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)
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”