Instructions for Growing Lion’s Mane and Turkey Tail

Step #1
– Open shipping box and remove white box with instructions. Don’t open the bag that comes inside the white box. You needn’t do anything at all, really, until colonization is complete. Colonization began at inoculation. So just leave the bag in the box and get it to a dark cool place, where it will live for two to three weeks. The temperature for this colonization phase should be 72 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step #2 – Wait 15 to 20 days until the liquid inside the bag (the substrate) has turned white and is a brick. When the bag looks like an all-white brick, the colonization is complete.
Step #3 – remove the bag from the box and on the side of the bag opposite the injection port, make an x slit about 2 to 4” long with a sharp knife or razor blade, trying not to cut into the brick.
Step #4 – Hydrate the brick. Set the brick with the slit side down in a bowl of water that might cover an inch or two of the brick, or more. Let it soak for 2 hours. The water is being absorbed through the bottom x slit you made. Step #5 – remove the brick from the water, turn it over so the slit side is up, and put it back in a dry spot near sunlight (leave the plastic in place) Step #6 – mist daily, at the opening where it will let water seep in. You will start to watch your mushrooms grow now. Step #7 – approximately two weeks from completion of colonization, you will be harvesting your mushrooms Step #8 – after harvest, repeat the process of rehydrating the brick in a bowl of water, the x-slit side down. Repeat the steps 5 thru 7, to get a second crop. Some people rehydrate again and get a third crop.