If you're not planning on using your kits straight away, place them in the fridge for up to 4-6 weeks.
If you're not planning on using your kits straight away, place them in the fridge for up to 4-6 weeks.
Blue Oyster is the TMC workhorse and one of our easiest and highest yielding mushrooms to grow. It produces big, dense clusters of beautiful steel blue mushrooms with thick caps and a great savoury flavour and meaty texture.
Difficulty: Easy
Speed: Fast
Temperature: 10 – 20°C
Humidity: 80 – 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 1000 ppm
Lions Mane has become hugely popular for both culinary and medicinal use, with a delicate meaty texture that makes it great for slicing into steaks, pan-frying, shredding, or using as a plant-based crab-style mushroom.
Difficulty: Easy
Speed: Fast
Temperature: 15 – 25°C
Humidity: 80 – 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 1000 ppm
One of the worlds most popular mushrooms, celebrated for their rich umami flavor and firm, meaty texture. Shiitake require a 3 month "browning" period, but we've done the hard part for you. Simply remove the bag, keep moist, and let the magic happen.
Difficulty: Medium
Speed: Fast
Temperature: 12 – 20°C
Humidity: 90– 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 1000 ppm
King Brown (aka. King Oyster) are famous for their thick, edible white stems and mild savoury flavor. Because they retain their structure when cooked, they are frequently used as a meat substitute in plant based cooking.
Difficulty: Medium
Speed: Slow
Temperature: 12 – 20°C
Humidity: 90– 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 2000 ppm
Reishi is known for it's medicinal use, with evidence of human use stretching far back into history. When grown in a high CO₂ environment, like a sealed grow bag, they produce branching, alien looking “antler” formations instead of the classic conk.
Difficulty: Easy
Speed: Slow
Temperature: 18–27°C
Humidity: 90 – 95% RH
CO₂: High CO₂ encourages antler formation
White Oyster is a big, beautiful Oyster variety that can produce some giant clusters when conditions are right. One of our highest yielding Oyster strains and a favourite of our wholesale customers.
Difficulty: Easy
Speed: Fast
Temperature: 15 – 22°C
Humidity: 90 – 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 1000 ppm
Black Pearl is a beautiful hybrid oyster developed in Japan. It combines traits from King Oyster and Pearl Oyster and produces dense clusters with thick stems and dark caps, giving you the thick stems of a King with the tender texture of an Oyster mushroom.
Difficulty: Medium
Speed: Slow
Temperature: 15 – 20°C
Humidity: 90 – 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 1000 ppm
A highly prized culinary mushroom famous for their rich, earthy flavour with slightly nutty undertones and long slender stems. Pioppino can tolerate higher CO₂ than most mushrooms, making the sealed grow bag the perfect growing chamber.
Difficulty: Easy
Speed: Slow
Temperature: 13 – 20°C
Humidity: 90 – 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 2000 ppm
Pink Oyster is a fast-growing, eye-catching warm-weather Oyster mushroom that loves the heat, making it a great choice for the warmer months when temperatures are a little higher. BLOCK CANNOT BE REFRIGERATED.
Difficulty: Easy
Speed: Fast
Temperature: 18 – 30°C
Humidity: 85 – 95% RH
CO₂: keep below 1000 ppm