
Is it ok to cut them up to dehydrated ? Also is it ok to just dry them even if they have broken veil spores on them?
I have a question! Would it be better to dehydrate with this set up outside the house??
box and blower on a 40 buck dehydrator make racks i do it for 24 hours low n slow helps bag appeal dried lbs like that
Honestly the debate could be settled really quickly with a potency test. you dry half a flush with a dehydrator and the other half you air dry. and then test a couple specimen from each and see which has the higher or same potency. with a chemical test of course.
Amazing - quick question - once "cracker dry" - and in a Mason Jar - do you put them in the freezer or fridge for long-term storage? Thanks!
I think just a cool dark place like where you would keep wine.... not a fridge or freezer.... too cold degrades potency.
Top notch videos Wiily.................
Not really, it's a couple minutes of info with a lot of rambling
Hey man could you possibly do a pan cyan video. From innoculation to fruiting. Would be awesome, thanks!!!
@@runningbear6391 what's it called? I can't find it.
I'm a noobie, so a noobie question. I have a high/low switch on my fan. Which setting should I use?
So turns out the fans they make this size have rounded corners and so there’s a little space at the corner.... my smaller snacks flew right out of the corner hole randomly a couple hours into drying (guess they were light enough to fly right out after losing moisture)
This design is very flawed although very innovative and creative!
One way to avoid this problem would be to have an empty tray at the top just to have something blocking the entire surface including corners on the top layer so that nothing can fly out of the top rack corner.
This would probably also be avoided if only big/ heavy fruits were put in the top rack so that they couldn’t be blown around.
I’d say for anyone just growing enough food for your family dinner or a light snack, probably just stick to the cheapest dehydrator on amazon unless you’re really handy with a drill and have all the tools necessary at the ready.
Really inventive though, and probably a better option when it comes to commercial scales!
Works good for drying grains
Did the Halloween event go down? or rescheduled .... I was in Vegas and it was basically shut down for events.
Great job Willy thanks for the the video it's a great idea I made the same thing to dry out my weed works great for that application as well thanks Willy keep up the good work Sir
Better way to dry weed is let it hang til it’s pretty much almost all the way dry then cure it in mason jars for about 2 weeks. It transforms your herb into something so phenomenally better than air curing or quick drying could. It becomes so crystallized and fluffy and decadent man just try it with a small amount if u don’t believe me
@@VeshThrob I built the rack for the buds that I run through my trimmer so you can't hang them and I use food grade buckets to finish curing I grow to much I would need hundreds of jars.
Thank you Willy Philly here been needing this tek. TTF everyone I highly recommend you become a part of this group support the cause.
I really dig the respirator where did you get it?
Getting back in to this hobbies need to score some more spores b+ pink buffalo.and gt and suggestions on where to go
Google
Hey willy are the spores collected at the bottom worth saving for a rainy day or inoculating later on?
Yeah... my thoughts exactly. I would put the collection paper outside under a pile of manure and straw, after having collected plenty of spore prints (done the proper way).
And, the "rainy days" will come on their own timetable, and who knows, you may get a "wild surprise".
Way back in the 70s we rarely dried our shrooms, we ate them wet and sold them wet. No one wanted dried out shrooms because they weren't as potent. Funny how things change.
Things changed a bit in 52 years - *ha-ha*
I just made a cardboard one. Works good
Do you run the fan on low, medium, or high?
does it works in cities with a lot of humidity?
If you could do a video on DIY freeze dryer that would be incredible
Ok I made this thing and just set it up. I got 3 tiers going got the fan on low. My question is if I do end up doing 20 tiers I should have it on high I’m assuming.
@@XEULAS I’ve only been using 4 tears my yields haven’t got gigantic yet. one’s been working fine but it does take two days to get them cracker dry.I harvested some large PE blobs in those took literally five days before they were dry I’m thinking when you have 22 years three but if not so many lower setting I’m just worried it could link below the crap out of them or something I don’t know maybe I’m overthinking it
Any suggestion on how to speed up drying monster sized mushrooms? 5 days in and they're just about ready
That sounds like a crazy expensive electric bill
I suppose this only works if there is low humidity in the air. Where I live the humidity is high so no matter how much I try to dehydrate my fruits without heat they always stay soft..
I have this same issue I’ll usually finish them in an actual dehydrator
Willy where can I get that hoodie? I see some similar but I like yours!
dehydrators do not use very much heat at all. if you slow the fan down with a potentiometer you could hang a 60 watt light bulb in the intake side of the fan and that would provide enough heat to dehydrate food. For fungi i wouldn't add heat.
Do freeze dryers degrade the fruits?
Why no desiccant? I've always...heard...of people using damp rid or some other desiccant, even without air flow I've...heard...that it works. And it's what people have been using for years. By the way, the method you show here is just an oast that hop farmers use to delicately dry the hops without loss of terpenes. And I suppose other herbs that have fragrant terpenes one wouldn't want to lose.
Would silicone dioxide packs not work?
add an extra tray at 45 degrees on the bottom so the air can escape and they'll dry much faster
Great idea
I just put feet in the bottom of one if the layers
No because that would let the spores out to go everywhere. That’s why you use a liner. I thought the same thing though at first
awesome info!
You should add a space at the bottom to let the air flows otherwise the air is blocked and your fan doesn't work as it should
I put some feet on one of the layers with leftover wood
yeah i was thinking maybe screw in some short screws part way on the bottom rack
Wait can you explain? Cause I've been using this for a bunch of days and my damn mushrooms are taking days to get even close to cracker dry
@@endyrodriguez4854 the air can get in but can't get out so there is no air flow. Just add a 1" gap on the bottom.
@@theanalymous should I just roll up some aluminum balls and out it on all 4 corners? I think that may work
Could you use the spores that fell be use and save
Nice one brother, 5 tiers built at 12x12 inch cuz ima only do 2 unicorns at a time…..
Jedi mind fu*ks started harvesting today (my 1st ever grow man) I’m like a new daddy birthing a bunch of kids haha PLUR
What humidity is your system able to achieve.
Thanks
This video could have been 13 minutes shorter
Mush Luv to the Trip Team Family.
HOW DID YOU COMMENT THIS BEFORE THE VIDEO CAME OUT!?!?!!?
this was 2 days ago but isn't it 31st right now tho?
@@larrbear3017 Now ya got me trippin' how did he do that?
@@Mungo658 We are in the Twilight zone bruh
@@thesmokingrooster8791 damn i haven't been there in a while but fruiting towards it yo
Willy! Thoughts on blue honey? I've been experimenting with preserving this way.
I saw something on this the other day, have you tried it yet?
What about using the oven on a fan only (no heat) setting? 🤔
I wish we got an answer to this one, did you try it?
TripTeam!
Thanks Willy, for all your work.
Why not freeze them for a day or two and then put them in a vacuum chamber??? No heat involved.
How do you know when they are completely dry
I have bought 5 separate dehydrators from thrift stores for less than $5 each
I considered doing that but I realized If I add on the time it takes i'm still paying $30+ per.
They have heaters though yes?
@@uhohspaghettios9966 mine goes as low as 90 degrees Fahrenheit, I think.
@@BlueberryBumblebees even 90 degrees will degrade and change the alkaloid composition
@@lucidx2 lies
Greath info🤜🏻✨🤛🏻
I've always used a cheap food dehydrator and then damp rid in a sealed container to finish.
@Echoverse Real Estate Agent I haven't noticed any difference in potency. In fact I find hot tea just as potent if not more than just eating them. I feel that set and setting have more influence on how strong they are.
Damp rid is calcium cloride. Ice melt...
I posted above how i use ice melt instead of damp rid. Same exact thing, but waaay cheaper.👍👍👍
@@seanschriver1543 either way you can bake it and reuse it. Thanks for the heads up.
@@andrewpeacock5751 i save the liquified salt and use it to pretreat my driveway in the winter when ice or snow is expected👍