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About us

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We are a Husband and Wife Mycologist partnership duo! and are self proclaimed mushroom nerds! 

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We have always had a love for mushrooms and Mycology in general, and it was about 9 years ago that we decided to jump in and start to grow our own gourmet mushrooms!

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We mainly grew for ourselves but after sampling our Pink Oyster and Lions Mane gourmet mushrooms our family members demanded we grow some for them too!We soon delved further into the microscopic world of mushrooms and were amazed as we looked at spores under a microscope!

We even went foraging for wild mushrooms and got some of our first mushroom prints from that outing!  

Thus began our laboratory-based mushroom calling!

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We love everything about Mycology;

From looking at spores under a microscope, making our own spore syringes and liquid cultures from fresh mushrooms to cultivating our own gourmet mushrooms!

Everything is magic where Fungi is concerned!

Even the life cycle of a mushroom is absolutely fascinating and amazing;

From spore drop, into hyphae, into mycelium to hyphal knot to pinheads which seem to appear right before your eyes (Pinheads are basically baby mushrooms) 

and then the best part....the fruiting body (mushroom) gets bigger until its eventual “death” where the adult mushroom drops its spores and the life cycle continues once again!!

And don’t even get us started on Ancient Prototaxites!

 

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If you made it this far you might be wondering why we chose the name "Splodge Spores"? Well when we looked under the microscope at one of our exotic suspended spore syringes; As we placed a drop of the spore solution onto our microscope slide, it sort of 'splodged' out; Now this may seem like a rather strange name still, however our fur baby is also called Splodge!  

...It seemed like fate and felt right and natural that we name our small business after her!

 

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We are a dedicated duo who adore the amazing benefits that Gourmet Mushrooms can provide; plus the magical microscopic world of the different varieties and species of fungi is utterly breathtaking to look at!

 

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 Have a Blessed and Wonderful Day!

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