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Things you need:
Foil
Exacto knife
Scissors
Glovebox (or tote with lid if you have a flow hood)
Isoproyl Alcohol
Common Sense
There are many ways to print a mushroom, this is just one of the easiest for the beginner. In this tek, I did not use a glovebox, because I have a flow hood. If you do not have a flow hood, you will need to follow all these steps INSIDE of your glovebox.
First to print a mushroom, with this tek, you must make your print packages with foil.
Start by laying out a sheet of foil and cutting some large rectangles out of it. You will be folding these in half, and printing on one half, then folding the other half over the print to seal it up, so make sure your rectangles are large enough to do that for your spore print.
Next fold your rectangles in half.
Next thing to do is, if you have a glove box, wipe the glove box out with Isopropyl alcohol, very well, to sanitize it. Quickly wipe your foil rectangles and place them against the walls of your glovebox so that one side half is on the bottom of it, and one half is leaning against the side of the glovebox.
Wipe all of your tools with alcohol, and put all of your tools inside the glove box, with your bottle of alcohol. Place your mushroom(s) you plan to print in there as well, and seal up the glovebox.
Now you will push the exacto knife into the cap, and turn the mushroom upside down, then cut the stipe off, with your scissors, as close to the cap as humanly possible.
Set the cap on the foil, with it still attatched to the knife.
Put the lid on your glovebox/tote and let the spore print sit for 24-48 hours. The longer the darker the print will be.
After the time goes by that it should set, remove the cap from the foil (inside your glove box or under your flow hood).
Fold the foil over, then fold the three open edges over 2-3 times to seal it up.
And there you have it, how to make a spore print.
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