🍄 How to choose the right product at MycoZen?

A simple, visual and accessible guide for all levels

At MycoZen , we offer several formats to suit all profiles :
👉 Beginners
👉 Curious
👉 Families
👉 DIYers
👉 Future small-scale home producers

This page helps you choose the right product , according to your level and goals.

🎁 1. MycoZen Fruiting Kit — Ready to Grow

⭐ What is it?

A kit that is already inoculated and colonized , ready to use.
You open it, you follow 2-3 ultra simple steps… and the mushrooms grow all by themselves .

👌 Ideal for:

• Complete beginners

• Families / children / schools

• Gifts

• Those who just want to see mushrooms grow without any equipment

🧭 What you need to do:

• Open the bag/box according to the guide

• Place in a clean, temperature-controlled location

• Spray a little water (if indicated)

• Wait and harvest 🍄

💚 Advantages:

• The simplest of all

• Quick result

• Perfect for testing a strain before going further

🛍️ Examples of MycoZen kits:

• Kit – Blue Oyster Mushroom

• Kit – White Oyster Mushroom

• Kit – Lion's Mane

• Kit – Shiitake

💉 2. Liquid Culture (LC – Liquid Culture) MycoZen

⭐ What is it?

A syringe of live mycelium in a nutrient liquid.
It is used to inoculate bags of sterile grain and allows a strain to be multiplied.

👌 Ideal for:

• Those who want to learn about the true culture

• Those who want to produce several bags from a single strain

• serious mini growers

• Mycology enthusiasts

🧭 What you need to do:

1. Prepare and sterilize bags of grain

2. Inject the LC with a sterile needle

3. Allow to colonize (the grain turns white)

4. Use this spawn to make fruit bags

💚 Advantages:

• One syringe → several bags

• Allows for the preservation of a specific strain (ENO, SHI, LMA, etc.)

• Perfect for planning your mini home farm

🛍️ MycoZen LC Examples:

• LC – Blue Oyster Mushroom

• LC – White Oyster Mushroom

• LC – Shiitake

• LC – Enoki

• LC – Lion's Mane

• LC – Shimeji

🎉 Available packs :
Pack of 3 syringes • Pack of 5 syringes • Discovery pack of 6 strains

🌾 3. Spawn (colonized grain) MycoZen

⭐ What is it?

Grains already colonized by the mycelium (e.g., rye).
It is literally the seed of mushrooms .

👌 Ideal for:

• Produce a lot of mushrooms

• Those who already have some equipment

• Serious or semi-professional home projects

🧭 What you need to do:

• Prepare your substrate (e.g., wood + water + supplement)

• pasteurize/sterilize it

• Mix the spawn with the substrate

• Allow to colonize → bear fruit → harvest

💚 Advantages:

• A spawn bag can produce many fruiting bags

• Perfect for increasing production

• Easier than LC (the sterile work is already done)

🛍️ MycoZen spawn examples:

• Spawn – Blue Oyster Mushroom

• Spawn – White Oyster Mushroom

• Spawn – Shiitake

• Spawn – Enoki / Shimeji

🧪 4. MycoZen Substrates & Master Mix

Master Mix is ​​a nutrient substrate based on wood pellets + supplement.
You can :

• buy pre-inoculated Master Mix bags , ready for colonization,

• or buy sterile substrate to inoculate yourself (LC or spawn).

🛍️ Examples:

• Inoculated Master Mix – Blue Oyster Mushroom

• Inoculated Master Mix – Shiitake

• Master Mix Pack – 3 x 1 kg

✅ 5. Quick summary — What to choose?

🔁 6. Typical journey of a MycoZen grower

Step 1 — Discovery 🌱

→ Fruiting kit (e.g., Blue Oyster mushroom)

Step 2 — Learning 🧬

→ LC syringes for learning inoculation

Step 3 — Homemade Production 🍄

→ Spawn bags for colonizing substrate bags

Step 4 — Optimization 📈

→ Selection of preferred strains + mini production organization