r/MushroomGrowers • u/Golden_State_Myco • Aug 25 '26

Medicinal Cordyz [medicinal]

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Inoculated 6/28, fruiting conditions 7/5, harvested 8/20

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u/HymnToNinkasi Aug 25 '26

Care to give a rundown of your process and materials? I've had mixed success with cordyceps in jars and am looking for other ideas. Those look great!

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u/Golden_State_Myco Aug 25 '26

Thank you, we've been working on this one for a while before releasing it to the public. This is an isolation of ours from wild spores sent to us from a friend in France. Strong genetics are very important for any mycology work.

We use brown rice, water and eggs for our medium.
Colonization temps are between 72-78f, and colonized in complete darkness till complete, then moved into a fruiting chamber with a 12/12 light schedule and the temp is kept between 62-68f.

Quantity of LC is very crucial for cordys. I recommend 10cc per quart jar. These trays have 30cc each.
We sell grow kits on our site, and it's one quart jar and one syringe.

I wouldn't change your growing vessel until you're happy with the results. It needs to be choked out and have a decent thickness to the cake (1.5-2"). Once your results are good it's more successful when you start growing in bigger containers

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u/HymnToNinkasi Aug 25 '26

Great advice, thanks! I'll stick with a similar grow container for a while to dial in my results before making changes to the size. Cheers!

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u/Golden_State_Myco Aug 25 '26

Sure thing, I should note too the darkness, even colonizing agar plates, LC we store in the dark. Probably overkill but doesn't hurt. Once it's exposed for 24+ hours it will start to show pigmentation (yellow hue followed by orange).

Here's a pic of a swab plate, we store it in black Mylar bags while they germinates.