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Asante
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Urgent request to all experienced mushroom hunters

#5120034 - 12/29/05 06:43 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

Shroomhunters worldwide, your help is urgently needed!

*steps on soapbox*

There are two organisations that sprang off of a shroomerite's initiative, called the Free Spore Rings.

FSRC -- Free Spore Ring Canada
FSRE -- Free Spore Ring Europe

These two orgs supply spores on a non-profit basis to amateur researchers worldwide at a cost thats marginally more than the postage thats on their return envelope.

Spores are in short supply. They rely on the generosity of a few benefactors, mostly hunters and growers, to supply them with free spores to distribute.

This is where you come in.

Next time you are hunting for shrooms, and have correctly ID'd some, please separate the stems from the caps, then lay the caps gills down on a clean white sheets of printer paper (many caps per sheet if you have a whole bunch of caps to print and want to save postage) which will deposit sporeprints on those sheets of paper.

Next you take the sheets of paper and write on them the following information:

SPECIES
NEAREST BIG CITY
COUNTRY
NICKNAME OF COLLECTOR (for instance your shroomery nickname)

an example would be:

Panaeolus subbalteatus
Detroit, USA, "Psilosaurus"

Then you fold the sheets, put them in two envelopes and send half of the spores to

FSRCanada
Box 23045
Westgate Postal Outlet
Cambridge, Ontario
N1S 4Z6 Canada

And the other half of the prints to

FSRE
Postbus 98
6600 AB Wijchen
Holland

Remember to put on enough postage and make sure no mushroom material other than the sporeprints is in the letter.

If you want to make sporeprints sterilely then that is welcomed even more enthusiastically by the Free Spore Rings, TEKs are available on their websites and in the mushroom cultivation forums of the Shroomery.

But the bottom line is prints, prints, prints :evil:

These people do some great nonprofit volunteer work for us mushroom people, so why not let many people all over the world share in the bounty of your mushroom hunt through the prints you took no effort or expense to collect anyway.

Please help them out :heart:

Why is this so important?
First of all it's for the cause! These people are nonprofit volunteers spreading spores. Now anyone with a love for magic mushrooms ought to admire that. Their spores are in short supply as they rely on generocity of growers and hunters and, well, supply doesnt always meet demand. Every sporeprint you donate will find its way to an interested party. The spores of your hunt can really make the difference all over the world! This is especially true if you hunt for non-cubensis species, all of which are low on stock most of the time.

Another point is even bigger. You are field-collecting mushrooms. By doing that you are collecting varieties (and shroom genetics) which are not present in the mushroom cultures in use today. Your find may look ordinary but might have characteristics which make it superior to strains we already know! Your Cyanescens may survive a light frost better than others, your Gymnopilus spectabilis might physically attack any kind of wood it finds and your cubensis may just be a colonizer beyond anything known.

It costs you nothing to let many people all over the world share in the bounty of your hunt, through the printing of your spores which are probably useless to you anyway.

Print - ID the sheets - Shove prints in an envelope - Stamp & Send

Make the difference for the mushroom!

Edited by Asante (12/29/05 07:05 PM)

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