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Our Pink Lion's Mane is a wild-cloned Hericium erinaceus that we isolated for one trait: a soft rose blush on the fruit bodies. It grows exactly like standard Lion's Mane, with the same cascading spines, hardwood appetite and fast colonization, and we run it in limited batches.
Pink-tinted Lion's Mane is rare. Most growers have never seen one, and it stands out next to a standard white flush.
Same substrate, temperatures and timing as regular Lion's Mane. If you've grown one, you can grow this one.
Crab-like texture and mild sweetness, and it holds together when sliced into slabs and seared.
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 injection port with the included alcohol pad.
Use 2–3cc per quart jar or 3–5cc per 3–5 lb grain bag. One 10cc syringe inoculates about 2–4 containers.
Keep it at 70–75°F in the dark. Shake once at about 30% colonization to speed things up.
Harvest it young for color: the pink is strongest on young fruits and fades as they mature. Pick when the spines are well formed but before the edges start to yellow.
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 grain jar and 3–5cc per 3–5 lb spawn bag. One 10cc Pink Lion's Mane syringe inoculates roughly two to four containers. Using more doesn't speed colonization much; it just uses up the syringe.
About 10 days at 70–75°F, then roughly 14 days to harvest once fruiting conditions start. That's fast for a specialty culture.
Supplemented hardwood sawdust or Master's Mix. Like all Lion's Mane it's a hardwood specialist and does poorly on straw. Hardwood logs work outdoors but take much longer.
It's the same species, Hericium erinaceus, from an isolate selected for pink fruit bodies. Cultivation is identical; the difference is the color.
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. Pink Lion's Mane is the subject of ongoing scientific research, but nothing on this page is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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