Now wait a good 24 hours and voila! It’s good if you cover your mushrooms with a box or a bowl or something similar while you’re waiting for your spores to drop or you’ll probably end up with a blurry print just from random drafts of air. The spores themselves, […]
Spore Prints
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Here’s a bit of a before and after for you. Right after you get back from picking your fresh mushrooms, just carefully cut the stem off as close to the cap as possible without shaking any of the spores in the cap loose. Then arrange them on your paper that […]
Doesn’t this just remind you of a mushroom fairy ring that I was able to somehow magically pick all the mushrooms from and then rearrange them in time for them to drop all their lovely spores for me? Well that’s kind of the way it happened. Imagination is a good […]
Isn’t this beautiful? I’m still not sure how I got so lucky. This spore print was developed from an oyster mushroom that I actually grew at home! Yes, you too can grow your own mushrooms. Once it got big enough I carefully detached it from its growing medium and cut […]