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General Information:
Identification: Hericium erinaceus
Classification: Gourmet, Edible
Cultivation Difficulty: Easy (the easiest!)
Substrates: Hardwood Pellets / Sawdust, Straw, Spawn Bags
Ideal Fruiting Temperature: 65°F to 75°F
A choice edible and highly praised medicinal supplement, the Lions Mane mushroom is one of our most popular liquid cultures. We frequently sell out, so get it while it's in stock! This mushroom is worth getting your hands on. It’s a relatively low-maintenance species that needs mild humidity and some fresh air to produce flavorful, medicinal, white-toothed mushroom pom poms.
Pan-fried Lions Mane from Jen Around the World
You can buy Lion's Mane Supplements online, however many of them are made from the spent mycelium, not the fruiting body, of the Lions Mane species. It's been discovered that the fruiting body contains almost 30 times the concentration of the sought-after neurostimulating compounds than the mycelium.
By cultivating your own Lions Mane, you can dehydrate, grind, and dose your own supplements without wondering if you were scammed with dried Lion's Mane mycelium, instead of fruiting bodies.
Cultivation Information:
Lion's Mane Mushrooms are unique, slightly slower-colonizing fungi.
Lion’s Mane mycelium can appear very fine, sometimes invisible to the human eye. Often mistaken for contamination, it can be difficult to know when it is fully colonized and ready for the fruiting stage. Lion’s Mane mycelium is easy to mistake for cobweb mold when you first grow it. The grain spawn should start to become slightly lighter in color, with the fungi itself remaining largely transparent.
Unlike Oyster mushrooms, Lion's Mane need less fresh air to develop properly. That doesn't mean they will grow properly without fresh air; it just means you can get away with providing less.
After harvest, you can expect to see more mushrooms push through within 7-14 days. You will want to keep growing conditions rather constant throughout these crop cycles, as you may easily see 3 to 4 before the block is “spent”.
Each Liquid Culture Syringe purchased includes:
One laboratory-grade 10mL Liquid Culture syringe filled with live Lion's Mane mycelium in sterilized solution.
One sterile 16 gauge needle per syringe.
Storing Liquid Cultures:
Store liquid cultures inside of a Ziploc bag in a clean fridge until later use. Liquid cultures can be stored for up to 6 months in this state or longer.