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 7 years ago (edited) 

If you cut off the top of the mushroom, and place it face down on tinfoil.
Cover it with something, let it sit for 24 hr.

Here is a spore print done on white paper (didnt have tinfoil)

The spores for this mushroom are white, top of the picture.
I cut out apiece to see if there was a color change, but it stayed white.

Here is another example on white paper, but this mushroom has black spores.

This is an interesting technique i have never heard of. What do you use it for afterwards? :)

 7 years ago (edited) 

The spores that are left on the tinfoil can be mixed with distilled water and sucked into a syringe.

When you inject the spores and water into the right growing conditions, the mycelium grows, and you can make your own mushroom at home.

The pictures you took are of the fly agaric mushroom.

Ok, cool :) is it difficult to create the right growing conditions?

 7 years ago (edited) 

a little. I mix -2 Parts Vermiculite -1 Part Water -1 Part Brown Rice Flour in a glass jar, the pressure cook it for 60minutes. After the spores are injected, the jar must be kept in an area above 18C, but less than 30C. 100% humidity is optimal, but not required depending on mushroom type.

its called BRF tek. Or Brown rice flour technique.

But where do you plant it afterwards?

inside or outside... depends on the weather, they take about 2 months to grow to mushrooms most times (depending on type and location)