ambigu said:

Or make more pictures where the mycelium is not out of focus, like in the second one. You can still focus with these opaque containers, although the lower contrast might confuse the auto focus. Fiet, if you use your phone, it might help to tap with your finger on the screen where there is only mycelium, to tell your phone what to focus on.

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callmehippie said:

you can try turn off the auto focus as wll. This definitely will help a lot when trying to take pictures under a  transparent petri lid with reflections..


Kat(Nektar61) use to talk about this.  I feel like some point she made a little write up on taking better pictures of petris with a cell phone.

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B Traven said:

Eh.

There's not really any 100% reliable way around this issue, in my view.

The problem with fake return addresses or no return address is that they can cause a letter or parcel to be flagged. Even sending something with a name that's not connected to that address can sometimes cause delivery problems.

Obviously, a P.O. Box involves making yourself even more visible. Plus, you gotta go get stuff out of the P.O. Box. At a government building.

If one is particularly concerned, then I think the best way forward is to use real names and addresses where there's no illegal activity happening. Doesn't raise any flags, and if you're just mailing prints and whatnot, there's nothing illegal happening anyway. That does, of course, require having friends you trust who'd be willing to help you out.

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B Traven said:

Sure, I mean, someone mailed me a qp of weed a few years ago and put "Pablo Escobar" on the return address. (I wasn't particularly happy with that lol)

I had someone from etsy mail me some bulky 3-D-printed parts in a regular envelope with a single stamp. It just turned up in my mailbox with a notice of extra postage due. Which was, of course, never collected.

The simple reality is that it's very unlikely to run into any problems at all, regardless of how you approach things. I guess my priority is making sure stuff gets where it's going.

But again, my point was just that there isn't one neat fool-proof solution to this issue. Everything's a trade-off.

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ambigu said:

callmehippie said:

you can try turn off the auto focus as wll. This definitely will help a lot when trying to take pictures under a  transparent petri lid with reflections..


Kat(Nektar61) use to talk about this.  I feel like some point she made a little write up on taking better pictures of petris with a cell phone.

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Manual focus would indeed be much easier, but how do you do that on a phone?

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Belome said:

what else might i need?

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Belome said:

doing some shopping today and thought i'd grab the rest of what i'd need to get going with cultivation.

i currently have a set of petri dishes, a pressure cooker, and a couple packets of agar-agar powder

today i will be purchasing a clear plastic tub to turn into a still air box, a cheap plastic shower curtain to cover the arm holes of the SAB, and a medical scalpel

what else might i need?

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shroom_fae said:

Is there a more comprehensive Tek for mail anonymity? From what I read in the Marketplace a single PO box or mail forwarding service seems to suffice, I am not knowledgeable in this area, but I would be willing to bet none of those options would be willing to protect my identity/final hop in the event of a law enforcement request, let alone a subpoena.

Even if it's offsite, more information would be very helpful!

Thank you all in advance!

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