Popular Edible Liquid Culture 5 Pack | Mushroom Liquid Culture

About This Mushroom Liquid Culture Our Popular Edible 5 Pack is a premium mushroom liquid culture: live, lab-verified mycelium suspended in sterile nutrient broth and ready to inoculate your grow medium. Each set ships with sterile needles for clean, reliable transfers. Popular Edible Liquid Culture 5 Pack — Product Summary Five 10–12cc liquid culture syringes Includes: Portobello (Agaricus bisporus), Shiitake Warm Weather (Lentinula edodes), Lion's Mane Warm Weather (Hericium erinaceus), Chestnut (Pholiota adiposa), Pioppino (Agrocybe aegerita) Each syringe contains viable mycelium in sterile nutrient broth Store liquid culture syringes at normal room temperature in the original packaging for 6 or more months. Ships with sterile needles Popular Edible Liquid Culture 5 Pack — Pack Overview The Popular Edible Mushroom Cultures 5 Pack brings together five of the most widely recognized edible mushrooms in the world, species that most people already know by name from the grocery store, restaurant menus, and health food aisles. Portobello, Shiitake, Lion's Mane, Chestnut, and Pioppino each have a distinct cultivation pathway, a different substrate preference, and a different set of fruiting requirements, which makes this pack as useful for building cultivation experience across multiple species types as it is for anyone who simply wants to grow mushrooms they already know and enjoy eating. Popular Edible Liquid Culture 5 Pack — Included Species Portobello (Agaricus bisporus) Liquid Culture Portobello, Crimini, and Button mushrooms are all the same species at different stages of maturity, Agaricus bisporus is the most commercially produced mushroom in the world. It requires a compost-based substrate and a peat-lime casing layer rather than the hardwood sawdust approach that works for most other species in our catalog. The grain spawn step is the same, but the substrate preparation is different and worth understanding before you start. Portobello — Out-Grow Lab Notes Parameter Out-Grow Notes Culture medium LME + dextrose, 2% + 2% in distilled water Substrate Composted manure or straw base; peat-lime casing layer required to trigger pinning Pinning trigger Casing layer application — distinct from all other species in this pack Difficulty Intermediate — different substrate approach than hardwood species Inoculation rate 2 to 3cc per quart of sterilized grain or hardwood substrate Storage life 6 or more months at normal room temperature Portobello Taxonomy Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Agaricales Family: Agaricaceae Genus: Agaricus Species: Agaricus bisporus Shiitake Warm Weather (Lentinula edodes) Liquid Culture Shiitake grain spawn produced from liquid culture colonizes supplemented hardwood sawdust blocks cleanly and produces consistent fruiting results. The warm weather strain covers the widest fruiting temperature range and is the most practical choice for most indoor cultivation setups. Shiitake Warm Weather — Out-Grow Lab Notes Parameter Out-Grow Notes Culture medium LME + dextrose, 2% + 2% in distilled water Fruiting temp 55 to 85°F Grain to substrate Colonized grain transfers well to supplemented hardwood sawdust Inoculation rate 2 to 3cc per quart of sterilized grain or hardwood substrate Storage life 6 or more months at normal room temperature Shiitake Warm Weather Taxonomy Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Agaricales Family: Omphalotaceae Genus: Lentinula Species: Lentinula edodes Lion's Mane Warm Weather (Hericium erinaceus) Liquid Culture Lion's Mane grain spawn from liquid culture is one of the cleanest and fastest-colonizing spawns we produce. It transfers to hardwood sawdust blocks with minimal contamination risk and produces reliable fruiting bodies under standard fruiting conditions. Good choice for cultivators building confidence with grain spawn methodology. Lion's Mane Warm Weather — Out-Grow Lab Notes Parameter Out-Grow Notes Culture medium LME + dextrose, 2% + 2% in distilled water Fruiting temp 65 to 80°F Grain colonization Fast and clean — one of the best grain colonizers in our catalog Inoculation rate 2 to 3cc per quart of sterilized grain or hardwood substrate Storage life 6 or more months at normal room temperature Lion's Mane Warm Weather Taxonomy Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Russulales Family: Hericiaceae Genus: Hericium Species: Hericium erinaceus Chestnut Mushroom (Pholiota adiposa) Liquid Culture Chestnut Mushroom colonizes grain cleanly and transfers well to supplemented hardwood sawdust. The cluster-forming fruiting habit produces visually appealing harvests and the caramel-brown caps have a mild nutty flavor that holds up well to cooking. It is a species that more North American cultivators should know. Chestnut Mushroom — Out-Grow Lab Notes Parameter Out-Grow Notes Culture medium LME + dextrose, 2% + 2% in distilled water Substrate Supplemented hardwood sawdust; oak-based substrates Fruiting temp 55 to 68°F Growth habit Cluster-forming — dense groups of fruiting bodies Inoculation rate 2 to 3cc per quart of sterilized grain or hardwood substrate Storage life 6 or more months at normal room temperature Chestnut Mushroom Taxonomy Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Agaricales Family: Strophariaceae Genus: Pholiota Species: Pholiota adiposa Pioppino (Agrocybe aegerita) Liquid Culture Pioppino grain spawn produces well on supplemented hardwood sawdust. The cluster-forming habit and firm texture make the harvests visually distinctive and the species is forgiving enough in cultivation to work well as a second or third species for cultivators expanding their grow. Pioppino — Out-Grow Lab Notes Parameter Out-Grow Notes Culture medium LME + dextrose, 2% + 2% in distilled water Substrate Supplemented hardwood sawdust Fruiting temp 55 to 75°F Inoculation rate 2 to 3cc per quart of sterilized grain or hardwood substrate Storage life 6 or more months at normal room temperature Pioppino Taxonomy Kingdom: Fungi Division: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes Order: Agaricales Family: Strophariaceae Genus: Agrocybe Species: Agrocybe aegerita Popular Edible Liquid Culture 5 Pack — Cultivation Overview Liquid culture to sterilized grain spawn is the first step for all five species in this pack. Portobello requires a different substrate approach than the other four, compost base and casing layer rather than hardwood sawdust. Lion's Mane and Shiitake are the fastest grain colonizers in the pack. All five syringes ship from our McConnell, Illinois lab ready to inoculate. 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