How To Grow Lions Mane Mushrooms! | GroCycle
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- The amazing Lion’s Mane mushroom is delicious, and is packed with some amazing health benefits as well. And did you know? Lion’s Mane is very easy to grow, and fun too!
Join us in this video, where we look at the easiest way to grow the Lion’s Mane Mushroom. We also take a look at some of the issues that can happen along the way, and show you some great tips on how to succeed!
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Chapters:
00:14 - An introduction to the Lion’s Mane mushroom
00:36 - The health benefits associated with Lion’s Mane
01:06 - Growing the Lion’s Mane mushroom
01:52 - Using grow kits or ready to fruit substrate blocks
04:26 - Creating the ideal fruiting conditions
06:47 - When to harvest Lion’s Mane
07:37 - Further crops
08:45 - Common issues and troubleshooting tips
09:36 - Making your own Lion’s Mane substrate blocks
10:26 - Sterilizing your substrate
11:45 - Growing Lion’s Mane the “Low Tech” way (non-sterile)
12:35 - Making your own Lion’s Mane spawn
13:19 - A final note on Lion’s Mane mycelium!
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I grow my lion’s mane with only a pseudo pasteurisation: 1200g of dry substrate (hard wood pellets with ~20% alfalfa pellets as supplementation + tea spoon of gypsum) + 1700ml of boiling water directly in the unicorn filter bag. Seal and leave it to pasteurize under a blanket for about 1h30. Let cool down and inoculate with about 300g grain spawn using a large funnel and a slit made in the bag to pour the grain into the bag. Seal the slit with tape-no sterile airflow needed. Works great. No real contamination issues. Good yields!
It'd be cool if you done a video of you making your substrate! 🎉
are you saying that you only get "pseudo contamination" using this method?
@@themyceliumnetwork it’s call pseudo pasteurization because you don’t maintain your substrate in boiling water for the whole time of the process, so the temperature remains lower than the classic pasteurization technique. Nonetheless it is efficient and rarely lead to contamination, with fast colonization species such as Lion’s mane, but also slower ones. I use this technique for all species I grow so far. One would think the hotter the pasteurization process the better in terms of repelling contamination, yet it’s more complicated than that. If you kill nearly all the germs with an advanced pasteurization or a sterilization, you will create a void of life in your substrate that is very attractive to any remaining contaminant, so if you’re not extra sterile in your technique to add the mycelium, you will get contamination. With lower pasteurization, you preserve certain micro organisms in your substrate that are not problematic in terms of contamination when you introduce the mycelium. There will be some balance between these microorganisms and your mycelium which will protect your substrate from the real bad guys. That’s about it.
@@MathieuGoldstein that was a huge reply about "pasteurization/sterilization" when I didn't even mention that.
I tried the same method with strawpellets and alfalfa for oysters, hardwoodpellets and alfalfa for enoki, pioppino and shiitake. Oysters no contamination problems, shiitake 2 Bags out of 45 in Icubation tthat had mold. I do prepare the substrate in a bigger bin first, let it cool overnight and fill and inoculate the bags the next morning. Just a mask, and gloves, no sterile air flow. Works for me. Greetings from Austria.
P.S. I currently experiment with organic fertilizer pellets made from harvest waste products as a supplementation instead of the alfalfa pellets, let's see how this works out. No contamination in the first 30 bags, curious to find out the yield in the next weeks. 😁
Been watching you guys for years and have been growing oyster and lions mane since. Good stuff lads
Thank you for sharing this information in such a comprehensive way! Your channel is awesome!
Thank you guys, that was very well explained.
This in my opinion is the best tutorial on youtube on growing lion's mane mushroom, and I've watched them all.
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Thank you very much. I just started growing them commercially in a small indoor farm and this is very helpful for me.
I grow a lot of lion manes and this is really the best video! everything is in this content. THANK YOU
Thanks for this. I already bought my liquid culture and this is a great guide on what to do with it.
As always, so interesting and informative! I love lions mane, haven’t tried growing it myself, but just might in the future!
Thanks for sharing this information. I'm in Brazil and I always watch your videos. Thank you very much !
Thank you I just bought my first colonized block and thought the same thing, that it hadn't spawned enough. I've grown several other species and they're always fully white before fruiting. This has been great info thanks. Few more months and I'll move on to doing my own from scratch using cloning from my kits.
I just learned so much and idk anything at all about mushroom growing. So this is very good. Might try now. I need my own herb cabinet. I’m creating something beautiful here soon.
Many thanks for the insights! All the best!
Amazing, I wish to grow some lions mane soon!
Thanks for sharing 😁🙏🏼
Great video!!!
Really interesting, thank you. Had no idea about this mushroom but was watching a chef cooking with them recently.
Great video with lots of good tips. I tried several ways to grow Lion's mane in a non standard way, with a great rate of failure. I also sterilise my substrate and grains in a baby bottle steriliser in the microwave with a very high success rate. Best thing is, only takes 30 mins. This of course is only for home use.
Thank you. Great advices.
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This is a really good video. honestly Thank you. Very down to earth and thorough introduction for beginners growing mushrooms at home.
Just ordered a bag of mycelium in subtrate that I can harvest soon, and 300 mycelium plugs to put in some birch trunks that ill cut down this autumn! Cant wait for them to grow :D Thanks for the info
Yes I will be trying this when I am home for good Thank you
Awesome show sir I learned a lot I wanna grow them probably get one of those fruiting chambers are and I have my memory slipping a little bit due to Covid and I’m hoping this will help me a lot if not I enjoy the heck out of eating mushrooms all right thank you again sir
Outstanding video gentlemen. Thank you.
I just bought a kit, I'm gonna give it a go!
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Great overview. Looking forward to growing some.
So generous of you to share such interesting information! Thank you!
Thank you for this generous sharing of your invaluable experience in such a clear and inspiring way.
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A very informative video. Thank you.
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Great video, thank you for posting. Why can't the mushroom touch anything?
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Thank you so much guys for sharing your experience about all the awesome mushrooms’ world. Since I’ve watched “Fantastic Fungi” from Paul Stamets about one year ago I’ve been thrown in a new passion that I, unfortunately, must keep at domestic size. Last year I tried with lion’s mane, but I understood just now they got too much CO2 and low humidity. Nobody else like you explained this facts in such an understandable way with clear pictures. Thank you again ❤
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I am going to try and grow Lions Mane to use it for the health benefits. 😊
I'm trying to get brave enough to give it a try! Thx for the into.
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I just like how you can cook it as a meat substitute
I’ve been successfully inoculating my own lions mane by pasturing the substrate. I have found an affordable spawn supplier that allows me to do so. I use 3 cups spawn for a 12 pound block.
That rounds up at about the ~30% spawn rate mentioned in the video, interesting and adds even more certainty to this method if anyone wants or has to go non-sterile!
That's about the ratio we found to work, so we're glad to hear you've had success to using a low-tech method!!
@@GroCycleTVWhere are the Lion's Mane Mushroom fungal spores and how to extract the fungal spore species value?
Where are the Lion's Mane Mushroom fungal spores and how to extract the fungal spore species value?
@@GroCycleTVWhere are the Lion's Mane Mushroom fungal spores and how to extract the fungal spore species value?
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Thank you for all the great info. I have an order coming in the mail and will try different methods and different mushrooms.
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Can you keep on growing them off the same batch continuously or do they have a limited lifespan?
mycelium is triggered to fruit(make mushrooms) when it runs low/out of food. Fruiting is it reproducing because it is sensing death soon. You can break up one batch of mycelium after harvest and spread it into a few more batches. A lot of growers do this. Some just cultivate cultures and store them so they can make what they want, when they want.
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My best friends parents gave me a block for Christmas and I was running around trying to find a way to grow these. Thank you for the information!!
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Fab video. I’d like to try this as a novice. Can i get the stuff needed (innoculated block, housing, and temp& humidity meter) from your site?
Wow, really inspiring! Great job, guys!
I just wish there was a way without so many wasteful plastic bags.
i'm going to give it a go
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I recently started with mushrooms, starting with lion's mane. Fell in love with it immediately, despite an early failure (or disappointing success as it did produce a tiny result). Already ordered LC and equipment. Though it is bold as a novice to experiment, I am going to grow out spawn on grain, then try to grow lion's mane on oak and bamboo...
Using a bucket method, though I am questioning that choice from some of the videos I've seen. Still, I'll give it go and see how well it works..
Thanks for the video, I've saved it as a guide as I start my own process...
I started growing mushrooms day 1 from LC and enjoyed the process. I've done the bucket thing on sterilized straw for oysters, I found the yields were less than grow bags with HWSD but it does work.
@@Spe3D3m0n That's interesting since everything else I've seen or heard has been that yields are significantly higher with buckets.
@@stormagorist6129 don't take my experience as gospel by any means. I didn't have my environmental factors tuned in at that stage in my experimenting. I did however decide that either way straw was too much of a mess. It very well may produce much more than bags
@@Spe3D3m0n I appreciate knowing what others have been through and done regardless. I don't have access to straw so I am using what I have on property. Experiments start this weekend so I should know in a few months whether this will work or not.. Might have to get bags and some pellets just to try that way also, but that is much more expensive so I'd prefer to use the oak and bamboo..
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Well done, every thing we need to know, But i think i just buy them from shop.Thank you.
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Can you grow Lion Mane or any variety on Wheat stray and or the wheat grain?
I want to learn to grow them, so informative - thank you
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Could you just back slop to incoculate a new substrate taking a percentage of the the mycelium from the first block?
I tried growing Lionsmane using flax seed husk and hardwood fuel pellets but think the liquid culture was a bit contaminated as only had one one lions mane and lots of what i can only describe as a lichen looking fruit from the same block and the lions mane only came out after I had to put the block into the freezer to kill off fungus nats that had found their way into the monotub
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Great informative video guy`s. I have my first Lions Mane growing at the moment. Just a suggestion but some links to any reputable and value for money uk suppliers would be a good idea, or do you produce your own substrate blocks?
We partner with a local grower who supplies our substrate block - he was one of our course members! Drop us a line at hello@grocycle.com if you're interested in getting hold of some...!
I have seen lions mane grown on food grade buckets. How can the substrate be sterilised in buckets?
I just purchased a momotub Excited to get started growing oyster, lions mane and shitake
Good luck!
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge. ♥Could you please tell me how much you can harvest from one bag or from a square meter?
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Are you able to propagate from given samples? I'm thinking some unique African Wild mushrooms
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Wow this is very interesting can I grow this on my windowsill in my kitchen
Just started growing lions mane
Great video! When you say 'hydrate sawdust pellets to 60%' does that mean adding 300 g of water to 1 kg of pellets? Can I sterilise this (in bags) in my pressure cooker just to be on the safe side?
It's much more than that.
You add something like 1.2 L of water to 1kg of sawdust
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seeing that Guga Foods used this as an experimental steak I am curious how to grow them!
I've only grown consumer pre-colonized kits and gotten large but very low-density fruits. Hope giving them more controlled conditions will improve my results in the future! Are any of the parameters more relevant to density than others, or do they all need to be bang on to get a result that would pass for professional? How sensitive are LM (or others) to variable conditions? I think I've erred on the side of too much fresh air and/or inconsistent/low humidity.
No such thing as too much fresh air unless it's the air drying out the environment. If you're just fruiting a single bag now and again, you can address the humidity and fresh air issue by using a humidity tent, and by placing a jar of water with an air stone in it under the tent. Put the air pump outside of the tent.
Can I use lime pasteurisation to grow lions mane mushrooms?
Lions mane grows wild in the woods behind my house. I have found so many different species of mushrooms I started making a book where I draw the pictures of different species. I found so many types of aminta! I even found a destroying angel, it's probably the most beautiful thing ❤
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Can you grown Lion's mane on a coffee substrate or a mixture of coffee/hardwood pellets???
#GroCycleTV what strain of oysters are the "Pearl Oysters" that you sell in your grow kits?
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Does anybody know the name of the FRUITING CHAMBER being seen here? And the cost it . Thanks
Pink coloration indicate to temperature are to low. I found that brown discoloration could be attributed to both high or low humidity. But then again I'm not an expert but it is extremely frustrating when the results are not optimal.
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Question on the heat/pink hue issue: does this affect or detract from the health benefits? Has this been studied?
Same question on the CO2/coral appearance: does this affect or detract from health benefits?
We don't believe it does (pink hue) in terms of benefits per gram, but it would need a lab comparison to be sure... it may restrict growth so you'll have smaller mushrooms, so less by the fact that it's smaller... and less dense bodies will have less too using the same reasoning... we hoping to do some lab tests over the next year and will bring that to you all in a new video when we do! Thanks for watching...
Thanks for sharing. This is all new to me. Silly qn - why not just remove the block out of the bag and let the mushrooms fruit out all over it?
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Hi - and a great question. With limited food supply in the block (the sawdust acts as the food for the mushroom), it's best to concentrate the growth in small sections - this ensures larger, well-formed fruit bodies. If you let it fruit all over, you would get much smaller growth which would be harder to harvest. Also, with Lion's Mane, the mycelium is quite wispy, and doesn't bind the substrate together as well as, say, Shiitake or Reishi - you would find that the block would disintegrate...! You can top fruit it, so cut open the top of the bag and roll down to expose the whole of the top of the block, it would grow fine, but you would likely have smaller, less defined fruit bodies. Hope that helps!
Would you reccomend pastuerisation with lime for the lions mane? for example with a coffee & straw substrate.
That would work well. Lion's Mane isn't as strong as say, Oyster Mushrooms, so you're more likely to get competing organisms/contamination, but a higher % spawn rate can help with this. LM grows best with sterilised substrate, but it obviously takes more equipment/time/input etc. but with a higher spawn rate it does work with LowTech methods - just ensure your production as as squeaky clean as can be!
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What do you do with the stuff in the bag once you’ve taken your harvest off? Thanks!
We do three flushes per bag - once you've taken the fruit off, make sure you cut back to the substrate or you may get bacterial infection. You can then fruit from the same slit, or refold the bag and cut a new slit - just make sure it stays hydrated!
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Wish I understood all of this
Would really like to grow some but only on a small scale to begin with
Hi Brian - we'll be launching our grow kits soon, we're just testing these at the minute with some great results so keep in touch!! They're really easy to grow at home with no special equipment required!
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How often do you eat mushrooms and how has it contributed to your health? How much could one eat and sustain their food intake in daily?
how many grams of lions mane i can take of a one of theses big block? in one flush, 300, 500g?
Well, I'm a bit confused, if you put the substrat into the presser cooker, wont the plastic bag melt?
Hi! Thanks for watching!! If they are proper mushroom cultivation bags (Unicorn Bags or similar) you'll be okay - just make sure it doesn't run dry or accidentally set far too high, or yes, they will melt, but if they settings are correct then you should have no problem!
you say 20% bran in the substrate. Is that by weight or volume? Thanks
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This may be addressed in another comment, but where did you get the growing cabinet. I have heard negative things about growing mushrooms indoors, but I live in an apartment so have no other options.
Hello! Thanks for watching... have a look here: firstbuild.com/inventions/mella/
They are an "investment", but we've found them to be very, very reliable, and watching mushrooms grow is definitely more fun that watching TV!!
This may be a stupid question ( I haven't grown my own mushrooms so don't come for me). Couldn't you mix the leftover substrate from the older mushroom grow bags into the new substrate to colonize the next bag? With newly available nutrients, would the mycelium network continue to grow? Is it really necessary to use agar plates?
You can in theory - although it can weaken the mix, and can leave you open to introducing contaminants... if you do try it, and it's always worth experimenting, let us know how you get on!! :-)