I bought a lions mane kit off Amazon, which ultimately led me to begin my mushroom growing adventure. After using a tissue sample from one of the fruits on agar, transferring to grain, making my own masters mix fruiting blocks and transferring… I finally have my very first fruit taking shape. It’s been a long road but a great learning experience. If I had any piece of advice, it’s patience. The excitement makes it hard to be patient 😄. Don’t roast me on the electrical tape, I didn’t have any rubber bands haha.

My first try. Just a premade bag. [actives]

Long time grower, new to agar, cloning, etc, here.
I became interested in doing some genetic isolations recently and started working on it.
I was having a LOT of issues with agar plates (not solidifying, cloudy, grainy, not developing mycelium properly). Kept banging my head against the wall using the same agar, of which I had bought like 500g!
Got a different brand now from the Japanese store, and voilà. All my issues solved.
Even as I was dissolving it I could see it was totally different. And it became gelatinous so quick too.
Lesson learned, don't use cheap stuff. The Telephone Brand agar is apparently very good, but I can't get it here. Hope this helps some people. 🍄

So I'm a total beginner. All I've done so far is one successful AIO bag, just inoculating with spores. I was interested in creating live cultures and while making a list of things needed for agar plates I discovered pre poured plates. They do seem like they would save a sufficient amount of time and money. But are they worth it? If so, does anyone know a reliable place to buy them?

They’re growing really slowly and I’m concerned about the brown lumps (e.g top left corner), are those contam or mutations or what?

Hi,

I recently made another post asking where to buy a kit that is not contaminated with anything! I now have a question if I can use one kit to keep growing over and over again!

Has anyone done this and is it okay to do? I can always look up youtube videos on how to exactly do it (unless anyone wants to type it out or send me the videos) but I am curious to see if it is duable.

Thank you.

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I know alot of mushrooms that come from places like China etc have contamination, I need kind of like a mom and pop place that grows their own mushrooms, extracts their own spores etc. Selling a kit would be really nice for me but I can settle for the spores as well.

If you know of any place let me know, I am currently in the USA and would like to be able to order it online.

Thanks to anyone who is able to provide me some information.

As the title says im going to the domenican republic, Aruba and a couple other islands on an 8 day cruise. Im going to be gone fore 11 days total. I've been isolating a tital wave clone for a few months now. I did 3 tranfers and then went to grain. I leave for this cruise in 33 days and my grain is almost colonized. So, when they're finished colonizing can i just pop them in the fridge for a couple weeks to promote slower growth? Until im ready to do grain transfers with them?

My plan was to pop them in the fridge for a couple weeks to slow down the growth and then do grain transfers rite before I leave, so by the time I come back they will be ready/almost ready for bulk?? Long time grower here, Ive just never had to do this but have read that it works. Any input would be appreciated. Mush Love. <3

I have a couple of Chestnut fruiting bags that are very nearly fully colonised and wasn’t sure if they needed to be cold shocked before introducing into fruiting conditions? Can any one please advise? Thanks

Recently got a lion's mane liquid culture, but was looking for some guidance on the best way to use it. This would be my second ever grow, first one was blue oysters, and I used pf tek. If I remember correctly, lion's mane doesn't do very well on BRF, and I was wondering what the best technique would be. I don't have a pressure cooker, so if I could do it without using one, that would be preferential, but I have a friend who grows mushrooms that would be more than willing to lend me hers, so if it's hard to do well without a pressure cooker, it's not too much of a hassle to get one.

They are pretty cool looking

Blobs, potato looking things, upside down mushrooms, mushrooms stacking upright on each other

I know they're hard to grow indoors and better suited for outdoor projects, but do recommendations for cyanescens equally apply to subaeruginosa and vice versa?