I grow my lion’s mane with only a pseudo pasteurisation: 1200g of dry substrate (hard wood pellets with ~20% alfalfa pellets as supplementation + tea spoon of gypsum) + 1700ml of boiling water directly in the unicorn filter bag. Seal and leave it to pasteurize under a blanket for about 1h30. Let cool down and inoculate with about 300g grain spawn using a large funnel and a slit made in the bag to pour the grain into the bag. Seal the slit with tape-no sterile airflow needed. Works great. No real contamination issues. Good yields!
@@themyceliumnetwork it’s call pseudo pasteurization because you don’t maintain your substrate in boiling water for the whole time of the process, so the temperature remains lower than the classic pasteurization technique. Nonetheless it is efficient and rarely lead to contamination, with fast colonization species such as Lion’s mane, but also slower ones. I use this technique for all species I grow so far. One would think the hotter the pasteurization process the better in terms of repelling contamination, yet it’s more complicated than that. If you kill nearly all the germs with an advanced pasteurization or a sterilization, you will create a void of life in your substrate that is very attractive to any remaining contaminant, so if you’re not extra sterile in your technique to add the mycelium, you will get contamination. With lower pasteurization, you preserve certain micro organisms in your substrate that are not problematic in terms of contamination when you introduce the mycelium. There will be some balance between these microorganisms and your mycelium which will protect your substrate from the real bad guys. That’s about it.
I tried the same method with strawpellets and alfalfa for oysters, hardwoodpellets and alfalfa for enoki, pioppino and shiitake. Oysters no contamination problems, shiitake 2 Bags out of 45 in Icubation tthat had mold. I do prepare the substrate in a bigger bin first, let it cool overnight and fill and inoculate the bags the next morning. Just a mask, and gloves, no sterile air flow. Works for me. Greetings from Austria. P.S. I currently experiment with organic fertilizer pellets made from harvest waste products as a supplementation instead of the alfalfa pellets, let's see how this works out. No contamination in the first 30 bags, curious to find out the yield in the next weeks. 😁
I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with cptsd, spent my whole life fighting cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, BPD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Yes he's Dr.alishrooms. My daughter did straight shrooms in few days. Made her whole! after words, no more addictions, pains, ptsd and depression. It helped us.
Saw people talking about..checked him out, I must say he's good at what he does. My son is clean 1 year now. Good luck. just micro dose and you won't trip. Mushrooms helped my son get off opioid.
I bought some growing kits, spore prints, lion’s mane spawns, liquid culture and psychedelic products from an online supplier and they are affordable and discreetly delivered
Great video with lots of good tips. I tried several ways to grow Lion's mane in a non standard way, with a great rate of failure. I also sterilise my substrate and grains in a baby bottle steriliser in the microwave with a very high success rate. Best thing is, only takes 30 mins. This of course is only for home use.
I recently started with mushrooms, starting with lion's mane. Fell in love with it immediately, despite an early failure (or disappointing success as it did produce a tiny result). Already ordered LC and equipment. Though it is bold as a novice to experiment, I am going to grow out spawn on grain, then try to grow lion's mane on oak and bamboo... Using a bucket method, though I am questioning that choice from some of the videos I've seen. Still, I'll give it go and see how well it works.. Thanks for the video, I've saved it as a guide as I start my own process...
I started growing mushrooms day 1 from LC and enjoyed the process. I've done the bucket thing on sterilized straw for oysters, I found the yields were less than grow bags with HWSD but it does work.
@@stormagorist6129 don't take my experience as gospel by any means. I didn't have my environmental factors tuned in at that stage in my experimenting. I did however decide that either way straw was too much of a mess. It very well may produce much more than bags
@@Spe3D3m0n I appreciate knowing what others have been through and done regardless. I don't have access to straw so I am using what I have on property. Experiments start this weekend so I should know in a few months whether this will work or not.. Might have to get bags and some pellets just to try that way also, but that is much more expensive so I'd prefer to use the oak and bamboo..
I’ve been successfully inoculating my own lions mane by pasturing the substrate. I have found an affordable spawn supplier that allows me to do so. I use 3 cups spawn for a 12 pound block.
That rounds up at about the ~30% spawn rate mentioned in the video, interesting and adds even more certainty to this method if anyone wants or has to go non-sterile!
I just learned so much and idk anything at all about mushroom growing. So this is very good. Might try now. I need my own herb cabinet. I’m creating something beautiful here soon.
Thanks guys. Bought a kit of LM and it's growing beautifully. I had so many questions and you have covered nearly all. Great video. Nothing like an excited Australian. :)
mycelium is triggered to fruit(make mushrooms) when it runs low/out of food. Fruiting is it reproducing because it is sensing death soon. You can break up one batch of mycelium after harvest and spread it into a few more batches. A lot of growers do this. Some just cultivate cultures and store them so they can make what they want, when they want.
Mushrooms grow if they have nutrients. In other words, break up the block, mix it with new substrate, let it colonize, then keep building up. It's not hard to do if you know what you're doing. Keep in mind, that is exponential growth.
Just ordered a bag of mycelium in subtrate that I can harvest soon, and 300 mycelium plugs to put in some birch trunks that ill cut down this autumn! Cant wait for them to grow :D Thanks for the info
Wow that was very interesting! Only a couple days ago I had lions mane for lunch and it was delicious. Unfortunately, these mushrooms are too exotic to get, and the price of over 60€ per kg is just too much. Since I had another mushroom colony before I thought I would give it a try. This video gives me what I was looking for. Set up, temp, humidity, light and trouble shooting. Thank you!
Thank you I just bought my first colonized block and thought the same thing, that it hadn't spawned enough. I've grown several other species and they're always fully white before fruiting. This has been great info thanks. Few more months and I'll move on to doing my own from scratch using cloning from my kits.
Great video! When you say 'hydrate sawdust pellets to 60%' does that mean adding 300 g of water to 1 kg of pellets? Can I sterilise this (in bags) in my pressure cooker just to be on the safe side?
RUclips has A LOT of garbage. Sometimes it's laborious weeding through it. In this case, they are AWESOME. This video was outstanding. I respect these guys.
Thank you so much guys for sharing your experience about all the awesome mushrooms’ world. Since I’ve watched “Fantastic Fungi” from Paul Stamets about one year ago I’ve been thrown in a new passion that I, unfortunately, must keep at domestic size. Last year I tried with lion’s mane, but I understood just now they got too much CO2 and low humidity. Nobody else like you explained this facts in such an understandable way with clear pictures. Thank you again ❤
I tried growing Lionsmane using flax seed husk and hardwood fuel pellets but think the liquid culture was a bit contaminated as only had one one lions mane and lots of what i can only describe as a lichen looking fruit from the same block and the lions mane only came out after I had to put the block into the freezer to kill off fungus nats that had found their way into the monotub
Awesome show sir I learned a lot I wanna grow them probably get one of those fruiting chambers are and I have my memory slipping a little bit due to Covid and I’m hoping this will help me a lot if not I enjoy the heck out of eating mushrooms all right thank you again sir
Our farmers market had lion’s mane mushrooms. I wanted to buy some to try a vegan dish. But, the mushrooms were more expensive than steak! I will try to grow my own.
Great informative video guy`s. I have my first Lions Mane growing at the moment. Just a suggestion but some links to any reputable and value for money uk suppliers would be a good idea, or do you produce your own substrate blocks?
We partner with a local grower who supplies our substrate block - he was one of our course members! Drop us a line at hello@grocycle.com if you're interested in getting hold of some...!
Hi - and a great question. With limited food supply in the block (the sawdust acts as the food for the mushroom), it's best to concentrate the growth in small sections - this ensures larger, well-formed fruit bodies. If you let it fruit all over, you would get much smaller growth which would be harder to harvest. Also, with Lion's Mane, the mycelium is quite wispy, and doesn't bind the substrate together as well as, say, Shiitake or Reishi - you would find that the block would disintegrate...! You can top fruit it, so cut open the top of the bag and roll down to expose the whole of the top of the block, it would grow fine, but you would likely have smaller, less defined fruit bodies. Hope that helps!
I've only grown consumer pre-colonized kits and gotten large but very low-density fruits. Hope giving them more controlled conditions will improve my results in the future! Are any of the parameters more relevant to density than others, or do they all need to be bang on to get a result that would pass for professional? How sensitive are LM (or others) to variable conditions? I think I've erred on the side of too much fresh air and/or inconsistent/low humidity.
No such thing as too much fresh air unless it's the air drying out the environment. If you're just fruiting a single bag now and again, you can address the humidity and fresh air issue by using a humidity tent, and by placing a jar of water with an air stone in it under the tent. Put the air pump outside of the tent.
That would work well. Lion's Mane isn't as strong as say, Oyster Mushrooms, so you're more likely to get competing organisms/contamination, but a higher % spawn rate can help with this. LM grows best with sterilised substrate, but it obviously takes more equipment/time/input etc. but with a higher spawn rate it does work with LowTech methods - just ensure your production as as squeaky clean as can be!
We do three flushes per bag - once you've taken the fruit off, make sure you cut back to the substrate or you may get bacterial infection. You can then fruit from the same slit, or refold the bag and cut a new slit - just make sure it stays hydrated!
I finished a couple of cycles growing from a "kit in a box" & it worked well. Question: Can I transfer some of the inner portion of the block, that has active mycelium, into sterile substrate in order to inoculate it? Thank you for sharing all of your professional information. Has there been any success in cultivating Chanterelle mushrooms? Cheers from Seattle!
Hi there, you can, but your working the mycelium hard and it will weaken a little for each time you do this, and you increase the risk of contamination too - but yes, it is possible, and worth you giving it a try...
This may be a stupid question ( I haven't grown my own mushrooms so don't come for me). Couldn't you mix the leftover substrate from the older mushroom grow bags into the new substrate to colonize the next bag? With newly available nutrients, would the mycelium network continue to grow? Is it really necessary to use agar plates?
You can in theory - although it can weaken the mix, and can leave you open to introducing contaminants... if you do try it, and it's always worth experimenting, let us know how you get on!! :-)
Hi! Thanks for watching!! If they are proper mushroom cultivation bags (Unicorn Bags or similar) you'll be okay - just make sure it doesn't run dry or accidentally set far too high, or yes, they will melt, but if they settings are correct then you should have no problem!
This may be addressed in another comment, but where did you get the growing cabinet. I have heard negative things about growing mushrooms indoors, but I live in an apartment so have no other options.
Hello! Thanks for watching... have a look here: firstbuild.com/inventions/mella/ They are an "investment", but we've found them to be very, very reliable, and watching mushrooms grow is definitely more fun that watching TV!!
Pink coloration indicate to temperature are to low. I found that brown discoloration could be attributed to both high or low humidity. But then again I'm not an expert but it is extremely frustrating when the results are not optimal.
Hi there! I live in Brazil and some people here are growing Lion's Mane mushrooms, but they’re always small. What can we do to help them grow larger, like the ones in North America?
I got your kit and started 3 weeks ago. Everywhere in the bag is white just not where the slit is. Also there is a little bit liquid at the bottom. Does it mean i messed it up or shall I wait?
Question on the heat/pink hue issue: does this affect or detract from the health benefits? Has this been studied? Same question on the CO2/coral appearance: does this affect or detract from health benefits?
We don't believe it does (pink hue) in terms of benefits per gram, but it would need a lab comparison to be sure... it may restrict growth so you'll have smaller mushrooms, so less by the fact that it's smaller... and less dense bodies will have less too using the same reasoning... we hoping to do some lab tests over the next year and will bring that to you all in a new video when we do! Thanks for watching...
Hi Brian - we'll be launching our grow kits soon, we're just testing these at the minute with some great results so keep in touch!! They're really easy to grow at home with no special equipment required!
i try to grow lions mane but i feel likek the growth is slowed down. when the spines will grow? It is almost a month and no sign of spine on mushrooms?
I'm having extreme difficulty getting the fruiting body to grow more than a tiny amount per day. Fruiting begins no problem, but then it takes like a full month to grow into a size that's worth harvesting. Could this be temperature related? I live in FL and the AC is set at 72F nearly all the time. Humidity is set to fluctuate between 85%-90% CO2 fluctuates between 600-1000ppm
Strange one, your parameters seem about right. We recommend 59-75°F, 500-1000 PPM of CO2 and 85-90% RH. What light levels are you using? The only time we had smaller and slow growth was when our light levels were too low and had pools of darker areas in the fruiting room. We added more, and consistent light to the fruiting room and it helped so much. We use light levels of 500-1000 Lux... you can get decent light meter apps for smart phones now, so suggest you grab one of those and tale some readings all around your fruiting room. I think from memory we were at about 150-250 Lux originally, and now at about 750 and it's made all the difference! Good luck, and let us know how you get on!
I grow my lion’s mane with only a pseudo pasteurisation: 1200g of dry substrate (hard wood pellets with ~20% alfalfa pellets as supplementation + tea spoon of gypsum) + 1700ml of boiling water directly in the unicorn filter bag. Seal and leave it to pasteurize under a blanket for about 1h30. Let cool down and inoculate with about 300g grain spawn using a large funnel and a slit made in the bag to pour the grain into the bag. Seal the slit with tape-no sterile airflow needed. Works great. No real contamination issues. Good yields!
It'd be cool if you done a video of you making your substrate! 🎉
are you saying that you only get "pseudo contamination" using this method?
@@themyceliumnetwork it’s call pseudo pasteurization because you don’t maintain your substrate in boiling water for the whole time of the process, so the temperature remains lower than the classic pasteurization technique. Nonetheless it is efficient and rarely lead to contamination, with fast colonization species such as Lion’s mane, but also slower ones. I use this technique for all species I grow so far. One would think the hotter the pasteurization process the better in terms of repelling contamination, yet it’s more complicated than that. If you kill nearly all the germs with an advanced pasteurization or a sterilization, you will create a void of life in your substrate that is very attractive to any remaining contaminant, so if you’re not extra sterile in your technique to add the mycelium, you will get contamination. With lower pasteurization, you preserve certain micro organisms in your substrate that are not problematic in terms of contamination when you introduce the mycelium. There will be some balance between these microorganisms and your mycelium which will protect your substrate from the real bad guys. That’s about it.
@@MathieuGoldstein that was a huge reply about "pasteurization/sterilization" when I didn't even mention that.
I tried the same method with strawpellets and alfalfa for oysters, hardwoodpellets and alfalfa for enoki, pioppino and shiitake. Oysters no contamination problems, shiitake 2 Bags out of 45 in Icubation tthat had mold. I do prepare the substrate in a bigger bin first, let it cool overnight and fill and inoculate the bags the next morning. Just a mask, and gloves, no sterile air flow. Works for me. Greetings from Austria.
P.S. I currently experiment with organic fertilizer pellets made from harvest waste products as a supplementation instead of the alfalfa pellets, let's see how this works out. No contamination in the first 30 bags, curious to find out the yield in the next weeks. 😁
I was severely traumatized years ago as a teenage, got diagnosed with cptsd, spent my whole life fighting cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, BPD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
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Yes he's Dr.alishrooms. My daughter did straight shrooms in few days. Made her whole! after words, no more addictions, pains, ptsd and depression. It helped us.
Thanks for sharing this great information, this would help my son.
Saw people talking about..checked him out, I must say he's good at what he does. My son is clean 1 year now. Good luck. just micro dose and you won't trip. Mushrooms helped my son get off opioid.
Been watching you guys for years and have been growing oyster and lions mane since. Good stuff lads
Thank you for sharing this information in such a comprehensive way! Your channel is awesome!
This in my opinion is the best tutorial on youtube on growing lion's mane mushroom, and I've watched them all.
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Great video with lots of good tips. I tried several ways to grow Lion's mane in a non standard way, with a great rate of failure. I also sterilise my substrate and grains in a baby bottle steriliser in the microwave with a very high success rate. Best thing is, only takes 30 mins. This of course is only for home use.
I recently started with mushrooms, starting with lion's mane. Fell in love with it immediately, despite an early failure (or disappointing success as it did produce a tiny result). Already ordered LC and equipment. Though it is bold as a novice to experiment, I am going to grow out spawn on grain, then try to grow lion's mane on oak and bamboo...
Using a bucket method, though I am questioning that choice from some of the videos I've seen. Still, I'll give it go and see how well it works..
Thanks for the video, I've saved it as a guide as I start my own process...
I started growing mushrooms day 1 from LC and enjoyed the process. I've done the bucket thing on sterilized straw for oysters, I found the yields were less than grow bags with HWSD but it does work.
@@Spe3D3m0n That's interesting since everything else I've seen or heard has been that yields are significantly higher with buckets.
@@stormagorist6129 don't take my experience as gospel by any means. I didn't have my environmental factors tuned in at that stage in my experimenting. I did however decide that either way straw was too much of a mess. It very well may produce much more than bags
@@Spe3D3m0n I appreciate knowing what others have been through and done regardless. I don't have access to straw so I am using what I have on property. Experiments start this weekend so I should know in a few months whether this will work or not.. Might have to get bags and some pellets just to try that way also, but that is much more expensive so I'd prefer to use the oak and bamboo..
I’ve been successfully inoculating my own lions mane by pasturing the substrate. I have found an affordable spawn supplier that allows me to do so. I use 3 cups spawn for a 12 pound block.
That rounds up at about the ~30% spawn rate mentioned in the video, interesting and adds even more certainty to this method if anyone wants or has to go non-sterile!
That's about the ratio we found to work, so we're glad to hear you've had success to using a low-tech method!!
@@GroCycleTVWhere are the Lion's Mane Mushroom fungal spores and how to extract the fungal spore species value?
Where are the Lion's Mane Mushroom fungal spores and how to extract the fungal spore species value?
@@GroCycleTVWhere are the Lion's Mane Mushroom fungal spores and how to extract the fungal spore species value?
I just learned so much and idk anything at all about mushroom growing. So this is very good. Might try now. I need my own herb cabinet. I’m creating something beautiful here soon.
Thank you very much for your sharing, greetings to you from Algeria 🇩🇿
Thanks for this. I already bought my liquid culture and this is a great guide on what to do with it.
I just bought a kit, I'm gonna give it a go!
Thanks guys. Bought a kit of LM and it's growing beautifully. I had so many questions and you have covered nearly all. Great video. Nothing like an excited Australian. :)
Glad we've excited an Australian!! So by now you would have cooked and harvested... what did you think? We love LM!
My best friends parents gave me a block for Christmas and I was running around trying to find a way to grow these. Thank you for the information!!
Thanks for sharing this information. I'm in Brazil and I always watch your videos. Thank you very much !
Can you keep on growing them off the same batch continuously or do they have a limited lifespan?
mycelium is triggered to fruit(make mushrooms) when it runs low/out of food. Fruiting is it reproducing because it is sensing death soon. You can break up one batch of mycelium after harvest and spread it into a few more batches. A lot of growers do this. Some just cultivate cultures and store them so they can make what they want, when they want.
Mushrooms grow if they have nutrients. In other words, break up the block, mix it with new substrate, let it colonize, then keep building up. It's not hard to do if you know what you're doing. Keep in mind, that is exponential growth.
Just ordered a bag of mycelium in subtrate that I can harvest soon, and 300 mycelium plugs to put in some birch trunks that ill cut down this autumn! Cant wait for them to grow :D Thanks for the info
Amazing, I wish to grow some lions mane soon!
Thanks for sharing 😁🙏🏼
Great video!!!
Wow that was very interesting! Only a couple days ago I had lions mane for lunch and it was delicious. Unfortunately, these mushrooms are too exotic to get, and the price of over 60€ per kg is just too much. Since I had another mushroom colony before I thought I would give it a try. This video gives me what I was looking for. Set up, temp, humidity, light and trouble shooting. Thank you!
Thank you I just bought my first colonized block and thought the same thing, that it hadn't spawned enough. I've grown several other species and they're always fully white before fruiting. This has been great info thanks. Few more months and I'll move on to doing my own from scratch using cloning from my kits.
Thank you ❤ I don't have a Flow Hood but how to to do it without?
As always, so interesting and informative! I love lions mane, haven’t tried growing it myself, but just might in the future!
Love it! Thanx Fungi friends!
This has to be one of the best videos out there for growing Lions Mane! Thank you for sharing your abundant knowledge.
Wow, thanks!
Really interesting, thank you. Had no idea about this mushroom but was watching a chef cooking with them recently.
So generous of you to share such interesting information! Thank you!
Great video! When you say 'hydrate sawdust pellets to 60%' does that mean adding 300 g of water to 1 kg of pellets? Can I sterilise this (in bags) in my pressure cooker just to be on the safe side?
It's much more than that.
You add something like 1.2 L of water to 1kg of sawdust
I'm learning. Used to eat them them in vegetarian s only. TQ 🙏🏿🙏🏿
I want to learn to grow them, so informative - thank you
When is your course coming out?
RUclips has A LOT of garbage. Sometimes it's laborious weeding through it. In this case, they are AWESOME. This video was outstanding. I respect these guys.
Lovely comment - thank you, and thanks for watching!
Yes I will be trying this when I am home for good Thank you
Wow, thank you for sharing this information, I feel like I learned a lot about the growing process, much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
I am going to try and grow Lions Mane to use it for the health benefits. 😊
Thank you so much guys for sharing your experience about all the awesome mushrooms’ world. Since I’ve watched “Fantastic Fungi” from Paul Stamets about one year ago I’ve been thrown in a new passion that I, unfortunately, must keep at domestic size. Last year I tried with lion’s mane, but I understood just now they got too much CO2 and low humidity. Nobody else like you explained this facts in such an understandable way with clear pictures. Thank you again ❤
OMG I love growing them :D I did not know how much fun they are to grow :D
Great video, thank you for posting. Why can't the mushroom touch anything?
Many thanks for the insights! All the best!
Amazing video. Thank you
I tried growing Lionsmane using flax seed husk and hardwood fuel pellets but think the liquid culture was a bit contaminated as only had one one lions mane and lots of what i can only describe as a lichen looking fruit from the same block and the lions mane only came out after I had to put the block into the freezer to kill off fungus nats that had found their way into the monotub
Awesome show sir I learned a lot I wanna grow them probably get one of those fruiting chambers are and I have my memory slipping a little bit due to Covid and I’m hoping this will help me a lot if not I enjoy the heck out of eating mushrooms all right thank you again sir
Thank you guys, that was very well explained.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. ♥Could you please tell me how much you can harvest from one bag or from a square meter?
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Thank you for all the great info. I have an order coming in the mail and will try different methods and different mushrooms.
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Our farmers market had lion’s mane mushrooms. I wanted to buy some to try a vegan dish. But, the mushrooms were more expensive than steak! I will try to grow my own.
Thank you. Great video
Good information thanks
Wow, really inspiring! Great job, guys!
I just wish there was a way without so many wasteful plastic bags.
you say 20% bran in the substrate. Is that by weight or volume? Thanks
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Great informative video guy`s. I have my first Lions Mane growing at the moment. Just a suggestion but some links to any reputable and value for money uk suppliers would be a good idea, or do you produce your own substrate blocks?
We partner with a local grower who supplies our substrate block - he was one of our course members! Drop us a line at hello@grocycle.com if you're interested in getting hold of some...!
I'm trying to get brave enough to give it a try! Thx for the into.
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Fab video. I’d like to try this as a novice. Can i get the stuff needed (innoculated block, housing, and temp& humidity meter) from your site?
Thanks for sharing. This is all new to me. Silly qn - why not just remove the block out of the bag and let the mushrooms fruit out all over it?
Hi - and a great question. With limited food supply in the block (the sawdust acts as the food for the mushroom), it's best to concentrate the growth in small sections - this ensures larger, well-formed fruit bodies. If you let it fruit all over, you would get much smaller growth which would be harder to harvest. Also, with Lion's Mane, the mycelium is quite wispy, and doesn't bind the substrate together as well as, say, Shiitake or Reishi - you would find that the block would disintegrate...! You can top fruit it, so cut open the top of the bag and roll down to expose the whole of the top of the block, it would grow fine, but you would likely have smaller, less defined fruit bodies. Hope that helps!
where (and what size) bags should I buy for mixing the grain spawn + hardwood pellets + H20 + wheat bran should i buy?
I've only grown consumer pre-colonized kits and gotten large but very low-density fruits. Hope giving them more controlled conditions will improve my results in the future! Are any of the parameters more relevant to density than others, or do they all need to be bang on to get a result that would pass for professional? How sensitive are LM (or others) to variable conditions? I think I've erred on the side of too much fresh air and/or inconsistent/low humidity.
No such thing as too much fresh air unless it's the air drying out the environment. If you're just fruiting a single bag now and again, you can address the humidity and fresh air issue by using a humidity tent, and by placing a jar of water with an air stone in it under the tent. Put the air pump outside of the tent.
Awesome thanks guys 👍
Would you reccomend pastuerisation with lime for the lions mane? for example with a coffee & straw substrate.
That would work well. Lion's Mane isn't as strong as say, Oyster Mushrooms, so you're more likely to get competing organisms/contamination, but a higher % spawn rate can help with this. LM grows best with sterilised substrate, but it obviously takes more equipment/time/input etc. but with a higher spawn rate it does work with LowTech methods - just ensure your production as as squeaky clean as can be!
Thanks for the video. It's definitely encouraging as a newbie
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Great overview. Looking forward to growing some.
I just purchased a momotub Excited to get started growing oyster, lions mane and shitake
Good luck!
Bro, where are the Lion's Mane mushroom spores and how to make a spore syringe
@@GroCycleTVBro, where are the Lion's Mane mushroom spores and how to make a spore syringe
Are you able to propagate from given samples? I'm thinking some unique African Wild mushrooms
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Well done, every thing we need to know, But i think i just buy them from shop.Thank you.
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What do you do with the stuff in the bag once you’ve taken your harvest off? Thanks!
We do three flushes per bag - once you've taken the fruit off, make sure you cut back to the substrate or you may get bacterial infection. You can then fruit from the same slit, or refold the bag and cut a new slit - just make sure it stays hydrated!
I finished a couple of cycles growing from a "kit in a box" & it worked well. Question: Can I transfer some of the inner portion of the block, that has active mycelium, into sterile substrate in order to inoculate it?
Thank you for sharing all of your professional information. Has there been any success in cultivating Chanterelle mushrooms? Cheers from Seattle!
Hi there, you can, but your working the mycelium hard and it will weaken a little for each time you do this, and you increase the risk of contamination too - but yes, it is possible, and worth you giving it a try...
@@GroCycleTV Thanks for the reply. I just watched a test that you had done some years ago - appreciate your efforts!
This may be a stupid question ( I haven't grown my own mushrooms so don't come for me). Couldn't you mix the leftover substrate from the older mushroom grow bags into the new substrate to colonize the next bag? With newly available nutrients, would the mycelium network continue to grow? Is it really necessary to use agar plates?
You can in theory - although it can weaken the mix, and can leave you open to introducing contaminants... if you do try it, and it's always worth experimenting, let us know how you get on!! :-)
Las bolsas donde se hace la esterelizacion necesitan filtro? O puedo usar una bolsa completamente sellada?, ( incubacion)
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Thank you so much loved it
Thank you for sharing.
Wow this is very interesting can I grow this on my windowsill in my kitchen
Well, I'm a bit confused, if you put the substrat into the presser cooker, wont the plastic bag melt?
Hi! Thanks for watching!! If they are proper mushroom cultivation bags (Unicorn Bags or similar) you'll be okay - just make sure it doesn't run dry or accidentally set far too high, or yes, they will melt, but if they settings are correct then you should have no problem!
This may be addressed in another comment, but where did you get the growing cabinet. I have heard negative things about growing mushrooms indoors, but I live in an apartment so have no other options.
Hello! Thanks for watching... have a look here: firstbuild.com/inventions/mella/
They are an "investment", but we've found them to be very, very reliable, and watching mushrooms grow is definitely more fun that watching TV!!
i'm going to give it a go
Can I use lime pasteurisation to grow lions mane mushrooms?
Can you grow lion's mane on a straw substrate? If you're in a country that has no access to local hardwood?
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Is it possible to add LC right to the prepared sterile sawdust w/o using grain spawn?
@GeorgeBenson8 what do you mean, pharmstain?
Can you start these also by your cardboard method, I will be using coffee and wood pellets.
Pink coloration indicate to temperature are to low. I found that brown discoloration could be attributed to both high or low humidity. But then again I'm not an expert but it is extremely frustrating when the results are not optimal.
I just like how you can cook it as a meat substitute
How would you go about using shavings and dust instead of pellets ?
@Morgan_Campbell-ib7kz I have shavings in abundance just wondering on ratios/weights with wheat bran etc ?
A very informative video. Thank you.
Hi there! I live in Brazil and some people here are growing Lion's Mane mushrooms, but they’re always small. What can we do to help them grow larger, like the ones in North America?
Does anybody know the name of the FRUITING CHAMBER being seen here? And the cost it . Thanks
I got your kit and started 3 weeks ago. Everywhere in the bag is white just not where the slit is. Also there is a little bit liquid at the bottom. Does it mean i messed it up or shall I wait?
Question on the heat/pink hue issue: does this affect or detract from the health benefits? Has this been studied?
Same question on the CO2/coral appearance: does this affect or detract from health benefits?
We don't believe it does (pink hue) in terms of benefits per gram, but it would need a lab comparison to be sure... it may restrict growth so you'll have smaller mushrooms, so less by the fact that it's smaller... and less dense bodies will have less too using the same reasoning... we hoping to do some lab tests over the next year and will bring that to you all in a new video when we do! Thanks for watching...
cool, this is one of our company products, we cultured this also.
Would really like to grow some but only on a small scale to begin with
Hi Brian - we'll be launching our grow kits soon, we're just testing these at the minute with some great results so keep in touch!! They're really easy to grow at home with no special equipment required!
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Do you recommend to sterilize the substrate for Lion's maine with Hydrated Lime ? Plz guide
This is a pasteurization method, and it doesn't work for lions mane, they dont like the high Ph in the substrate this tek brings
i try to grow lions mane but i feel likek the growth is slowed down. when the spines will grow? It is almost a month and no sign of spine on mushrooms?
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I'm having extreme difficulty getting the fruiting body to grow more than a tiny amount per day. Fruiting begins no problem, but then it takes like a full month to grow into a size that's worth harvesting. Could this be temperature related? I live in FL and the AC is set at 72F nearly all the time.
Humidity is set to fluctuate between 85%-90%
CO2 fluctuates between 600-1000ppm
Strange one, your parameters seem about right. We recommend 59-75°F, 500-1000 PPM of CO2 and 85-90% RH. What light levels are you using? The only time we had smaller and slow growth was when our light levels were too low and had pools of darker areas in the fruiting room. We added more, and consistent light to the fruiting room and it helped so much. We use light levels of 500-1000 Lux... you can get decent light meter apps for smart phones now, so suggest you grab one of those and tale some readings all around your fruiting room. I think from memory we were at about 150-250 Lux originally, and now at about 750 and it's made all the difference! Good luck, and let us know how you get on!