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.Spore prints are just a collection of spores from a mature mushroom fruit body. They are usually collected on paper by just placing the mushroom spore-side down for a few days whilst the spores are dropping.
To cultivate from spores however, is a much more tricky and uncertain process than from spawn. You have to germinate the spores, usually in sterilised petri dishes, and then grow them up a couple of generations onto sterilised grain. By doing so, you will be growing lots of different variants of that strain, some better performing than others, and often you won’t know the traits until you have gone through the whole growing process. It’s an interesting process to learn, but very time-consuming and requires learning a whole extra process and equipment.
When you buy spawn, you are buying it at the end of the process I’ve just described and you are buying a variant of the strain which is known to have good qualities.
Although I couldn’t easily find anywhere in Australia selling the Phoenix Oyster, the strain in the link below looks very similar to it, so could be worth contacting them to ask a bit more about it?
http://www.aussimushroomsupplies.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=101_127&product_id=237
