The easiest way to grow Cordyceps militaris at Home

[@davidferrer7793]

thank for sharing

[@Frankiemind]

Great video man! Spreading mycology for all!!!

[@mushappy6161]

🍄🫡

[@sbpermaculturesilvopasture30]

Hi, thank you for sharing with us; you didn't go into some problem (infertile strain) with this type of reproduction? or the sugar naturally promote the compatible mating ascospores ? It deserves more than a toast 🍧🍧; anyway great job !!

[@mushappy6161]

Thanks The point of this video is not to show how to breed and mate for commercial production, but to show how anyone can easily grow them at home at a very low cost. Even so, these methods should not be a problem for their reproduction and mating. Their favorite foods are malt, yeast and sugars (glucose, dextrose) and the proper LC recipe was shown in another video of mine

[@_black_is_black_]

love it man, ty

[@tenpiecenug]

Thanks so much for the video. great as always!

[@mushappy6161]

🙏thanks

[@timm5358]

I'm confused.. you are inoculating in open air? I was looking for the flowhood or sab.. and no sterile substrate? Am I overlooking something or how do get away with it?

[@mushappy6161]

Yes. You may not understand it in common sense, but this video is exactly what you saw and thought🙂 This is not the normal way. It shows how anyone can easily cultivate it at home without lab equipment If you want the normal cultivation method of Cordyceps militaris, you can see other videos on my channel

[@konstantinNeo]

Could you comment on the peptones you use? What protein peptones are best for cordiceps? Animal, vegetal? After being bit by mychology bug I started to make Hericium E liquid culture and will try buying Cordyceps culture as well. Peptones are bit expensive I have found and there are so many different labs and types one can go crazy, I source most of my myco stuff on ali but they dont have much peptones. So the sugars provide the carbon and the peptones the nitrogen right?

[@mushappy6161]

Laboratory culture media are expensive. You can get good results without using peptone. For a cheaper option, you can make your own PDB (potato extract, dextrose or sugar) You can also make a medium by combining soybean meal, sugar, KH2PO4, and MgSO4 7H2O However, although soybean meal medium is very cheap, it is difficult to observe mycelium growth because the broth is cloudy Yes, sugar, etc. are carbon sources, peptone, soybean meal, malt, etc. are nitrogen sources

[@walkabout29]

Great video. Very informative. My question is, can you get a second flush?

[@mushappy6161]

tks. It's possible, but I don't recommend it

[@SERGEYFT]

Do Cordyceps militaris spores last long? Can you use them to make a spore print on foil and store it for years? Or should the spores be planted immediately since their shelf life is short?

[@mushappy6161]

Isolate on water agar or PDA plate, and store the strain in a vial of water or glycerol mixture and keep frozen

[@sharmamadhus09]

i thought we weren't supposed to introduce light before they fully colonize the rice ? and do you keep your lights on 24h or a 12/12 cycle ?

[@mushappy6161]

-Normally, it will be fully colonized in 3~4 days in the dark after inoculation. -12/12h

[@sharmamadhus09]

​@@mushappy6161oh. thanks :) I got to grow some

[@imadalshall3066]

So great , useful & benefit method Where are you from , friend

[@mushappy6161]

Thank you for watching🫡 from korea

[@RebelionFiscal]

Great video! Thank you. Can I use regular white sugar for the LC?

[@mushappy6161]

You can make LC with just white sugar at home Even so, commercial cultivation requires a variety of mediums to be prepared They like yeast, malt, peptone, sugar, etc

[@lacreaciondelrobert]

Wow, amazing. It is indeed an easy way. I have some questions I hope you could answer: What you did by inserting Cordyceps tissue in the LC was cloning right? Any idea on how to develop a home-friendly method to grow Cordyceps militaries from spores? (I have tried to understand how their breeding works but my knowledge is just insufficient to comprehend the information that I find on the internet) Greetings from Mexico 🍄

[@mushappy6161]

Hi My English is not good so I don't know if I can give you the answer you want. This video is Not just tissue cloning. Watch this video very carefully and you will understand my intentions. In this video, I made LC using Cordyceps grown with my strain and cultivated it. As a result, the harvested Cordyceps had a different type of fruiting body than the Cordyceps used in LC. Because, if you look closely at Cordyceps used in LC, there are many spores, and the spores and tissues were cultured together I guess this would have been a multispore random cross mating Breeding and single spore isolation are required to produce fruit bodies of consistent quality with commercial strains of all mushrooms, not just Cordyceps After that, a new strain is created through the top cross test process. Breeding to obtain good strains takes a lot of time and patience Your best mentor is your experience🙂 You have to try and try again and again by applying this video in your own way

[@lacreaciondelrobert]

@@mushappy6161 This is just the answer that I needed 🙂. Thank you very much, keep doing great videos 🍄

[@marcheattention]

Hello Mushappy, thank you for this simple looking technique. Did you do this all in open air or was this in front of a flowhood?

[@mushappy6161]

Thank you for watching This is definitely a method that anyone can do as a hobby at home in an open space, and is not a commercial cultivation method.

[@marcheattention]

@@mushappy6161 ok thank you ill give it a try!

[@user-pt2zm1rs3q]

Please tell me what, nothing but water and brown rice to prepare the substrate? How much water and rice? Thank you!

[@mushappy6161]

Most cultivaters' substrate recipes yeast, malt, srarch, eggs, vitamins, spirulina, water, potatoes, etc with brown rice substrate. but I only use organic oats or brown rice and pure water (1:1.5 or 1.6) This is because there is no problem in cultivating Cordyceps just with the nutrients of the grain.

[@hadriancian333]

what if we cant get ourself a fresh local cordyceps , can we get it from dry one on line? will it work?

[@mushappy6161]

Is that possible? I've seen someone try that way, but I've never done it Rather than buying dry cordyceps, it would be better to buy strains from a trusted person

[@jorgenio11]

Thank you!

[@mushappy6161]

thanks

[@kylegivler8372]

You can grow it at 77f? I though it needed to be in the 60s (F)?

[@mushappy6161]

What is shown here is not commercial cultivation, but a method that can be easily grown as a hobby at home. It is true that fully equipped commercial cultivation requires a cultivation environment of 67 ~ 70' F

[@ytrebiLeurT]

I love it 🥰

[@mushappy6161]

Thanks🍄

[@David-sw3iy]

You can use stale beer? Wow...

[@CL-mp4vn]

How does the tea smell and taste ?

[@mushappy6161]

There is no particular taste, but cordycepin will benefit your health💪🏻

[@sharmamadhus09]

how to know cordyceps are ready for harvest ?

[@mushappy6161]

In general, if cultivated at around 20', it can be harvested 40 ~ 50 days from the inoculation It is best to harvest almost all cultivated mushrooms, including cordyceps, before they are fully mature (before spores are released). Mushroom spores have a bad effect on our respiratory system, but when eaten, they can be medicine🍄

[@sharmamadhus09]

@@mushappy6161 i was following this grow guide which said they should be harvested about 70/75 days from innoculation and I'm really confused. for gilled mushrooms I could tell by their shape and formation, but this is my first time growing Cordyceps so I don't know much. any physical pointers? appereance to look out for to know they're ready to be picked?

[@prabakaranprbu-is1ev]

​@@mushappy6161 hai

[@xxyyxx10]

What’s your needle’s gauge size?

[@mushappy6161]

15G

[@xxyyxx10]

@@mushappy6161 okay thank you!

[@Atom9830011696]

You didn’t use controlled temp or darkness.

[@mushappy6161]

The point of this video is not to show commercial cultivation, but to show how to do it at home as a hobby with easy and inexpensive substrates. So I tried to grow at room temp, where we live. As we all know, strain cultures of cordyceps should be maintained in the dark at 20-21 degrees for 3-4 days, and fruiting growth should be maintained at 20-21 degrees with a 12/12 hour light/dark cycle. For commercial cultivation, you can watch my other uploaded videos, or I will show you in great detail in my upcoming videos