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Mushroom cultivation => Cultivation => Topic started by: drum4jah420 on March 31, 2008, 12:34:56 AM

Title: noob questions about making spore prints
Post by: drum4jah420 on March 31, 2008, 12:34:56 AM
i have an issue here ladies and gentlemen. i live in georgia and most legit companys dont mail here. i was wondering can you get spores from dried mushrooms. if anyone can help me with this please let me know. any advice is appreciated.
Title: Re: noob questions about making spore prints
Post by: anno on March 31, 2008, 04:54:42 AM
Difficult. You could inject sterile water with a syringe between the gills of the dry mushrooms and suck it up again in the syringe and  get some spores this way. Chances are you will also get some contaminants along too.

A different approach which definitely works is to place a gill on agar, but this is an advanced procedure, see www.shroomery.org/agar