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Lion's Mane Mushroom Cultivation

Anonymous Tue 23 Jul 18:00:27 2019 No.10830697 View Reply Original Report

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Has anybody here tried cultivating Lion's Mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) and consume it for its cognitive-enhancing abilities? If so what were your experiences like? I bought a bunch of the powder a while back one sale, but it's running low and I don't really want to pay the insane prices for the powder sold by various health food brands. I thought about just getting some spores and trying to grow my own

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Anonymous Tue 23 Jul 2019 19:09:29 No.10830860 Report

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I've grown Shiitake that was cultivated on logs using wooden plugs infused with spores. The site I purchased from also sold wooden spawn plugs for Lions Mane.
Pretty sure they're grown the same way but lions mane takes much longer. Shiitake will start fruiting after the 1st year, but Lions Mane can take up to 3 years start fruiting. They will continue fruiting for many many years after and don't require much work or maintenance so it's a good long term source of mushroom.

If you want to grow lions mane and don't want to wait years I suggest you try sawdust cultivation.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Jul 2019 19:09:47 No.10830863 Report

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I'm interested too. From what I understand, you can buy the fungi in different stages, like spores or a ready cultivation kit that you let grow.
Some fungi can be really finicky when it comes to environmental conditions

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Anonymous Tue 23 Jul 2019 19:16:37 No.10830871 Report

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>>10830860
I hear Lion's Mane are very difficult to grow indoors. Also I've never grown any mushrooms outside before, but I always wanted to do with Shiitake and just never got around to it. I'll look into the sawdust method, thanks.

>>10830863
Oh yeah, I never thought of that. Ideally though, I'd want to make it where I could just keep growing them from that initial batch, but Lion's Mane are kind of a peculiar shape, I wouldn't think you'd be able to get spore print from them as easily as you could with a mushroom with a more conventional round/flat cap and gills.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Jul 2019 19:29:42 No.10830911 Report

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>>10830871
you can reuse sawdust, both from sawdust bags that they grow in, or from ground up logs

The sawdust contain the mycelium which are the roots. Plant those "roots" in a new source (log or sawdust bag) with favorable growth conditions and it'll take root and grow.

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