10ml lab-verified mushroom liquid culture syringes for growers ready to inoculate their own substrate.
A mushroom liquid culture (LC) is sterile sugar-water seeded with actively-growing mushroom mycelium. Inject 1 to 2 ml into a sterilized grain bag, and within 7 to 14 days the bag is fully colonized and ready to spawn to bulk substrate. Each Lykyn LC syringe is filtered and verified in our lab, sealed under sterile conditions, and shipped cold-pack when ambient temperatures call for it.
Lion's Mane (Pearl Pom cultivar) for slow steady colonization. Blue Oyster for cold-tolerant fast spread. Pink Oyster for warm-room growers. Golden Oyster for the prettiest flush. All four are verified for vigor before they ship.
Every syringe is pulled from a master jar inside a HEPA laminar flow hood, capped with a Luer-lock tip, and individually sealed. The needle ships separately in its own sterile sleeve so you only break the seal at the inoculation moment.
Refrigerate at 35 to 50°F (do not freeze). Most growers see best results within 90 days. If you have to store longer, transfer to agar (slants or wedges) and the genetics keep for years.
Liquid culture takes longer to colonize than spawn-to-bulk shortcuts, and it does require a sterile work environment. New growers should pair LC with our Still Air Box for clean inoculation, or stick with our pre-colonized fruiting blocks until the workflow feels natural.
Refrigerated at 35 to 50°F, a sealed Lykyn LC syringe stays viable for about 6 months, with best results in the first 90 days. After 6 months, the mycelium is still alive but slower, so inoculate sooner if you can.
In a household fridge, on the door or middle shelf, away from foods that off-gas (onions, garlic). Keep upright, in the original packaging, and avoid temperature swings. Do not freeze: ice crystals will lyse the mycelial cells.
Wipe a sterilized grain bag's injection port with 70% iso, insert the needle, push 1 to 2 ml of LC into the grain, withdraw slowly, agitate the bag gently. Incubate at 70 to 75°F until fully colonized (4 to 14 days). Spawn to bulk substrate, fruit in the chamber, harvest.
Mix 4% honey or light malt extract with distilled water, sterilize in a pressure cooker at 15 PSI for 30 minutes, cool, then inoculate with a tiny mycelium wedge from agar or a clean spore syringe. Grow under sterile conditions until cloudy. This is a Pro-grower step. If you are not there yet, start with our pre-made syringes.
Technically yes, but it is wasteful. LC is meant to colonize grain bags, which then spawn 5 to 10 times their volume in bulk substrate. Injecting LC straight into a fruiting block bypasses the multiplication step you paid for.
Newer to cultivation? Skip the LC step and grab a pre-colonized fruiting block. Already running grain bags? Subscribe to your favorite culture and save 15% per syringe.
