My mushroom kit finally quit mushing. I think I paid about a dollar a mushroom, 😂 but it was fun.

@poemblaze Did you take spore prints?

@AskTheDevil Inking them would make them taste bad. 😁

@poemblaze Snrk!

What kind of mushrooms? A lot of mushrooms, you can take a spore print, and grow more from it.

Some mushrooms from kits are ones that require a special relationship with a certain kind of tree, so you basically get a log, and when it runs out, it runs out.

But others, you can just collect a spore print, mix it with sterilized water, and inoculate more grow media.

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( I 🖤 mushrooms )

@poemblaze Feel free to hear me gushing about it like a 10-year old talking about an action figure, and also feel free to go "Yes pumpkin, you're so smart! Mushrooms _do_ come from spores!" if I was being pedantic.

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@AskTheDevil It’s fine. Why is it called a spore *print*?

@poemblaze They look sort of like a mushroom fingerprint!

You just lay the cap on a piece of paper or foil, right after the veil has separated, and leave it for a day or so. There will be fine dark lines when it drops the spores.

I have also left the spore prints on the bottom of a jar I intend to make the spore solution in, if I'm going to use them right away.

@AskTheDevil Thank you. Assume I know nothing and you won’t be far wrong.