Root Mushroom Farm- Mushroom Liquid Cultures/Shiitake(lentinula edodes)

These are quality liquid cultures. I’ve ordered the shiitake and lions mane. This is for the lions mane. When I received mine they were full of thick healthy spores. I inoculated several rye grain jars and they grew very fast. Shake your jars in between colonization. Once fully colonized they even started trying to fruit in the jar (keep lions mane in the dark- light is a trigger for pinning). I was able to transfer some grain spawn to an oak filled bucket and made grain to grain transfers with other jars. The photo is a pic of my second gen grain to grain. Wish I got a pic of the syringe but I c didn’t. Can tell you it was choked full of spores- no contaminants and they were alive! It arrived quickly. I wouldn’t hesitate to order syringes from Root Farms again.

I am a beginner. Before I bought this liquid culture, I wanted to be sure I was able to use it correctly. I had already grown a box kit of Shitake from another company. I practiced cloning and collecting spores to both agar and different liquid culture recipes. I saw what worked and didn't work. I felt I was finally ready to try Root Mushroom Farm Shitake liquid culture. It looked alright with the packaging, but not very sturdy. The mycelium was very sparse in the tube. I thought it should have been thicker, but again, my first time. I divided it into 3 jars of liquid culture. Absolutely nothing grew. NOTHING.

The Shiitake liquid culture arrived on time, was nicely colonized and produced a good grain spore. That's about all one could ask for.

This is a great, simple way to start growing mushrooms. I had a problem with the original syringe (likely heat during shipping or user error, not the sellers fault) and they were very responsive, immediately sending me out another after I contacted them. The mushrooms are delicious and we have more than we can eat now.

There was an okay amount of culture here in the syringe, based on how it compares with my other syringes it suggests it was heavily contaminated. Purchased another syringe (lions mane) and had similar problem but was able to cultivate.

I ordered maitake and shiitake from them and one of the shiitake syringes was damaged from shipping. I promptly got a replacement. Thank you. Great service.

nothing came up, 100s wasted on these syringes. the only thing the came up was another kind of oyster mushroom that i never ordered and was told it was mislabeled syringe.

I ordered blue pink and king oyster I just inoculated some jars two days ago and I’m already seeing strong mycelium growth great product so far thank you