So you want to grow mushrooms
Everything you need to know before you buy, in one place. What you can grow, where to get your cultures, and exactly what happens from the day you inject to the day you harvest. By the end you won't have a question left.
Pick your starting size
Two all-in-one kits. Sterile, ready to use, beginner-friendly. Big Batch gives you over double the yield.
Big Batch
Double the substrate · For when you're hooked
The same all-in-one setup, scaled up. Over double the substrate for over double the harvest, with room to run a couple of cultures at once. The one most people come back for.
- 2.3kg all-in-one CVG + grain bag
- Humidity tent
- Step-by-step illustrated guide
- Direct DM access to us
- 1 month of the Hypha app, free
Standard
Compact · Perfect for first-timers
Sterilised CVG and milo grain, pre-loaded into a Unicorn bag with a humidity tent. Inject your culture, leave it alone, harvest in 6-8 weeks.
- 1.1kg all-in-one CVG + grain bag
- Humidity tent
- Step-by-step illustrated guide
- Direct DM access to us
- 1 month of the Hypha app, free
Where do I get the cultures?
Two routes, depending on what you're growing. These are independent vendors, nothing to do with Hypha, picked because the community rates them.
Gourmet Liquid Cultures
Live mycelium in a syringe. Inject it straight into your kit and you're away. This is what we'd recommend for a beginner, it gets going faster than spores and there's no guesswork.
- Liquid MushroomsVisit
Psilocybin Spores
For microscopy and identification purposes. Spore possession is legal in many regions for research; cultivation typically is not.
Hypha does not sell, supply, or facilitate the sale of psilocybin spores. Vendors listed independently. Cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms is illegal in most jurisdictions.
Whichever route you take, search the exact species and strain you want, read the seller's recent reviews, and go with someone people actually rate. A clean culture is the difference between an easy grow and a frustrating one.
How does it actually work?
Start to finish, with real timings and what to look for at each stage. It's less work than keeping a houseplant alive.
Inject
Day 0
Everything that matters happens in the first ten minutes, so slow down and stay clean. Wipe your hands and the table with alcohol. Shake the culture, run a flame over the needle until it glows, let it cool for a few seconds, then inject through the port. Reseal, write the date and species on the bag, and leave it somewhere warm and dark. That's the hard part done, and it wasn't hard.
Fully colonised
Week 2–4
The white keeps marching until the whole bag is solid, edge to edge, with no bare gaps. Don't rush it. Once it's fully white, give it a few more days to firm up before you do anything.
They fill out
+5–7 days
From pin to full mushroom is quick, often under a week. Near the end they can nearly double overnight, so have a look morning and night.
Human experience has shifted from production to consumption. We've lost touch with what it means to make the things we use. We take more than we give. Break more than we fix. Eat more than we grow. So we started growing our own. Now you can too.
The last few things
Do I need a sterile lab or special gear?+
No. Clean hands, a wiped-down table and the kit. That's the whole setup.
How long until I'm actually eating them?+
Roughly 6-8 weeks from injection to your first harvest, depending on the species.
Is it hard?+
No. If you can follow a recipe and keep things tidy for ten minutes, you'll manage this fine.
What if it gets contaminated?+
It's rare when you follow the steps. If it happens, message us and we'll sort it, and you're covered by the guarantee either way.
Can I really grow any mushroom?+
Any gourmet or medicinal species you can buy a culture for, yes. The kit stays the same, the culture changes.
Do I have to buy the culture separately?+
Yes, and that's on purpose. It's what lets one kit grow anything. The vendors we trust are linked above, so it's a two-minute job.
Start growing
You've seen how it works. Grab a kit, pick a culture, and you'll be harvesting in weeks. If you don't, your money back. The risk's on us.
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