Gourmet mushroom liquid culture for home growers
Living, isolated mycelium of 16 culinary and functional species. Each 10 ml luer-lock syringe ships with a sterile needle and an alcohol pad, and starts growing in sterilized grain right away, with no germination wait.
Isolated liquid culture
Genetically consistent mycelium, so every jar you inoculate grows the same way.
Faster than spores
Mycelium is already growing, so grain colonizes days sooner than with a spore syringe.
Buy 3, get 1 free
Add any 4 cultures to your cart and the lowest-priced one is free.
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7 species
Oyster mushrooms
8 species
Specialty gourmet
Functional
Functional mushrooms
Start with a proven grower
Not sure which to grow first?
Pink and Blue Oyster
Pink likes a warm room and Blue prefers it cool. Both colonize fast and fruit readily on straw or hardwood pellets.
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Lion's Mane
One white cascade on supplemented hardwood sawdust. Sear thick slices in butter for a texture close to crab.
Shop specialty
Wine Cap
The garden grower. Mix grain spawn into fresh hardwood chips in spring and look for burgundy caps from summer into fall.
Shop specialtyFrom syringe to skillet in three stages
1. Inoculate
Shake the syringe, wipe the injection port with alcohol, and add 1 to 3 ml of culture to a sterilized grain jar or an all-in-one grow bag.
2. Colonize
Keep it at room temperature and out of direct light. White mycelium spreads through the grain in one to four weeks, depending on the species.
3. Fruit and harvest
Give the colonized block fresh air and high humidity. Pick when the caps open and cook them the same day.
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About Mush Love Genetics
Cultures from a team that loves mushrooms
We are a mushroom culture company based in Denver, Colorado. Every syringe holds an isolated culture of one species, prepared in a sterile lab environment, labeled by species, and shipped with tracking.
If a syringe arrives damaged or contaminated, or shows no growth in properly sterilized grain, we send a free replacement under our replacement policy.
Your first harvest starts with one syringe
Grow notes and recipes
How to grow wine cap mushrooms in a garden wood chip bed
Wine cap is the easiest gourmet mushroom to grow outdoors. This guide covers turning a liquid culture syringe into bed spawn, building a wood chip bed, caring for it, and harvesting large burgundy...
Gourmet mushroom varieties for home growers, compared by flavor and difficulty
Oysters, lion’s mane, shiitake, maitake, enoki, wine cap, and more, compared side by side. See how each one tastes, how hard it is to grow, and which one to start with.
How to cook home-grown gourmet mushrooms, variety by variety
Each gourmet mushroom has a best cooking method. Here is how to cook oyster, king oyster, shiitake, pioppino, maitake, enoki, and chestnut mushrooms, and how to store, freeze, and dry what you...
Gourmet mushroom liquid culture for home cultivation
Mush Love Genetics sells gourmet mushroom liquid culture for home growers. Each 10 ml luer-lock syringe holds living mycelium from a single isolated culture, suspended in sterile nutrient broth. Inject it into a sterilized grain jar or an all-in-one grow bag and it starts colonizing right away. Because the culture is already growing and genetically consistent, it colonizes faster and more evenly than a spore syringe.
Oyster liquid cultures are the easiest place to start. Blue, Pink, Golden and Pearl Oyster colonize quickly and fruit on pasteurized straw or hardwood. King Oyster and Black Pearl grow thick, meaty stems, and Elm Oyster grows large, firm caps.
For the kitchen, Lion’s Mane, Shiitake, Chestnut, Pioppino and Maitake grow on supplemented hardwood sawdust. Wine Cap grows outdoors in wood-chip beds, Enoki fruits in cold conditions, and Nameko and Reishi round out the collection. The Grow Guide lists the substrate and fruiting temperature for every species we sell.