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Price: $12.50
Our Cordyceps Militaris is the HIGHMILE22A strain, a first-generation isolate selected for fast colonization and heavy pinning on rice. It's the bright orange, club-shaped Cordyceps and the only member of the genus that's practical to grow at home: no insects, no bulk substrate, just rice in jars and a light.
Quart jars of rice under a cheap LED strip are a complete setup. No monotub, chamber or humidifier.
Wild Cordyceps parasitizes moth pupae. In cultivation it fruits straight from cooked rice; no insects at any stage.
HIGHMILE22A was chosen for aggressive colonization and dense, consistent clubs.
Let the syringe reach room temperature, then shake it gently to break up and spread the mycelium through the broth.
Flame the needle until it glows, let it cool a few seconds, and wipe the port on your sterilized rice jar with the alcohol pad.
Use 2–3cc per quart jar of prepared rice. One 10cc syringe inoculates about 3–4 jars.
Keep jars at 70–75°F in the dark until the rice is solid white, then move them to 12 hours of light a day at 50–70°F.
Light is not optional: colonize in the dark, but once the rice is white it needs a daily light cycle. Without it the fruits stay pale, thin and stunted instead of turning orange.
From our lab to your grainRun it into jars with wide-mouth cultivation lids or your own lids with self-healing injection ports. Spare 16G needles and sterile Luer Lock syringes are sold separately.
Use 2–3cc per quart jar of prepared rice. One 10cc syringe inoculates roughly three to four jars. Using more doesn't speed colonization much; it just uses up the syringe.
About 16 days at 70–75°F, then roughly 15 days of fruiting under light. Expect about a month from injection to harvest. Cooler fruiting temperatures give denser, better-colored clubs but slow things down.
Cooked white or brown rice in jars, usually with added nutrition. Cordyceps fruits directly from the colonized rice, so there's no spawn-to-bulk step and no casing layer. Rice contaminates easily, so sterile technique matters more than usual.
Almost always too little light. C. militaris needs a daily light cycle to develop its orange color and proper club shape. Once the rice is fully colonized, give it indirect light or an LED on about 12 hours on, 12 hours off.
Refrigerate it at 35–45°F in the bag it shipped in and never freeze it; freezing ruptures the cells and kills the culture. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before you inject.
Liquid culture is living mycelium from an isolated culture, so it skips germination, colonizes days faster and gives genetically consistent fruits. Spores have to germinate and pair up first, which is slower and more variable from grow to grow.
Liquid culture is living mycelium, so every syringe leaves our lab in a foil-lined insulated mailer. The insulation buffers it against summer heat in a delivery truck and against sub-freezing winter temperatures, so it arrives viable either way.
When it arrives: refrigerate the syringe at 35–45°F until you're ready to inoculate. Never freeze it. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before use.
Sold as a mycological culture for cultivation. Cordyceps Militaris is the subject of ongoing scientific research, but nothing on this page is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Very healty and very fast growing culture. Very happy customer.
Will update how they grow maybe when I let them flush in brown rice but I am so happy with their customer service and deals!
This Cordyceps liquid culture grew beautifully into nice thick mycelium. I just popped it into the fruiting chamber today. Very happy with it!