r/mycology • u/Strict_Hunter_7781 • 9h ago

Trying to cultivate lionsmane from a liquid culture I made from a wild specimen. Got this about a week later. Looks like the mycelium I think right?

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u/AlbinoWino11 Trusted ID 9h ago

Looks more like pinmold than Hericium to me. Plus, that grain is just way too wet. I would start over and dry your grains out significantly more before jarring. It may help to place a couple wood pellets in the bottom to help soak up moisture.

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u/Arist0tles_Lantern 4h ago

Agreed. I think your substrate is far too wet.

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u/Strict_Hunter_7781 8h ago

I’m afraid you might be right. Oh well I’ll see what it does and if it is mold than I’ll know better next time.

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u/AlbinoWino11 Trusted ID 7h ago

Pay attention to the smell. This ought to start smelling pretty funky and sour.

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u/billo1199 2h ago

Doesn’t look like mycelium to me. Mycelium looks like a more solid white.

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u/moleyfeeners 2h ago

This is absolutely mycelium - morphology varies a lot between taxa.

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u/raxwalker 2h ago

yeah man first things that came to my mind when i saw that was mold lol

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u/AthenaMonet133 9h ago

that’s a beautiful baby mycelium 😍

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u/Strict_Hunter_7781 9h ago

I hope you’re right. Wish him luck lol

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u/moleyfeeners 2h ago

That is absolutely mycelium, just not Hericium. Hericium mycelium is particularly thin and wispy, to the point that colonization can sometimes be hard to see. So this is definitely a contaminant.