North SporeOrganic Lion's Mane (100 ct) Mushroom Plugs for Logs | Premium Quality Mushroom Plug Spawn | Handmade in Maine, USA | Grow Gourmet Mushrooms Outdoors on Logs

Well preserved, healthy growth, and no contaminants noticed.

The eaze of growing them.Food.

Very excited about this

Not sure about the lingo, but I do know that the entire package should not look like a fuzzy bag of sticks. Couldn’t even see the plugs inside the bag. I wouldn’t purchase this product from this vendor.

This product is a bag of small wooden dowels that are inoculated with lion's mane mushroom spores. A spore is similar to a seed but it is microscopic and grows mushrooms. These products are meant to be stuck into a piece of wood or other similar growing medium to create your own lion's mane mushrooms at home. You can drill into a dead log and tap these dowels into the holes to completely inoculate the log and get your mushrooms. These dowels are very similar to the type found in IKEA style furniture, they just happen to be apparently "soaked" with lion's main spores.But unfortunately these dowels did not result in any mushrooms for me. I am pretty well experienced with mushrooms and I have grown them before with ease. I know lion's mane is a little bit trickier of a variety but so far the closest I've come to getting the mycelium to grow is the picture above, which also appears to be contaminated. I have tried the manufacturer's recommendation of sticking them into a piece of wood, I've also placed the dowels and the crumbs from the bag in Coco Coir, sterilized popcorn, and other grain mediums to see what would happen (above is sterilized wheat berries). I have not had any luck getting the mushrooms.I know this is a very difficult type of mushroom to grow on command, but I would have hoped to at least had a little bit of consistent growth. Not totally sure if I made some errors along the way but I have grown mushrooms before without any issues and I understand the conditions needed to make them grow.

Could be all my fault but my harvest is not Lions mane . It’s a polypore that took over. I saw no Lions main at all.As far as I can tell this mushroom is inedible with no medicinal use.

Tried to grow, but nothing came of it.

This strain grows fast and is quite tasty. I am using a mixture of barley and sawdust. The mushrooms fruit very fast and grow quite large as well.