Stockport Gourmet mushrooms and foraging

11/12/2017

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https://www.facebook.com/TheLionsManeMushroomCompany/

Offering everything Lion's mane and also other cultivated mushrooms and supplies.

08/23/2017

I'll tell you why these petri dishes are better than everyone else's. Because they are individually sealed, so You can just pull one out of the fridge and use it whenever you like. Most places that sell them package them together, so you have to open the package, get one out, close the package, and hope you didn't contaminate the others. You also have a clean place to put the dish after you inoculate it, back in the baggie. They come with a 6" piece of parafilm too, PLUS they are only $1/pc. 20 fits in a regional rate box A (from 43056) and 40 fits in a medium flat-rate, $12.40 continental US

05/31/2017

A common question people ask me is, "How hard are these kits to grow?" The answer is, they are so easy, you probably don't have to do ANYTHING. I ripped this bag when I was shaping it to fit in a box (one way I save you a lot of money on shipping), so I set it on the floor in the laboratory. I looked down yesterday and noticed it had found the hole. No misting, no humidity tent, no fruiting chamber. I literally didn't touch this block a single time. Granted, it was on the basement floor, which stays pretty cool (probably 65-70f max.) Long answer short, it is very easy to get lots of mushrooms with very little effort (these are ELM A strain Pleurotus ostreatus)

05/19/2017

Wanted to share this picture from my good friends at https://www.facebook.com/foxfarmforage/ who clearly have a white thumb and achieve some amazing results with my wild cloned lions mane culture. -with Amy Hess Fox and James Fox

04/21/2017

This is what we ended up with for our 1 day a year morel crawl. I left 10 with dad, and 84 left. By no means a record year, but still worth the effort

04/14/2017

When you are happy, I am happy! :D

11/05/2016

I should go around the groups and retrieve all of my pics that never got to this page. Anyway, this is Calocybe indica, aka "milky mushroom" , a warm weather species that grows in subtropical/tropical climates, but will fruit down to about 65f is you insist. Makes some pretty huge mushrooms

10/13/2016

I’m finally getting things fired back up here so I am making a list of what I will be running. I am not going to do as many as I used to. Several species/strains I sold 1 or 2 times in a year and it just isn’t worth it to keep them going to only sell them so little
1.VDE01 Pink oyster Pleurotus djamar
2. ?? blue oyster Pleurotus columbinus
3.ELM A pearl oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus)
4. WELLINGTON pearl oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus)
5.BSOY2 phoenix oyster (Pleurotus pulmonarius)
6. SWORDBELT pioppino (Cyclocybe aegerita)
7. LB’s lion’s mane (Hericium erinaceus)
8. ?? turkey-tail (Tremetes versicolor)
9. LB’s wine cap (Stropharia rugosoannulata)
10. LB’s deadman’s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha)
11. AZ maitake (Grifola frondosa)
12. SCL reishi mushroom (Ganoderma “lucidum”)
13. plastic eating fungus (Pestilotiopsis microspora)
14. landscape morel (Morchella rufobrunnea)
15. Pack-Dee’s Milky mushroom (Calocybe indica)
16. am-g14 shiitake (Leintinula edodes)
17. 3782 shiitake (Lentinula edodes)
18.LB's Agaricus campestris (meadow mushroom)
19. LB's Fistulina hepatica (beefsteak fungus)

I have a few more coming in or cloned that I hopefully will be adding shortly. prices are as follows;
petri dish/slant/lc $6
grainspawn 2.5 lbs $10
grainspawn 7.5 lb $25
2 lb sawdust spawn/fruiting bag $6
5 lb sawdust spawn/fruiting bag $12

these items are 100% guaranteed aseptic, sterilized before inoculation, and the sawdust bags are supplemented 20% dry weight with rice bran. Can be fruited or used as spawn for plugging logs, making beds or totem poles. Comes with instructions (2pages small font) for fruiting or making an outdoor bed (for species that aren't fruited indoors like morels and winecaps). Tell me which instruction sheet you want :D
I am still planning to sell supplies, depending on availability, you’ll just have to ask me
EVERY ORDER IS SUBJECT TO $1.50 processing fee. It pays for the label, the ink, padded envelopes, tape, ect. You will usually recoup this in shipping because I try a lot harder than most people to pack it efficiently and find the lowest price shipping method. YOU PAY SHIPPING actual amount

12/18/2015

If you are as interested as I am in mushrooms, consider Mushroom the journal. Full of great articles on collecting and taxonomy, and brand new, cultivation articles by your truly. For subscription information go to http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/about-2/subscribe/
or contact Leon Shernoff on FB

09/02/2015

"maitake" or hen of the woods (Grifola frondosa) can be cultivated year-round indoors

05/03/2015

My first run on these black poplar mushrooms is looking pretty good (Agrocybe aegerita) now in the genus Cyclocybe