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11-11-2009, 07:10 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Meols, Wirral
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| | | Spore printing
Does anyone else spore print like this? I bought a box of shiny white kitchen tiles and drilled holes of various sizes in them, some more than an inch diameter for boletuses and other monsters. Having the stipe in water gives a nice thick spore print which sometimes helps in identification by spore colour. |
11-11-2009, 07:17 PM
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| | | Re: Spore printing
Now be honest, this is a marketing exercise isn't it. You are so proud of your tiles, you are hoping to sell them to Wabbers. 
Yes, very nice, and I hope you get very nice spore prints.
Neil. 
PS. A piece of ordinary white cardboard will work just as well - shhhh ! |
11-11-2009, 07:21 PM
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| | | Re: Spore printing
If I was selling the tiles to Wabbers I'd have to charge quite a bit. Just try making a one and a half inch hole in a 3mm tile. It takes ages and more often that not the tile shatters at the last moment |
11-11-2009, 07:37 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Gloucester
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| | | Re: Spore printing
Ah - you'll have shares in B&Q then!
It was enough bother drilling tiles when we re-vamped the bathroom - think I'll go with the cardboard! 
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11-11-2009, 07:42 PM
|  | Knight of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
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| | | Re: Spore printing
Nice, but don't hang anything on that hook on the tile .... it will fall off 
John |
11-11-2009, 07:44 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: York
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| | | Re: Spore printing
I use a glass microscope slide 
Mal |
11-11-2009, 08:34 PM
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| | | Re: Spore printing
I'm just curious - do you have any 'after' photographs of the 'prints'? If you had a slightly sticky surface would that 'fix' it for photographing?
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11-11-2009, 09:19 PM
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| | | Re: Spore printing
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Originally Posted by FungiJohn  Nice, but don't hang anything on that hook on the tile .... it will fall off
John | Nice one John! I missed that first time! Now, being a nosey type I want to know - Treecreeper, pray do tell why your hooks are that way up? 
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11-11-2009, 09:25 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Scotland/Spain
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| | | Re: Spore printing
Would a white laminate board not have did the job cheaper and have been easier to drill
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11-11-2009, 09:39 PM
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| | | Re: Spore printing
When I am feeling organised, which is less often these days. I cut up paper the exact size to fit the bottom of my collecting boxes. So when I make a collection I remove one cap and place it of the paper, and hey presto when I arrive home I do not have to wait for the spore print.
I did once try cutting holes in card to keep stipes in water, but I lost the patience to keep it up and I now put the cap on paper or a glass slide in an enclosed box with some moist grass or leaves and this seems to work OK.
Peter
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