How to Grow Reishi Mushrooms
How to Grow Reishi Mushrooms
Growing reishi mushrooms involves inoculating sterilized hardwood mushroom substrate or hardwood logs with reishi mushroom mycelium and providing the warm temperatures and high humidity reishi mushrooms require to develop their woody fruiting bodies.
Growing reishi mushrooms on hardwood mushroom substrate follows the same core mushroom cultivation process as other wood decomposing species — sterilized hardwood mushroom substrate is inoculated with reishi mushroom mycelium, allowed to fully colonize, and then moved into fruiting conditions. Reishi mushroom colonization of hardwood mushroom substrate typically takes 30 to 60 days, considerably longer than most gourmet mushroom species. Log cultivation is also a well documented method for growing reishi mushrooms, with inoculated hardwood logs producing reishi mushroom fruiting bodies for multiple years.
Several species are commonly grown under the reishi mushroom name, each with different temperature preferences, fruiting body characteristics, and hardwood mushroom substrate requirements.
Use the links below to find step by step guides for growing reishi mushrooms by species.