mickey_rourke said:

This is what I do.  I harvest a mushroom, and remove the cap from the stem with a clean scalpel.  I sterilize some foil and place it on a clean, hard surface that has been sprayed with Lysol.  I then place the cap on the sterilized foil and cover it with a clean bowl that has been wiped with alcohol.  Let the cap print overnight.  The next morning, spray the area with lysol and remove the cap.  Take the foil and quickly fold it up and over itself to seal.  Voila!  Clean print.

When I make a syringe, I fill up a 1/8 pint canning jar with the amount of water that I need.  The lid of this jar has been modified with a hole in the center.  I usually make this about 1/4" or so.  Cover the hole with masking tape, and cover the entire top with foil.  I then PC for 30 minutes and allow the jar to cool.  When the jar is cool, I turn the oven on low and pull out the lowest tray to use as a work surface.  Wipe the jar with alcohol and remove the foil from the jar.  Open the lid and scrape the spores from the print into the jar -- for most prints, an area the size of a match head works well for each syringe.  Be sure and do this as quickly as possible.  Put the lid back on and remove the masking tape.  Stick a syringe into the hole and fill it.  Squirt the water back in as soon as it's filled and repeat a few times.  This breaks up the spores and distributes it evenly into the water.  Fill syringes and replace cover on the needle.  Slap a piece of tape on it and record the strain and date.

Good luck! (This was my 666th post.  <img src="/forums/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />)

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