Description
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About this Kit
Complete Kit: Everything you need is included—just add water and follow the simple instructions.
This kit uses a special Master’s Mix—a blend of sawdust, soy pellets, and water. It’s inoculated with about 300 grams of organic rye or millet grain spawn to give your mushrooms the best start.
We keep things simple and affordable by sending you a fresh, made-to-order bag, just like real mushroom farms use. No fancy boxes, no sitting in cold storage for weeks. This helps keep your cost down by $10; we pass that saving directly to you. We call these kits ‘almost ready to fruit’.
Humidity: Maintain high humidity (90–95 %) during pinning and fruiting; a humidifier or frequent misting helps.
Light: Indirect, diffuse light is fine (400–1,200 lux); avoid direct sunlight.
Air: Provide moderate fresh-air exchange to prevent CO₂ buildup, but avoid too strong drafts that dry the surface.
Storage: Unopened kits can stay a few weeks in a cool, dark place; yield may decline with storage time.
Important: This Item Can NOT be shipped to WA
Lion’s Mane Claw Heat Tolerant -Why it’s Special
This heat-tolerant strain of Lion’s Mane has been selected to fruit at higher temperatures than typical strains, making it more forgiving in warmer climates. Some suppliers claim it has been fruited in temperatures above 30 °C. Its morphology often shifts toward more robust, claw-like or pom-pom clusters in warmer conditions.
In terms of substrate, Lion’s Mane does best on hardwood sawdust (oak, maple, beech) supplemented with bran or wheat middlings. Some growers also use logs or wood chips for longer-term fruiting. Under lab conditions, optimal vegetative growth for Hericium has been observed around 25 °C, with growth possible between 20–30 °C.
Culinary & medicinal: Lion’s Mane is prized for its mild, seafood-like flavour and rich texture, often compared to lobster or crab. It’s also celebrated for its neurotrophic compounds (hericenones, erinacines) which are studied for supporting nerve growth, cognition, and nervous system health.
Step-by-step Instructions & Post-Harvest Care
IMPORTANT- Check the fruiting temperature when you buy a kit and ensure you can provide it with the temperature it needs (for this strain: 18–32 °C).
Step 1 – Let It Grow (3 Weeks)
*Take the bag out of its packaging and remove the tape holding the folded bag.
*Stand it upright so the white filter patch is unrestricted on the top, this is where the mycelium in the bag breathes from. Do not cut the bag for fruiting yet.
Please keep it away from direct sunlight, windows, fans, AC, or a wardrobe.
Let it sit like this for 3 whole weeks from the inoculation date on the label.
💡 Tip for First-Timers: Lion’s Mane colonisation tends to be slower or more subtle than oyster mushrooms; you may not see bright white growth early on. Wait for at least 80–100 % colonisation (or dense white mat) before triggering fruiting.
Need to Wait? If you’re not ready to start fruiting after the 3 weeks, you can store the bag in the fridge for up to a month. Do not store it in the fridge until the bag is fully colonised.
Step 2 – Time to Fruit
After colonisation is complete, it’s time to fruit — this strain tolerates higher temps, but careful control is still key.
Follow these steps:
1. Cut / Expose: Make slits or open the bag where the fruiting is intended; exposing substrate helps primordia formation.
2. Humidity & Mist: Maintain high humidity (~90–95 %) and mist the surroundings (avoid direct misting on teeth).
3. Harvest: Pins to harvestable “teeth” structures typically take 5–10 days (or more in warm conditions). Harvest before yellowing. You can often get 2–3 flushes with proper rest and hydration between flushes.
Common Mistakes to avoid
Overheating: Even though this is a heat-tolerant strain, excessive heat (>32 °C) can stress the mycelium and reduce yields or cause malformed fruit. Low humidity: Lion’s Mane’s “teeth” are especially vulnerable to drying — insufficient humidity leads to short, stubby growth or aborted pins. Poor fresh air exchange: Without enough CO₂ removal, growth becomes fuzzy or stretched; too much airflow dries the surface.
What to do if pins form inside the bag:
Don’t worry. Just ignore the internal pins. Gently fold the top of the bag to push out excess air, cut a small “X” in the side of the bag (where you want the mushrooms to grow), and begin misting that spot daily. Mushrooms will start fruiting from that cut. The internal pins will eventually be aborted naturally, as they don’t have space to grow.
Checkout out our fine Misting Spray Bottle to produce tiny droplets and keep humidity high. The size of droplets formed can easily be evaporated , this constant evaporation signals mycelium to pin.
Want to Learn More?
This kit introduces you to Stage 3: Fruiting, the final step in mushroom growing.
To explore all three stages (including how mushrooms grow from spores to harvest), check out our
Educational Mushroom Growing Kit.
Checkout all the Mushroom Growing kits Available in Our Spray and grow 3 Kg range.
Could not fruit the bag, or was it contaminated? Send us a photo or call us, and we will help you resolve the issue.
