Hey welcome back mate!
Hope ya doin well.
I think it's something we all do, dissappear while life happens.
Tbf I probably see myself still using this forum when I'm old and grey.
Better to take a small sample of mycelium from the patch or at the base of a fruit, and use it to inoculate some substrate, then spawn that to a new area.
Funghi-man has generously thrown up a cpl of prints for grabs (for microscopy etc) in the thread above, they're a lil older but that's cool, one is from 2018 so could still be microscopically viable, and the other is from 2013, might not be microscopically viable but still great to look at!
Welcome back mate.
Think I remember you.
I recently returned also after a bit of a hiatus. Definitely a much quieter community than it once was, which is a shame.
Will be doing some giveaways every now n again, in hope to further build back some community