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I can't see if the SAB attaches to the Chamber/Incubator, if not, what's best practice to move the substrate from SAB to Chamber for the least chance of contamination.
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Year-round grow lab
Complete grow lab
CyLab
A still-air box, a temperature-controlled incubator and a heated fruiting chamber, built into one compact, low-power system. It lets you grow gourmet mushrooms in any season, even through a cold UK winter, without heating the whole house.
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For cultivating legal gourmet mushroom species only. Made to order, please allow about 7 working days.
Made in the UK
built to order, about 7 working days
built to order, about 7 working days
Low power
runs on 25 to 75W, an A+++ setup
runs on 25 to 75W, an A+++ setup
Grows all year
stable temperatures whatever the weather
stable temperatures whatever the weather
LevelBeginner to advanced, grows with you
What it isStill-air box, incubator and fruiting chamber
Power25 to 75W (up to 40x less than a room heater)
UseGrow gourmet mushrooms in any season
The short version
Not a grow kit but the lab to run them in. The CyLab combines the three things a home grower fights for into one nesting system: a still-air box for clean work, an insulated incubator that holds a steady colonisation temperature, and a heated fruiting chamber for the flush. It sips power, so you can keep mushrooms growing through winter without a sky-high heating bill, and it packs away inside itself for storage.
The system
Three labs in one box
Most home grows fail for one of two reasons: a contaminated transfer, or a temperature that drifts too cold or too warm. The CyLab is built to remove both. It is a single nesting system that does the three jobs a serious grower otherwise rigs up separately, and it runs on next to no power.
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Still-air box, for clean work
The lidded still-air box gives you a calm, draught-free space to inoculate, mix spawn or take a print. Arm holes are cut into the lid so you can work inside while the air around your culture stays still, which is where most contamination is kept out.
2
Incubator, for steady colonisation
An insulated, temperature-controlled chamber holds your spawn and substrate at a stable warmth while the mycelium runs, aim for around 24 degrees, anywhere from 18 to 24 is fine as long as it stays steady. A thermostatic water heater does the work on 25 to 75W, so you are not heating a whole room for weeks.
3
Fruiting chamber, for the flush
Once colonised, the cake moves into the heated fruiting chamber with its 6500K grow light and tuned air exchange. Drop the temperature a little, to around 20 to 22 degrees, and the humidity held in the substrate brings on the pins. You can run a classic perlite fruiting chamber or a monotub-style bulk grow in the same space.
Run two stages at once.
Because the incubator and fruiting chamber nest together, you can be colonising your next batch while the current one fruits above it, with no gap between harvests.
Why this one
What makes the CyLab different
It pays for itself
Holding a room in the mid-20s for months costs a fortune. The CyLab heats only the space that needs it, on 25 to 75W, so it earns its keep over a winter or two of growing.
Grow all year
A stable, controlled temperature means you are not at the mercy of a cold UK home. You can keep growing straight through the winter, when most home setups stall.
It grows with you
Start with simple cakes, move on to monotubs, take your own prints, work on agar. The CyLab supports the lot, so it is the last setup you need to buy as you improve.
Packs away
Every part nests inside the next, so the whole lab stores and travels as a single tidy box rather than a shelf of separate gear.
In the box
What's included
The chambers
- Fruiting chamber with lid, pre-cut for air exchange
- Still-air box with lid (lid cut with arm holes; box left uncut)
- Water tank, pre-cut for the air-exchange tunnel
- Incubator with lid, pre-cut, sized to sit inside the water tank
Power and consumables
- Water heater with built-in thermostat (25 to 75W)
- 6500K LED fruiting light, the ideal colour temperature
- About 2.75m of premium aluminium bubble insulation, pre-cut
- 12 litres of perlite, plus polyfil for clean air exchange
What you'll need
To get growing
The CyLab is the environment, not the grow itself. Pair it with one of our grow kits or a SpawnTub and a gourmet liquid culture, and you have everything to take a culture from inoculation to harvest in one place. For a monotub grow, three SpawnTubs and a coir block fill the chamber nicely.
At a glance
The spec sheet
What it isA combined still-air box, incubator and fruiting chamber
Power draw25 to 75W via a thermostatic water heater, A+++
Light6500K LED fruiting light included
Colonisation tempAround 24 degrees, 18 to 24 is fine if kept steady
Fruiting tempA little cooler, around 20 to 22 degrees
GrowsClassic perlite fruiting chamber or a monotub bulk grow
MadeUnited Kingdom, built to order (about 7 working days)
Suited toGourmet species: oyster, Lion's Mane, Shiitake and similar
Common questions
Frequently asked
No, it is the lab to grow in. It gives you a clean workspace, a steady colonisation temperature and a proper fruiting environment. You add the grow kit, spawn or culture.
Set it around 24 degrees for colonisation (18 to 24 is fine if steady), then a couple of degrees cooler, around 20 to 22, for fruiting. The thermostat keeps it consistent so you are not chasing the weather.
Yes. It heats only the chamber, on 25 to 75W, rather than a whole room. Over a winter of growing it pays for itself against running the central heating.
Yes. Run it as a classic perlite fruiting chamber, or fill it with a coir substrate and colonised spawn for a monotub. The air holes are positioned for both.
Each CyLab is built to order, so please allow about 7 working days. If you order other items too, let us know in the order notes whether to ship together or send the rest first.
What customers say
Reviews
★★★★★ 4.9 from 28 reviews ✓ All from verified purchases
★★★★★✓ VerifiedOrdered 21 Apr 2025 · Reviewed 4 Aug 2025
Marvellous.
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★★★★★✓ VerifiedOrdered 29 Sep 2021 · Reviewed 12 Oct 2021
Just assembled, all complete & with several bonus gifts, nice touch..
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★★★★★✓ VerifiedOrdered 7 Jun 2022 · Reviewed 30 Jun 2022
Very very comprehensive setup and not excessively big. You will get everything included: temp regulator, led light, the boxes with the different holes pre cut. Very very good!
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★★★★★✓ VerifiedReviewed 27 Apr 2025
The cylab is genuinely nothing short of revolutionary. If you want speed, quality and stupendous results go with a cylab. It was easy to put together and similar principal to box and tent cultivation just loads more controlled and much easier to look after. It only took 8 days for my first stage of mycelium growth to be a massive success. I 100% recommend this kit and the experts at Cylocybe have been super friendly and helpful the whole way. Go for it. Get one. It’s worth it👍
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★★★★★✓ VerifiedOrdered 11 Nov 2021 · Reviewed 1 Dec 2021
I ordered the 'Complete CyLab' which I received last week. The items were very well packed (sometimes a rare thing these days) with all items present, in perfect condition and of fantastic durable quality. I'm 100% new to mushroom growing and whilst I appreciate that there will be trial and error, I wanted to hit the ground running with my new hobby and I believe this kit will help me do that. I looked around on the Internet for a complete growing kit and this was the one that ticked all the boxes for me (I couldn't actually even find anything close to the Complete CyLab). I'm a little short on space, but this kit is the perfect size to store and use in my spare wardrobe without cluttering up my other rooms and away from inquisitive felines. I can't wait to be eating gourmet mushrooms next year 🙃
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★★★★★✓ VerifiedOrdered 13 Jun 2022 · Reviewed 9 Jul 2022
well packaged and works great
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Questions and answers
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When fully constructed and at its largest points, what are the dimensions of the water tank, incubator and fruiting chamber together?
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I am unsure of this, but I will try to find out asap for you. It’s a super busy time right now on the site because of the season :)
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When you say a 12/12 lighting cycle works, is that using the LED lighting during the 12 hours of darkness then using the room's ambient lighting during the day, or leaving the mushrooms in darkness during the night then giving them bright LED lighting during the day? In other words, do mushrooms favour constant lighting or a day/night cycle?
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You can decide the times, but 12/12 works just fine. If you'd like to give them longer light that will be fine also. 24hours a day lighting has never been an issue when we've grown. Maybe there are species which care more about the light, I haven't heard of any though.
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How often does the perlite in the fruiting chamber have to be replaced?
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After a full grow, you could clean it out by baking it in the oven. That will effectively kill bacteria and spores and the same time as drying it out. The other option is simply buying more from us.
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What are the cubic dimensions of the whole product when assembled together?
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Not sure sorry. If you figure that out before us, feel free to post it here :)
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Is it best to leave a small gap between the fruiting chamber and it's lid to allow FAE via an electric fan or is there an alternative method that you would recommend? Thanks.
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It’s unneccessary to do that, just push the lid down. There are air exchage holes already pre-cut for exchange. Running a fan in the room is a great idea.
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Setting the water heater to 24°C (as in the graphic instructions) can result in the incubation chamber being up to a couple of degrees below the water temperature (around 22°C) What is the actual optimal temperature inside the incubation chamber itself meant to be? Isn’t 24°C the optimal target temperature for the fruiting chamber itself, and not incubation the incubation chamber? Many thanks in advance.
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Anywhere between 20C and 26C is fine for incubation temperature, however 26C will have noticeably faster growth. If you are getting 24C - i’d say you are hitting a great incubation temp. If you’d like to up that by a degree or two, simply put your water heater to 27C and see what it hits then. If you want more precise temps, get a Habistat Thermostat and plug it into the water heater - then you aren’t using the water heater to monitor the temp at all, the Habistat will be doing that with it’s external probe into the incubator and automatically turning on and off the water heater (meaning you can happily put the water heater up to the max temp it goes - so that it’s completely bypassed by Habistat.)
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When using the fruiting chamber do you remove the insulation hat and jacket?
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Great question. It really depends on the temps in your home, if it’s set up in really cold area then you will want to keep it on but without the foil lid so that it still gets light. Or even with the lid but a little window cut from the foil to let light in. Mushroom fruiting can be achieved at cooler temps than incubation, this is why the foil insulation might not be necessary in your home.
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Hello.. I don’t understand where I use the “sab” box in conjunction with the “cylab “ ? It isn’t mentioned in the cylab photo instructions??
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It’s a Still-air box, have a look at the product photos and you’ll see it being used to inoculate sterile kits.
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Hi .. is the cylab big enough for the xxl mono box kit? With two different strains of spores ? Should I have ordered two of the same strain spores??
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Sorry, not 100% sure of the question but i’ll take a stab at part of it. Yes the XXL MonoBox easily fits in the CyLab. It’s big enough for three of those kits (so three different species or strains of gourmet mushrooms). More XL MonoBox grow kits can fit inside, maybe 6 of them.
For cultivating legal gourmet mushroom species only.
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