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Price: $27.99
Our Turkey Tail grow kit is a 5 lb block fully colonized with first-generation Trametes versicolor. Cut a few slits, keep it humid, and thin, fan-shaped caps with colorful concentric rings form over the following weeks. It's the longest-lived kit we sell and the only one that's happy in a shaded spot outdoors.
Three to five flushes spread over six or more months from one block.
Tolerates temperatures down to about 40°F, so a shaded, protected outdoor spot is a real option.
Tough and leathery rather than tender. Growers dry the caps, most often for tea.
The hard parts of mushroom growing (sterilization, inoculation and colonization) are done before the block ships. Your job is to trigger fruiting and keep the surface from drying out.
Make one or two slits in the bag as shown in the instructions. Turkey Tail fruits from the openings.
Hold humidity high, around 90%, while the first caps form. Mist daily, or use a tent indoors.
Indirect or low light is preferred. Keep it out of direct sun, wind and standing water.
Cut the fans once the colored rings are well defined, then taper humidity to 70–80% for the next flush.
This one tolerates cold: Turkey Tail handles temperatures as low as roughly 40°F, which makes a shaded, protected outdoor spot a real option. It still fruits best at 60–75°F.
Get more from your kitA Tabletop Humidity Tent holds moisture around the block so you mist less and get fuller clusters, especially in dry winter air. Ready to grow Turkey Tail from scratch? Start with our Turkey Tail liquid culture syringe.
Turkey Tail is slow and steady. Expect the first caps over several weeks rather than days, then a long fruiting life of three to five flushes across six or more months.
Not strictly, but Turkey Tail benefits from steady humidity more than most kits: around 90% at first, tapering to 70–80% for fruiting. A humidity tent makes that easier indoors, where air is drier.
Typically three to five flushes spread across six or more months from a single block, well beyond the few weeks most gourmet kits produce over.
Most growers dry the caps and use them for tea. Turkey Tail is tough and woody, so it isn't sautéed and eaten like Blue Oyster or King Trumpet.
Yes, with the right spot. Turkey Tail tolerates temperatures down to roughly 40°F, so a shaded, protected location outside works. Keep it out of direct sun, heavy wind and standing water.
The kit is already colonized and ready to fruit, so there's no sterile work. Our Turkey Tail liquid culture syringe is for growers who make their own grain spawn and want to scale up or run multiple grows.
Sold as a mushroom growing kit for cultivation. Turkey Tail is the subject of ongoing scientific research, but nothing on this page is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
I've tried another brand's turkey tail kit in the past and wasn't successful with growing anything. This kit actually produced turkey tail mushrooms for me similar to what I've found in the wild