Growing & Cultivation

Liquid culture magic mushrooms cultivation is currently the most discussed technique on r/unclebens and the Shroomery — and for good reason. A liquid culture (LC) is simply live mycelium suspended in a nutrient solution, and it lets you skip the slowest, riskiest part of the growing process: spore germination.

In this guide you will learn exactly what liquid culture is, why experienced growers prefer it over spore syringes, how to make your own from scratch, and how to use it to inoculate grain jars. Whether you start from a ready-made LC syringe or build your own medium, this method will speed up your grows and cut contamination risk significantly.

In this guide: Everything you need to know about the laminar flow hood — how it works, when to use it over a still air box, a step-by-step usage guide, and best practices to keep contamination out of your cultivation work.

New to sterile technique? Start with our guides on how to use a spore print and how to make agar plates. For the full sterilization picture, see how to sterilize cultivation materials.

A spore swab is a sterile cotton swab pre-loaded with magic mushroom spores from a single strain. Each pack contains two individually sealed swabs — open one, and it is ready to use immediately. A spore swab is the most precise and hygienic way to work with spores, and it has now replaced the spore syringe in our collection.

You want big, healthy mushrooms. A thermo heating mat can help you get them — especially in winter. But if you use the mat the wrong way, it can destroy your grow kit instead of helping it.

This guide shows you exactly how to use your thermo mat the right way, step by step.

The right light for a mushroom grow kit is one of the most common questions we get from new growers. Do you need a special lamp, or does a bright spot in your living room do the job? Fortunately, the answer is simpler than most people expect. This guide explains exactly how light works at each stage of mushroom cultivation, what kind of light works best, and when indirect sunlight is already more than enough.

Good to know: all ready-to-grow kits in our shop are already fully colonized and past the incubation phase. In other words, from the moment your kit arrives, you are in the fruiting stage — and that is precisely where light starts to matter.

We’ve all been there: you set up your grow box in the grow bag with water, follow all the steps, and after 10, 11, 12 days you start wondering if anything is ever going to happen.

Don’t panic. Magic mushroom grow kits are living organisms, not machines. Every kit and every strain can behave a bit differently. In this guide we explain when a kit is simply lazy, when it is unhappy because of the conditions, and when you are dealing with a real sleeping kit that needs a wake‑up call.