Purchase a Golden Teacher sporeprint for high-quality mycelium and paddock culture. Perfect for mycologists and hobbyists. A mushroom spore print is a print of the spores of a mushroom, obtained by dropping the spores from the cap of the mushroom onto a suitable surface. Sporeprints are often used by mycologists and hobbyists to identify mushrooms, collect spores for microscopic examination, or grow new mushrooms. Here is a step-by-step explanation of how a sporeprint is created and used

How to make a mushroom spore syringe with a Sporeprint

• Go clean and sterilize everything you use! Carefully open the spore print and use a sterile knife to scrape some of the spores into a sterile shot glass. A knife tip is sufficient for a 10cc syringe.
• Do not use too much sterile water, a few drops is enough.
• Use the needle of the syringe to mix the spores with a few drops of sterile water.
• If you look closely, you can see that the tracks are falling apart. Continue until the mushroom spores are pretty much dissolved in the water.
• Suck the water with the spores into the needle and squeeze it again.
• Repeat this process a few times. As a result, the spores will mix well in the water.
• Suck this one more time and the spore syringe is now finished and ready to use.

Substrate for the Golden Teacher spores

There are several ways to compose a substrate. These spores do well on a substrate of brown rice flour, PF Tek, rye and on enriched soil and manure.

Saving your Sporeprint

Spore-prints of mushrooms are made on sterile film. You can store these just fine in sterile plastic bag with closure in a dry, clean, dark and cool place.