Grow your own mushroomsSterilized Tube of Black Mushroom Mycelium.The mycelium contained in this laboratory tube must be diluted in sugar water before being spread on the ground.Before spreading your mycelium, prepare your sugar water mixture: Bottled mineral water is ideal, it has less chlorine and has the advantage of being packaged in a sanitized environment. Empty about 5% of the water in the water bottle to be able to add syrup (syrup of apple or lemon based on glucose and above all without preservative, approximately 5% of the volume of water). Teisseire brand syrup is perfect. Be careful not to add more, otherwise the liquid risks fermenting. Then add the mycelium contained in the tube at a rate of 10 ml per liter of sugar water mixture (shake the tube well before pouring). Be 15 ml for a 1.5 liter bottle and 50 ml for a 5 liter bottle. Your mixture must then remain protected from light in a room at 20° minimum for at least 10 days for the mycelium to develop. Open from time to time to relieve the pressure of any gases formed. Thus, you can multiply the mycelium in large quantities, it can be kept cool and protected from light for several months. Then inoculate your substrate with your mixture of mycelium (plastic bag filled with coffee grounds, straw, wood shavings, compost, etc.). It is also cultivated on dead branches of deciduous trees pierced with holes into which the mycelium is introduced or on logs of wood. You will find several substrate recipe on the web (on dead wood, on a bale of straw, in a bag, in a bottle, etc.). If the conditions are ideal, the mycelium can live for several years on dead wood or compost. The tube is packaged under vacuum and delivered with instructions for use.