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Recommended Travel Friendly Macro Tripod

Started 5 months ago | Questions thread
Beatsy
Beatsy Senior Member • Posts: 1,355
Re: Shooting upside down? Use an "L" bracket.

maggiemole wrote:

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A very interesting thought, Beatsy, which had never occurred to me. I do have a small corner of the garden which has lots of shade and gets quite damp. If I can work out a way to make sure the mushrooms don't spread everywhere, I'll give it a go. Thanks very much!

If your damp corner was suitable for any (native) fungi, they'd already be growing there.

Fungi are surprisingly sensitive to environmental conditions. Different species grow in different places because they have different needs. Temperature, moisture, pH, substrate etc, all determine which species will thrive. You'll have to control their environment to get good results so I envisage growing in closed, vivarium-like conditions. Or something. Research needed there.

But your current trips out to photograph them are ideal opportunity to collect "seeds" and make notes on the conditions they seem to like etc. A single cap placed on paper will drop thousands of spores to inoculate a substrate with.

Definitely a long term thing with a lot of learning and experimenting needed to get any results at all. But at least you'd be slowly putting another option in place for the future, should your ability to get out and snap in the wild deteriorate.

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