Spent substrate bag (Lion's mane) BIG

How to order and pick up

Order the bags from the online store and pick them up from Satohuone when it suits you (weekends are ok as well - just order before Friday 12.00). If you need to collect the bags the same day you're ordering, please call and ensure the availability. Write the pickup date in the text field on the product page, and the bags will be prepared outside for you to pick up independently any time starting from 10 AM. If you are unable to pick up on the specified date, please send a message to arrange a new pickup time (unclaimed bags will not be left in the yard). If we a problem with the pickup date, we will contact you. Otherwise the bags will be waiting for you on the specified day without further notice. The pickup location is at the corner of the hall, next to the door of Satohuone.

The bags may be moist, and there may be holes from which substrate can spill out. Therefore, bring garbage bags with you or protect your car, for example, with a tarp if desired.

One bag is approximately 28x20x20cm, weighing around 3.5 kg.

Driving instructions:

Drive into the inner yard of Kässälänkatu 4 (not the house on the street!) and follow the signs for Satohuone towards the right side of the hall building in front, around the corner.

How to use?

You can grow lion's mane straight from the substrate bag, indoors or outdoors. Just keep the log moist until the mushrooms have grown. Just avoid direct watering/misting in the growth). Indoors in the winter time it's better to make a humidity-locking hood upon the bag, from a plastic bag with breathing holes. You can inject a little bit of water to the substrate log to increase yield. Let the mushrooms grow from the existing holes or make a small slit to the plastic for a new point of grow. Usually one bag gives 1-3 harvests before the nutrients are deplenished.

You can also make a mushroom bed with the same instructions used for oyster mushroom (https://www.satohuone.fi/en/product/spent-mushroom-substrate). Lion's mane might need extra nutrients to produce decent mushrooms though, so it is not as certain or high-yielding as oyster mushroom. Hardwood is the best material for lion's mane, for example pellets or chips. Softwoods or straw pellets are not recommended. The material is moistened and mixed with the crumbled lion's mane substrate, after which it's compacted tightly and watered. In a few weeks the mycelium will colonize the new material and after that it is ready to produce mushrooms. Lion's mane is very sensitive to direct sunlight (and somewhat to direct rain/watering) so make sure you only grow in full shade.

The substrate includes finnish alder/birch and wheat, and it can be composted, used as mulch or disposed as biowaste. It is also a superb soil amendment.

Happy growing!