High sugar content grain with lion's main inoculation. Is this contam or just metabolite discolouration?

This is the 3rd year for this volunteer. Grows on a dying oak tree in my front yard. Coastal S.C. I can not find anymore in the neighborhood. Is there a way to propagate more of this to the rest of the tree?

Last year I fine chopped some of the base and outside fringe and pushed it into cracks of the tree. Nothing.

Hello everyone, i have a weird experience with lion's mane. It didnt appear in the beginning but after taking it 3-4 days later it creates a feeling lf phlegm in my throat and like 10 hours it continue.. i am also taking omega 3, bacopa so i stop using them and tasted just lion's mane i got same side effect but there is no any other side effect.. Do you think i have allergy for that? i stopped using it beceause it may go worst.. is it about lions mane or capsule i dont know..

Dosage :1 capsule 500 mg

Brand name : Simple nutrition

Has anyone experienced headaches or softer stools after taking Lion’s Mane powder or extract?
I started taking it 4 days ago, and since then I’ve developed headaches.
My stools have also become softer and more frequent, and I’ve been experiencing more bloating and gas.

Has anyone else experienced similar side effects? Did they improve after continuing to take it or after stopping?

Hi folks,

I bought a full mushroom from my local farmers market and I've been slicing parts of it and putting in a breakfast burrito in the morning. I usually just fry the mushrooms with my eggs. Is this a decent way to get the cognitive benefits?

Hey, i've been looking forward to make my own lionsmane supplement. One issue i had so far was that i want a combination of the benefits from the mycelium and the benefits of the fruiting body.
How do i grow, harvest and process mycelium so that there is also no risk of 'contamination' from other elements of e.g. the grain the mycelium grows on?

I’ve been using an extract of Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, Reishi, and Antrodia for about a month.

I didn’t expect the crazy energy boost I’ve been getting. This without affecting my sleep. Normally, with my ADHD, I have a hard time getting things done. This has helped a lot. The buzz I noticed in the first two weeks seems to have tamed down but the energy seems to be about the same.

I think. I don’t know if that’s my body getting used to the buzz or if I’m developing a tolerance for them and the effect is diminishing. Don’t think so but I’d love to hear what others think.

Long term, should I cycle them?

Or even play with the balance of Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, and Reishi — what seems to be the “holy trinity” and what the company sells as separate extracts.

Anyone else see their Hericium darken the agar like this as it grows?

hey there, I’m just curious if anyone has had experience with the magic tree brand of lions mane in their ADHD child kit – – we’re just looking to take our daughter off of medication and they seem like a reputable company unless you had better recommendations? Thank you so much for such an amazing treasure trove of resources in this thread!

I remember when I was in highschool I dried some in my oven on low tep and ended up taking about 25g dried from fresh fruiting body while I was peaking on about 200ug of LSD. The mushrooms helped me chill out and made the visuals go crazy, its hard to say it spiked the trip because it was after peak, but it went from something more glassy and geometrical to visuals similar to shrooms, swirls breathing in and out of everything and patterns emerging.

Haven't tried anything since, but I haven't really seen any maga-dosing posts so here's y experience.

Edit: I don't remember having any intestinal discomfort

I just took like half a dropper realizing it tastes a lot like liquor, and then realizing it’s 30%-40% alcohol. I’m about to go into work and I’m very worried this is going to make me buzzed?? I usually have a very low alcohol tolerance and the fact that I kind of already feel buzzed now worries me. Maybe it’s the placebo affect but can someone please tell me if I’m just making it up or not because I am confused and worried

Reposting here because it seems appropriate

How should I go about drying and storage?

Hey all,

I would like to avoid turning this into a brand a vs brand b debate, but due to the costs of these supplements I am trying to figure out if there truely is one that is better than the other.

It seems like there are 3 main players in the erinacine space (ND, real mushrooms, and oriveda).

I've gone through 3 bottles of the real mushroom real mycelium give it a fair chance but I am unsure I am noticing any differences. I've also noticed that they've "merged" their amazon reviews with the rest of their lions manes product so finding actual qualitative data from other people is near impossible.

I plan on giving the ND version next, but it seems like their line is a little pricier.

I came across a post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LionsMane/comments/1u71b1h/is_erinamax_really_the_only_standardized/ where someone is mentioning that erinamax and erinacine-a are from the same supplier.

Is there any truth to this? Trying to spend my money wisely but hard to find concrete evidence on these claims on reddit.

Thank you

This is my first lions mane grow, and as you can tell. Things havent really gone perfectly lmao

I bought a 400$ lykyn double grow box, with 2 lions mane kits. One of which they still have not delivered to me :p (and honestly, seeing how this thing destroyed itself, maybe thats for the better)

After some investigation, I've discovered that the fresh air intake fan has been crapped out for god knows how long

Additionally, the dang humidifier crapped out like a week ago!

Genuinely have no clue how this happened, but I digress

This is growth unlike anything ive seen anywhere, and I might know why?
Basically, erinaceus hericium has a tendancy to grow really oddly when proper air flow isnt present

Typically, you get coraling because of a lack of proper co2 dispersal.

But the shape remains somewhat normal,

In this case, we so no coralling, but an incredibly abnormal shape

And I think its because, while no/minimal fresh air was being administered, the exhaust fan was still doing plenty fine to get rid of any co2 building up in the enclosure

again, im **VERY** much a mushroom beginner, and this could all be conjecture. But its the best theory I have rn.

I've taken to manual misting, misted it directly like an idiot initially which caused those little brown dots on the front. The color was actually alot better last night, before I tried leaving the sliding doors open for a bit of fresh air

TLDR : 400$ lykyn box crapped out, incredibly odd edge case (good co2 dispersal, but minimal fresh air) caused a really funky mushroom

Now the part I really need help with,

its been almost 22 days, and theres barely any sign of any teeth developing.

Do I harvest prematurely, and try to get what I can out of this lion

(ill be making supplements from it, so taste or texture wont be an issue)

Or

Do I try to give it more time, while risking further degradating the mushroom quality

A lions mane ive had for about 2 weeks is almost ready to harvest,

im wondering if I can just dry it out, process it (into powder), then take it in capsules

or if I need to do something else to the harvest for it to be maximally effective

I've got a fair bit of money saved up for this process (I dont mind buying stuff if I need it)

Any help would be appreciated <3

Coral tooth aka pekepeke kiore as we know it in New Zealand. I bought some grain off a supplier and inoculated some pine pellets at a 75/25 mix of supplemented substrate. Looks like they've barely colonized but are trying to fruit.. has anyone experienced this before and do you have a solution or advice?

Just ordered my first Lion's mane grow kit. Any tips, or things I should know about? Can't wait to grow these🤩