Mushroom Liquid Culture - Lion's Mane (Hericium Erinaceus)

Ok so I got busy and this sat in my mycology room for a year ... and then I finally got around to using it a couple months ago to inoculate some grain ... and it worked - no contamination. The syringe of lion's mane mycelium from this company was legit and clean. Furthermore, I got my first harvest today and cooked it, and this specific strain tastes even better than the kind from my local grocery store. This literally tastes like roast beef when cooked in a stir-fry. This tasted soooo good, and I wasn't expecting that - like wow, I don't think I'll even buy it from the store again ... collected some spore-prints too and ya this one syringe is gonna let me grow sooooo many because all it takes is a clean sample like this and then you can to grain to grain after your first half dozen jars and turn each jar into twenty more and its like ... exponential. TL;DR Clean sample, fast colonizer, good genetics for taste; best lion's mane I ever tasted. Easy to grow as a first timer.

Produced lots of mushrooms , very good product

I grow mushrooms and got tried of paying for kits with everything ready to go. These are expensive and great for beginners, but I want to make grow bags and mix substrate so I needed the spores to start everything. I love growing lion mane and when I got the syringe I injected half into liquid culture and half into a grow bag. This way, I can grow more mushrooms, more frequently and don't have to spend 30 dollars on a kit that I use one time.

So I cultured this onto 1 of 7 agar petri dishes and 6 of my agar controls remained clean. The 6 where I did not add any of the liquid culture lions mane syringe had no contamination. This was within 24 hours after inoculation. I trasher it to get it out of my house. I didnt even try and culture it away from the bacteria cause the mycelium would not grow at all it just dies as the bacteria spread. You get what you pay should have went with a lab thats actually clean.

Arrived with a huge crack in it, I only noticed while I was injecting my grain spawn because it started squirting everywhere. Injected the rest because I don't even know how much actually went in, hopefully a miracle happens and it isn't contaminated and I didn't just have 50$ wasted right in front of me. Will definitely be inspecting syringes beforehand now 😔 Edit: Seller send a new one and I'm already seeing some mycelium in the bag, review stars adjusted accordingly

Delivery came right away. We started twenty agar cultures with 100% success. No contamination. Very vigorous growth after a slow start the first three days. Flavor is not part of the rating as that depends more on the growth substrate than on genetics, and will take a while to find out about.

Innoculated 12/27, rye isn't showing any signs of growth. Giving it a 3 star because sometimes its just the luck of the draw when it comes to growing mushrooms.

Started 2 quart jars with this, and they both fully colonized, allowing me to get 4 bags of substrate knocked up. No problems I noticed, but they definitely prefer side fruiting. Makes a great addition to ramen with a quick stir fry and soy sauce glaze