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Grow Your Own Reishi

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Grow Your Own Reishi

8 reviews
  • $25.00

Difficulty: Beginner

Reishi mushroom kits are one of the easiest of all of our Grow Your Own kits. They are very reliable producers and require next to no upkeep. They live their entire life-cycle within their bag (do not open the bag!). They grow very slowly but should have dramatic growth patterns within 1 year. 

Cooking: Reishi mushrooms are intensely bitter and woody and usually aren't considered culinary unless harvested very young. However, we do recommend throwing a slice or two of dried reishi into soup stock, much like you'd use a bay leaf, to infuse the broth with its medicinal properties. You may also choose to incorporate reishi into medicinal teas or tinctures.

Properties: Known commonly as the 'Mushroom of Immortality' in Chinese, Reishi is a highly esteemed medicinal mushroom thought to promote longevity and overall health. Studied most for its ability to boost the immune system, Reishi extracts stimulate T-cell action, Natural Killer cell activity, and Dendritic cell maturation (Gao, 2004). Other pharmacological effects of Reishi extract include the following: anti-infammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, reduces blood pressure, lowers cholesterol levels, promotes anti-tumor activity, and acts as a central depressant to relax muscles (Hobbs, 1995; Gao et al., 2014).  

Directions

1) Your Reishi grow kit is an amended sawdust block that has been completely colonized by Reishi mushroom mycelium. Reishi mushroom is one of the easier species to grow indoors as you simply allow the block to produce the mushrooms inside the bag. DO NOT OPEN THE BAG!

2) Keep your Reishi kit out of direct sunlight in an area that is between 55 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Mushroom pinsets (baby mushrooms) will begin to form within the first month or two of purchasing the kit. The inside of the bag is like a terrarium that will provide the mushroom proper air exchange and humidity. This kit needs ambient light to grow properly. Make sure you don’t put the kit someplace where there isn’t any ambient light.

3) Reishi grows extremely slow. You may harvest it early when the Reishi antlers are only a few inches tall, or allow it many more months of growth to achieve more interesting growth patterns. As the antlers hit the top of the bag they will start to twirl back around themselves which can create other-worldly mushroom sculptures. We’ve allowed our own blocks to grow for more than six months in some instances with dramatic results!

4) If you plan on harvesting your Reishi, simply remove the bag and cut the individual antlers off the sawdust block. Reishi is a bitter and woody medicinal mushroom. You may dehydrate and use the antlers in tea, or create tinctures from them by macerating and steeping them in 100 proof alcohol for a month or more (directions for double-extract tincture making can be easily found online!) Alternatively, you may choose to keep your Reishi antlers on the sawdust block and allow the whole kit to dry out. You can then use your Reishi kit as a table centerpiece or natural sculpture! Just remove the plastic bag and keep the kit someplace warm and dry for 2-3 weeks.

*IF YOU PLAN ON MAKING TEA OR TINCTURE FROM YOUR HOME-GROWN MUSHROOMS IT IS BEST TO START WITH A SMALL AMOUNT TO SEE HOW YOUR BODY RESPONDS, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS YOUR FIRST TIME CONSUMING THIS SPECIES!*

Other Reishi products:
Reishi Tincture
Reishi Log Kit
Reishi Grain Spawn
Reishi Plug Spawn
Reishi Sawdust Spawn
Reishi Cultures

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01/15/2021
Jean
United States United States
Easy and fun!

This Reishi kit could not have been any easier! I literally put it on a shelf and ignored it and it’s growing very well!

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01/10/2021
Siobhan
United States United States
Excellent success, great reishi kit!

This is my first experience with Reishi and I couldn’t be happier. Within a week or so after exposing the block to the light, I started getting pins. I now have 3” antlers growing and it’s extremely fun to watch them keep inching up. There was absolutely no work at all involved in getting this kit to grow successfully. Excellent kit!

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01/02/2021
Patricia R.
United States United States
Reishi

Delivery took a couple weeks and when it arrived it was fully colonized but had some sort of issue to where it completely decolonized inside the bag. During the time that it started decolonizing I had emailed north spore and let them know what was going on and to see if this was right bc it was first time I’ve grown Reishi. Before I even asked they had already sent me out another one that was to me in a week and half and having wonderful results with this bag! Cannot wait to harvest and get some more. Wonderful company to work with

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12/07/2020
Gordon P.
Happy Camper

The reishi ''kit'' I purchased is doing fine and is still growing. It could not be any easier to grow! I plan on leaving the bag closed for a few more weeks and am anxious to see how it turns out.

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11/24/2020
Frans J.
we have lift off!

Several weeks in, and there are multiple little mushrooms starting to grow off the top of the block. Looking forward to continued growth and eventually the crazy colored "antlers". Easy, no fuss kit. The kids enjoy checking in on them each morning. Will likely be purchasing other mushroom grow kits soon. TY North Spore!

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