2’ section of clean maple from a log drop, roughly 8” or so in diameter. inoculated last winter with totem method. Overwinter inoculation in the garage was a good move, I had a fully inoculated log in the spring letting me start a full 3 months earlier. Probably wouldn’t have gotten a harvest this year otherwise.
You can see these all came out of the spawn so I’m hoping to get some from the log itself next year. Time will tell.
Biggest ball is 4” or so across.
Very hype for these as I have never tasted them before. They’re supposed to be delicious and are suuuuper expensive at the store (30-40 usd a pound)
Gonna have to push back a little bit here. Lions mane taken in controlled and limited quantities can probably help with memory issues but eating an entire fruiting body or part of one is pretty irresponsible. For alot of people it might be harmless but it seems to trigger severe disassociative mental illness that's similar to people who have post-finderistride syndrome and can also really fuck with people's serotonin levels if taken in excess and can cause an overdose that creates sertonin syndrome similar to how taking too much molly or SSRIs can fuck your brain up in the wrong dose.
I support people taking Lions Mane diy style but be safe and keep it in small and controlled doses and if you start to feel weird then please stop.
see r/lionsmanerecovery for all the associated risks
Looks like crankery tbh. National Audubon society field guide to North American mushrooms classifies lions mane as a choice edible. Many people have foraged and eaten this species with no issues.
Could be that drying and powdering it and eating it every day provides higher doses but there’s nothing I’ve seen to indicate this species to be dangerous for culinary use.
I get where you're coming from but keep in mind that research on lion's mane cultivation is pretty recent and that it's affects aren't as really well understood as the effects of let's say asprin.
For the majority of people they are gonna get a nice tasty treat when eating lion's mane but for a noteworthy amount of people they are going to get horrific mental illness.
I think that sure some daily doses are probably too high for some people because we need a safe dosage recommendation and right now we don't have good research on that but also if you are incorporating this into your diet and eat this let's say 1-2 times a week at a dosage that's waaaaay bigger than a capsule (a fruiting body is obviously larger than pill form) then you have a similar risk.
I couldn’t get more than 1-2 meals a year out of my grow anyway. Mushrooms are mostly water, when you dehydrate these things they shrink to 50% of their size. Then powdering shrinks them even further. A couple of capsules of dried powdered mushrooms probably contains as much as my biggest fruit here. And that’s being taken probably daily. Totally different applications.
Also supplements in amerikkka are completely unregulated. Who the fuck knows what is being put in those capsules and labeled as “lions mane”
Omg. Wow. Yeah, my partner is already on ssris and I'm seeing the papers on this. Probably best not to mix.
Thanks for the heads up. I was just thinking about it culinarily.
I do not believe culinary use to be dangerous. I don’t want to be a debate pervert here but would need to see some reputable sources beyond a crank subreddit. There’s probably one of these for 5g
No worries, I love lions mane and I def want to experiment with it to help with my own brain injury so im def not a hater but its important to be careful :)