How to Grow Lion's Mane Mushrooms (Recipe Included!)
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The Lion's Mane mushroom, also known as Hericium erinaceus, is a DELICIOUS mushroom that's easy to grow at home. I got a kit from www.fungi.com and tested it out with my cousin...and it's now my favorite mushroom to grow (and eat) of all time. It tastes buttery, like a nice piece of lobster or crab.
Best of all, it only takes a couple of weeks to grow and you can get multiple harvests off of the same patch. Once the patch is finished, you can use the mycelium to inoculate wood logs in your yard so you can cultivate Lion's Mane year after year.
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Watched this video 2 months ago. After that ordered my own grow kit. It went great, first it was a bit slow but then I put it nearer to a lamp. harvested about 500 grams first flush and about 1kg second flush. Love the chewiness of Mushroom, it s much like squid.
Glad to hear it worked out well for you...two flushes of that yield is impressive!
Epic Gardening guess there was some beginners luck involved :-) But definetly a good start into a new Hobby.
Does it still grow???
voltaire balagtas no. It consumed a lot of the nutritious mix and I wanted to do the next step, clone the spores and create my own grow bags. But I got a bad stomach disease (unrelated to mushrooms) and could not care for the mushrooms, they dried out. Dumped the whole thing (without the plastic) in a nearby forest, maybe it will grow there.
And I will re-start from scratch. Still looking for a better place to grow as well, since I did it in my tiny single room city apartment and read some stories that spores can be very unhealthy on the lungs.
Imagine growing one of those suckers in your lung?
Boiling water doesn’t remove chlorine and the hot water will absorb a lot of plastic micro particles from the bottle.
When the bag is done fruiting use the grain to inoculate 5 more bags. Grow those inside and when those bags are done inoculate 25 more bags if you want to do it a little better
"so that you don't grow too much mold or fungus" 😭 i thought fungus was the whole point hahaha
You all prolly dont give a damn but does someone know a way to get back into an instagram account?
I somehow forgot my password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me!
@@zevlegend4267 Why would Lester Chan out of any body on TH-cam give a damn
@@colesmith7230 lol wtf
It's easy to grow fungus, but growing the one you want is the hard part
The mushroom substrate a.k.a the food is sterilized and is a blank slate for any fungus to get in… So at that stage, the lions mane is the primary fungus who has taken most all of the food, and therefore controls that general area… But it’s not impossible for a foreign spawn to make its way in an infiltrate if you are careful
we got one of those last Spring. Got 2 flushes out of it.
We used a little laundry basket to give form to the plastic tent. Worked well for keeping the plastic bag from touching the mushrooms.
Have since bought wood chips, bags and spawn to make our own. I have a 41 Qt All American Canner to sterilize the wood chips.
Ok now do a video on how to keep it growing g forever 😁
I was going to ask, what do you mean forever, you actually have to buy the kit or can you show how to do it on your own? 🙂
You can take the bag after the first three or so flushes of mushrooms then move them to something like a monotub with more substrate, wait a little while to colonize then they will grow new mushrooms. Some mushrooms are many thousands of years old spaning many acres if you give them food and the right environment they will flourish
@@noodleboi6711 Funghy are epic
@@wytsewolf yea they are quite amazing
It funny to me that I have been subscribed to you for some time now. However I never knew you did this video. However tonight I've been trying to find out how to cook the one(lionsmane) I grew. I'm quite excited to try some more mushrooms. I've got some wine caps coming. If you want someone to grow with, we can compare notes.
To remove Chorine from city water, simply let sit exposed to air overnight. Pour water into a bowl and leave it on the counter for 12 or more hours. Chorine naturally evaporates away.
Also, there is a small error in temperature to dry out mushrooms. Turn pan on lowest heat setting. Alternatively, you can slice as recommended and place it in an oven at its lowest setting.
Great job on describing taste and texture and showing the value of drying out before cooking.
Thanks for spreading the news about mushroom cultivation. Especially the nod to Fungi Perfecti. Paul Stamets is/has done amazing work concerning saving ecosystems and ourselves w/fungi. I just began cultivating fungi this last summer and have a lion's mane 'block' almost ready to fruit now. I would encourage all viewers interested to look into the amazing benefits of mushrooms, for health, the ecosystem, food and fun! Also- I believe it's better NOT to 'stab' the mycelial mass when cutting holes for fruiting. Cheers to being beshroomed!
Yeah, Stamets is AMAZING. Good call on the stabbing - in my kit I was a bit more delicate than my cousin ;)
So be careful and just cut holes in the plastic?
@@GrowKingdom Maybe he's saying look at it like it's life, like it's a pet. Like when you have a plant, you want it to be healthy and bear lots of flowers. You want it to grow well and be happy. So you don't want to start off by stabbing the shit out of it. That's my guess anyways. Maybe it's something totally else?
@@timmellis5038 can cause contaminations and will certainly bruise the myciliam causing it to stall and possibly not fruit from that area
I got some lions mane and turkey tail from fungi-perfecti last year. The turkey tail is starting to fruit. I'm here because I didn't know when to expect to see the lions mane start. I watched Adam Haratains video on Lions mane and he mentioned fall and it looked like autumn in the video. Any thoughts on when I could exspect eruption?
I have been collecting these in the wild since the 70's. My favorite recipe is making a wonderful cream of mushroom soup. The original prep before creating the soup is very much what you did here. My absolute favorite "shroom, with black trumpets and the cauliflower coming 2nd and 3rd.
In the UK it is illegal to collect them in wild. They are one of the most highly protected mushroom species.
I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??
I'm so interested in the experience but am terrified of having a bad trip
I did two grams last time, it was a thrilling experience and I enjoyed it
This whole thing is pretty new to me, can I try 3grams?
@Angela carter where to search? Is it IG ??
@Angela carter alright, I'll reach out to him immediately to get some
Love the Video EXCEPT! Boiling water does not remove chlorine and calcium, it just concentrates it, those chemicals don't vanish when the water is boiled, but the water does become less dense thereby making the ratio of other chemicles higher. Filter the water first to do the same trick
Just put the water in the sun for a bit and it will dechlorinate it
They say these mushrooms can and do reverse nerve damage in all parts of the body. Very helpful for the minds of the old timers in your family. Great shroom overall.
I’ve seen the benefits first hand! I’d recommend it for anyone with acquired brain injury or dementias etc
i would kill to magically know how much of all this is hyperbole and placebo effect. I never trust anyone with any kinds of claims because most people are kind of stunted. Im still growing it and trying it anyway, just not because of the claims exactly.
Who is “they?”
Well y'all sure made that look easy! A grower I was going to buy from said it is really too hard for a home grower to successfully grow. I'm thinking that was a lie after watching this video.
Get a kit. I never grew a mushroom in my life but have been growing microgreens for about 6 months and wanted to try Lion's Mane. They're my favourite mushroom and Whole Foods is crazy expensive for them. They are REALLY easy to grow. Now I have micros upstairs and Lion's Mane in the basement. Feels good to be self-reliant for some of this stuff.
These are the best tasting mushroom you almost forget you are eating a mushroom they are delicious!!!!
Couldn't agree more! It's like a lobster
So do you think it’s more like lobster now after you’ve had a few minutes plus to process your opinion?
Daniel Clark I bet if you cook with herbs you use with lobster it would taste even better
Where can i buy some?
I have a brain injury and have been taking this in supplement for a couple months...I have been having radical improvements.
Paul Staments is the Man! hes incredible so thank you for mentioning him, more people will now learn about him and his epic work! Love Lions Mane cheers all
Anything will taste good with butter and salt. :)
You got me there!
@@Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial He said butter and salt, not cheese.
And that’s why I say anyone who says they can’t cook is just lazy lol. 90% of cooking is butter, salt, and pepper on something in a skillet
Unsolvable Captcha ugh dick cheese
Unsolvable Captcha Penis Envy is a strain of Psilocybin mushroom. They have albino(leucistic not true albino) Penis envy, Penis envy uncut(PEU) and they look like their namesake lol. Just google “Penis envy mushroom”
Lions mane is my favorite of all mushrooms and so hard to find. Thanks for the video, I had no idea you could get them in a kit.
Video should be called: "How to buy a pre-made mushroom patch"
Still interesting, but pretty misleading.
You are right - but I have custom substrate tutorials coming soon!
Agreed
Yup lol
@@epicgardening that said it still does nothing for the video.
There are people that want to know how to do this so he is providing a service! Get a life, trolls.
I cook it up with Montreal steakspice and a few teaspoons of alfredo sauce.
Sounds delicious!
Try white pepper it brings out the natural earthy flavours of the mushroom
Thank you! I've been growing Lion's Mane finally in my home and have been struggling to figure out if that mushiness was normal or what. I knew about cooking out the moisture from other videos about other mushrooms, but just didn't do that part for long enough. Thanks again!
You're welcome!
Does preparing it this way include the brain & gut health benefits of Lion's Mane?
Super cool, I always wanted to grow some lions mane after seeing it in my grandfathers garden. Mmm tasty, perfect seasoning choice
I love mushrooms🥰
You can grow these forever in your own home... Well said
Whoa!! Didnt know u did mushrooms! Was looking for lions mane recipes and stumbled upon my main man! Beautiful mushies my dude!
Edit: Dope ur supporting Fungi Perfecti, love Paul Stammets
dude, watching this made me so hungry.
Dude I have GOT to get one of these kits! I found one of these in the woods last year and we brought it home and cooked it... Delicious AF! I heard Paul Stamates on Joe Rogan say that Lions Mane promotes neurogenesis so... maybe eating them will make you smarter too!
I found one growing out of the end of a log, just outside a mushroom convention in Oregon.
Couldn't believe no one else saw it.
As to the issue of humidity, what about putting your set up on a tray filled with pea gravel and water? Would that reduce the number of misting you have to do?
Love the enthusium...about growing and cooking and eating... Well done, and thank you from an absolute newbie.
Where can i buy some of this fresh lions maine?
5:00 me every time I cook
Got one of these kits from south west mushroom and they are getting huge! I use a reptile fogger for automatic misting so I just refill it like once a week, save on time!
If I eat this, will I grow a new, more better brain? I need a more better brain. Now, where're my keys?
Wish I could promise that! ;)
You left them in the side of the shroom bag.
I am selling more better brain for a limited time. So hurry!
I have been eating them for 2 years...they help your brain for about 2 hours after consumption, but it stops....then you eat more. NOW try eating green beans, full of silicone....that attracks and sticks to aluminum like a magnet....and flushes aluminum out of your body..exercise 20 minutes (why God carefully created Eve with all her curves..) and huff and puff for 20 minutes and that helps your brain...for 24 hours. - great stuff.
I have been. Looking for a start to finish lions main video. I wood. Love to see more. Mushroom videos
I wish this had been about growing mushrooms or at the most the intro to growing mushrooms. What species of trees can be innoculated? What are the conditions? What problems might one encounter? Does one have to sterilize or do anything special to prep the tree trunk for innoculation? Any temperatures or humidities or lighting conditions we need to know about??
Only use hardwood. It's best to get a log that's less than one month old, else too great a risk of competition from other fungi. Always a good idea to disinfect your drill bit. Definitely needs to be in the shade. Plan on two years to harvest.
Fantastic Fungi 💕
Thanks for having me on! Cheers to fungi.
Delicious and nutritious!
Genius level Info. And the cooking tips too. Who would have thought, butter and gas. Can't wait for the toast video.
Thank you Epic gardener for having mushrooms videos!
Just wondering: Those tiny pieces that separated when cutting, can those be tossed into the bag and start a new mushroom?
Does it retain the neurogenetic effect when cooked that way? Looks great but I want to feed my brain too
Extractions of this mushroom for use as a nootropic are processed at 130-140F.
Just found 1 the other day, cooked it up and it was amazing🤤🤤
just bringing water to a boil doesn't get rid of chloramine, unless you boil for like 2 hours(given the approximate volume he had in that pan)
kudos for your efforts
Correct, on my site I talked about campden tablets to get rid of the chloramine
What if you used distilled water? Does it matter if the water has minerals?
@机Olga Chloramine kills fish and frogs in these concentrations, thus it has sufficient biologic impact to be concerned about it's impact on your myceleum.
@@MarcyStuart I would use reverse osmosis filtered water myself, from Whole Foods in store machine. BYO bottle, $.49 per gallon.
Mushrooms concentrate environmental toxins.
If your local water is treated with chlorine... 24 hours in an open topped container, such as a bucket, at room temperature and the chlorine will evaporate to the point that you can use it for your fish or amphibians... This should suffice for growing fungi, assuming your local water is free of contaminants.
Best tasting mushroom ever...just made an omelette with slices of it this morning...
Sweet. I will try this in 2 weeks! Just got my hubby a grow lot for his birthday and it's been going a week.
There's a gourmet mushroom farm in about 5 minutes away from my house. We took the tour and received a free Lion's Mane kit. Just harvested the first flush.
I used to grow mushrooms from spore prints. Sterilized my own substrate, inoculated the grain, etc. (Yes, absolutely bragging. What else is the comments section for besides bragging and being a know-it-all critic of the vids?)
Anyway, my mushrooms were less culinary and more...healing.
The $18 a pound experience. Eating like a rich king with a mushroom like that.
This has been on my to do list..your video just pushed it to my MUST DO NOW list ..Thank You!
Just harvested & cooked our first crop (of MANY, I hope!) of Lion's Mane- VERY GOOD! I'm doing an experiment to try & collect spores in a few different ways for additional grows. Thanks for the prep tips!
Onions and butter it makes it taste like lobster try it 🦐🦀
Вау! Это просто великолепно!
Спасибо, ребята, за такое подробное видео!
Do they have to be cooked or can the be marinated and dehydrated -no cook method?
Love Lions Mane, Shitake, blue oyster, hen of the woods (odd texture, but tastes good!). My son got me started recently, trying these. There is the amazing Maine Mushroom farm and they are at my local farmers market. Well worth the cost if you love mushrooms!
I think it would be better to dehydrated then and blend to a powder then use on anything.
Those are beautiful, thank you for this video I love how passionate you are about these as well, the world needs more people like you
Thank you!
Please next time print the name of the white things that you put inside of the bag. Thsnks
@Epicgardening is perfectly named! I buy my Birdies raised beds from him and am loving them! I think I've got around 10 -ish? Hard to keep track- such an inspiration for the garden.
Cool how it's stringy
Nice one guys, I'm sold.
You can get some really good magic mushrooms from Scottytripz
On Instagram
Just recently discover shrooms amazing properties, thanks for the video, will buy mi kit and trie this
Good luck Eduardo!
Most people will not mist 2 to 3 times a day for a month for first flush of growth.
If only we could go back in time and tell 2017 you about 2020 and you would be like Whaaaat
How long did it take to grow that mushroom?
boiling water is not filtering... with less H2O, what do you think is left behind? the accumulated compounds.
This was to remove chlorine
i see.
I think he was boiling filtered water.
You can also just leave it out for 24 hours and the chlorine will dissipate.
Chlorine evaporates when boiled for long enough, about 20 minutes is often enough. What you say is a problem if you're using that water for plants in your garden. Tap water tends to calcify the soil and some sensitive plants tend to die because of it.
Try using a dehydrator instead of dry paning it tastes a whole lot better
Yum yum teflon so delicious
Looks a bit like cauliflower. But I need onions in my mushrooms. As someone who doesn’t like the taste of seafood or shellfish but would love to try those recipes (such as crab cakes), this sounds like the perfect food for me!
You put the hot water into the plastic spray bottle letting plenty of plastic residues into the water that are probably worse than the chlorine you boiled off. Good video still so thanks for sharing. I'm just a plasti-phobe is all.
guess ur not into drinking milk or soda or riding in cars or burshing your teeth LOL HA BRAAAA
@@jasonlynch6936 - I think the key difference is putting hot water into plastics. Isn't THAT what tends to start the chemicals leaching into the water? That's why they say you shouldn't leave water bottles in your car.
I know, I shivered when he poured the hot water in cheap plastic 😬
@@HipDancerGirl23 - That wasn't the point though.
He should have used filtered water instead of tap water.
That's crazy! It looks like a brain when you cut it up. Amyloid plaque, be gone! Haha
Bahaha, it's definitely one weird looking fungi!
that's right.....isn't the Creation perfect...like hint, hint...eat me for your brain...
Yes, can’t wait to try this! By the way this is also true for walnuts, they look like little brains too 😀
"Ok, coffee and mushrooms" 😂👍😃
I grew some in my yard.
John Leguizamo promoting Lions mane
Thanks for showing how it looks when ready to fruit. Heating water and letting it stand, or just let it stand all night, lightly covered, should take care of the Cl, and of not letting in anything extra, like spores in the air, or flies or whatever
You're welcome! And totally!
@@epicgardening dope video! Aye but I had an important question: what if your lions mane mushroom flushes 2x to 3x in about a 2 months time. Is that good or normal??
Several years ago I had really good luck with the Fungi Perfecti shitake kit, had several flushes, but my grand plans to inoculate logs ended when I moved away from the country. Never heard of Lion's Mane mushroom, but now I'm intrigued (never tasted a mushroom I didn't like!) Thanks for the video!
Making crab cakes... using these for the crab is a beautiful way to eat these.
Yummm
Hey just wondering how long does it take to regrow mushroom once the mushroom is harvested and how long does the growing kit normally last for until you can't produce any mushrooms.
3-4 flushes.
Very delicious, like vegan seafood.👍🏻😁❤🍄
Lion's mane mushroom is sold by my naturopathic doctor of 50 years. It regrows and rejuninates brain cells. Know someone with a stroke... give em lions mane.
These literally look like the most delicious thing in existance
They're soooo good
Looking good
One of the best Nootropics as well. Think I might try this. Thanks!
You're welcome!
I have grown this and use a $20 tabletop IKEA greenhouse, along with a glass of water inside, to keep the humidity high. I double process (look up the research to see that neurogenesis is from aqua-extract) with water, then alcohol. I use 80 proof, then mix it 1-1 with water for 40 proof. It has been shelf stable for me. A $30 grow kit and $20 in Vodka yielded me about 50 ounces of extract...if you buy Lion's Mane extract retail it is $20/ounce. This is one of those items you should definitely try yourself. You will think sharper, colors are more vivid and your thought process more fluid. Good luck!
Lucy Brenton Nice! How does the quality compare to the lion’s mane Supplements (pills)? Your system seems like a more economical approach.
@@lucybrenton149 can you just eat raw mushrooms instead
If its fruiting inside the bag but not fully colonized should i open it and put it in fruit tent?
Is there any research into farming mushrooms without the petroleum based plastic bags? Thank you.
I'm sure there is - I'm not aware of...will research for future mushroom videos
try google.... thousands upon thousanda of tek
Nice!!! Thanks for the info!!! I'm going to try it with lobster seasoning.
I did 4 slits in a kit from myc tyson. You dont need to take the "top layer" off. There is no need to introduce potential contamination for something that has little to no effect on flushes
exactly!
i think you did great.
When can you take the outer grow bag off? Mine are getting big, and I don’t know if I should keep putting the misted bag over them?
I got my psychedelic products from @lightztripz on Instagram They also grow mushrooms 🍄 and sell and lot more....
It loos delicious. Just ordered a bag to grow. Thank you for the video.
Question for you ive been growing mushrooms at home and just this year having a terrible problem with fungus gnats and ive tried a number of things, all natural, neem oil, safters spray and noting seems to work. I just had to throw out a grow due to infestation on the substrate , i dont want to risk another until i get some help with this, thank you ps love your channel im learning a ton!!!
"How to get contamination on your first try"
I was thinking the same thing
I’m not trynna be rude but I don’t understand your comment?
@@TheChos3nOne to touch a fruiting block with bare hands in a non sterile environment and spraying with tap water and not cutting slits with a sterile blade is a recipe for growing a big ol' block of mold
@@Feffro oh , that makes sense. I’ve never grown em so I was just like yeah seems right lol
@@Feffro yes and no. Yes it helps to have very sterile and clean environment when fruiting as it i improves the quality all around. I agree with taking the most precautions as possible. No it's not 100% necessary as the mycelium has colonized the substrate enough that mold and bacteria in the air is too small to do anything. I have good luck and 3-4 flushes at a time before it loses it's health. I never use gloves (in fruit stage) or supper sterile practices when in fruiting have had a few contain, but everyone does. That was in the beginning now i got it down and have a heppa filer in the room along with a labcoat /mask/footie. That seemed to do the trick as long is you keep it clean it not a big deal just use common sense.
Can't you use distilled water?
I'd actually rather grow this mushroom on logs outside. Then bone dry them out, and soak in port wine (like I do Chaga). That way you get the oils extracted in the raw. So more medicinal that way.
Sounds fantastic...love that technique.
I've been doing my extracts in vodka...can you share why port wine is important? And might be better?
@@lucybrenton149 It's important to a hipster.
*butter, salt, pepper*
Hey it tastes like salt and pepper, and butter. And like a mushroom.
💥👁️👄👁️💥
these are really healthy too-
Good for the brain!
Epic Gardening yes :)
Supposedly this type is good against Parkinson's Disease. Not sure how or when to be used..
I wonder if you could continue the grow after the second or third flush using a quick pot sterilized batch of coco coir in a bucket.
Can you put these in a dehydrator as opposed to cooking? Just a random thought.
I believe so but may work better w/ other mushrooms (shiitake, morel)
I need to touch that mushroom! It's a fluffy mushroom
On Instagram..
You cannot boil chlorine out of water. You can only change the state I would recommend using natural spring or mountain water and boiling it to get rid of all the contaminants that can infect your mushrooms.
Liked everything but the humor. Lol don't know about the salt thing but to each his own.
Pickle smooching at its best
The guy with the beard looks like this other guy from the YT ad where he's standing next to his lambos and talked about the books you have to read...
I get that all of the time and I hate it hahaha
„Knowledege is power“ :-]
Okayyy. That's your comment? How is it relative to the video? You just want to be acknowleged for making a "clever" comparison? Ok, oh my you are so observant. Thanks for pointing that out to us... uhh...🙀 What's your name again?
@@jonm3294 lol. What are you getting so upset about? Had a bad day?
@@Pweber8888 What, bad day? Nooooo haha. Just have often been puzzled why people bother to make comments about a video that doesn't ask a question relating to the topic or adding more info to it. If what they offer does neither I assume they just want some attention and/or trolling. FYI, I think the guy you mentioned is named Tai Lopez if I remember correctly. I watched a couple of his videos a few years ago but thought he was bogus imo so didn't watch more. Apparently many people like what he has to say, not me., lol.