FounderZ said:

inoculated with live culture 01/29/2026, it's currently on day 14,
What do you guys who grow Lion's Mane think?

I'm assuming this is a fast 10-14 day strain and I can now throw it to my substrate blocks I made.

I'm thinking 2 1/2 cups of spawn (a jar worth) to each 5LB block. Toss a grain on agar to maintain the culture and make liquid culture soon.

Any tips for loading the grow bags, and how to leave them and what to watch for next!?

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You'd get more eyes of lion's mane growers in the gourmet forum. There's a "general discussion" thread if you want to hop on an existing one.

Haven't grown it in a while, but it looks ready to my eyes. Too much longer and it'll start making primordia in the jar.

If the bags are supplemented, you don't need nearly a full jar of grain spawn per bag. Maybe 1/4 of one, even less will be fine for 5 lb of substrate. Thermogenesis (self-heating) can be a problem with high spawn ratios in supplemented bags. If they're pure wood, a full jar can help replace the nutrients you'd otherwise get from supplementation.

The mycelium will be almost invisible on wood too. You have to pay pretty close attention to catch it fully colonized before it starts fruiting in the bag. (Or you can just use that as the signal that it's time to fruit them. ) Are you going to fruit in a tent? Lion's mane likes a ton of FAE (oyster levels) and is also pretty intolerant to low humidity.

neuroshaman said:

Anything I should be concerned about?

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tultedspoon said:

@ BeefExtreme

Appreciate it, sometimes I don't have time to get on here but I usually do go back and read through everything it just takes me awhile. Sometimes I log in and there's like 7 new pages I have to go through it sucks but is good because more to learn.

Thank you for the skyscraper analogy. At what point will spore prints produce skyscrapers? Would I have to struggle from spore prints for approximately 7 generations? Or would cloning a fruit, then hopefully growing a flush from that clone, then taking several different prints from that flush, then running separate prints in jars, expedite results by starting from a print that has maybe more spores with skyscrapers?

So I guess to ask is cloning necessary into getting skyscrapers into my spores? or is it always the standard 7 generations starting from spores each time that matters? Like maybe there is a print from the clone flush that would have skyscrapers after 3 generations?

Most of my jars look clean, only two have some orange metabolite drops pissing through the surface. Of the jars that look clean, I'm just having trouble understanding why things are taking forever to fruit. I have been trying to heat the room to low 70s, not sure if 75 degrees is an absolute must to get fruits or if fruits will just form slower if it's below that. I can't really increase heating due to costs. This is for Panaeolus. Some of the mycelium looks so good on the sides of my jar, way more than what was there on the shitty surface that gave me that fruit before.

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andymc said:

neuroshaman said:

Anything I should be concerned about?

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RUN!

kidding

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BeefExtreme said:

am I missing something? I don't see the problem with just using the 15 psi setting and running it for the normal amount of time.

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For agar you want the starch

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ihansterx4i said:

Do I have to pre soak grains? Wheat in this case?

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I never soak any grains, rinse, boil, dry outside and PC, works so far