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MycDrop
A fast, single-box kit for a first grow. You inject your own gourmet culture straight into the sterile substrate, colonise it (no incubator needed, even in a cooler room), then dunk and fruit in the included tent.
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For cultivating legal gourmet mushroom species only. A gourmet liquid culture or spore syringe is not included.
filled and sterilised fresh to order
arrives sterile or we replace it
any gourmet species, your choice
colonises quickly, tolerates a cooler room
The short version
A single-stage gourmet mushroom kit built for speed. You inject your own culture straight into the sterile Cylocybe Special substrate inside a small HEPA-filtered box, let it colonise (roughly twice as fast as a standard MycoBox, and happy in a cooler room without an incubator), then dunk the colonised cake and fruit it in the included XL tent. It gives a medium harvest over several flushes, ideal for personal use or sharing. The Enhanced version adds 1.5L of perlite so you can skip misting.
How it works
How a MycDrop grow works
The MycDrop is a single box, no separate grain stage. You inject your gourmet culture straight into the sterile substrate, let it run, then dunk and fruit. Fewer steps than a two-stage kit, and it gets to the finish line quickly.
Inoculate the box
Slide the Mini MycoBox out of its bag and wipe the grey rubber port (or ports) on the lid with the green wipe. Fit a fresh needle to your gourmet spore or culture syringe and put 0.5ml into each port. Leave the white air filter strips alone. Work somewhere clean and draught-free.
Colonise the substrate
Keep the box in the cardboard it arrived in, somewhere steady. Aim for around 24 degrees, though anywhere from 18 to 24 is fine, just keep it consistent and watch for condensation. No heat mat. This kit tolerates cooler rooms well and colonises fast, so an incubator is not needed. Leave the lid on until the block is solid white, and do not open it before then.
Dunk the cake
Once it is fully colonised, lift the solid block (the cake) out and submerge it in cold water, weighed down with a plate so it stays under. Cover it and leave it anywhere from 6 to 24 hours. This rehydrates the cake so the humidity for fruiting comes from the substrate itself.
Fruit your mushrooms
Rinse the cake, let it drain, and stand it in the XL grow tent. Drop the temperature slightly, to around 20 to 22 degrees. A small slit each side of the tent plus a low fan in the room gives it the fresh air it needs to pin. Harvest each mushroom just as the veil under the cap begins to tear, then dunk the cake again between flushes for more.
Why this one
What makes a MycDrop different
The MycDrop is built on the same Cylocybe Special substrate as the MycoBox, but tuned for speed and simplicity. It colonises roughly twice as fast as a standard MycoBox, forgives a cooler room, and skips the separate grain stage entirely. The trade-off is size: this is a single small box, so the harvest is medium rather than huge.
If you like the single-box idea but want a bigger harvest and do not mind waiting longer, the MycoBox is the larger, slower sibling. If you want the full grain-to-bulk method, step up to the MonoBox.
Why it works
How we make it sterile
The substrate inside the box is the part that has to be perfectly clean before you inoculate it, because once it is sealed it is just waiting for your culture. This is how we get it there.
Autoclaved
The filled box is heat-sealed in an autoclave bag and sterilised in distilled water at 121 degrees for 90 minutes.
Cleanroom sealed
It then passes through a HEPA-filtered corridor to a cleanroom, where a suited operator handles it in front of a 12 foot laminar flow hood.
Desiccant dried
It is rebagged with a desiccant sachet that pulls out any residual moisture, starving stray microbes, and heat-sealed shut.
Worth noting
No process is ever perfect, which is exactly why every kit is backed by the Sterile Guarantee further down.
In the box
What's included
One complete kit in two versions, Regular and Enhanced. Both are ready to inoculate bar the culture, which you add yourself.
MycDrop, Regular
Needs 2.5ml of culture
- 750ml HEPA-filtered Inject-thru Mini MycoBox (18 x 12 x 5cm)
- Sterile Cylocybe Special substrate (whole wheat grain, coir, gypsum, lime, vermiculite, coffee)
- XL HEPA-filtered grow tent (32 x 49cm)
- Hygiene kit: 2 alcohol wipes, 2 hand wipes, 1 face mask
- Sterile gloves (optional, but advised)
MycDrop, Enhanced
Needs 2.5ml of culture
- Everything in the Regular kit
- 1.5L perlite for extra fruiting humidity
- So you can skip misting altogether
The one thing you add
What you'll need
A MycDrop arrives sterile and ready to inoculate, so you supply the living part: a gourmet liquid culture or spore syringe. You need 2.5ml in total, 0.5ml into each lid port. We make gourmet liquid cultures you can inoculate it with.
Liquid culture has known, predictable genetics and tends to colonise faster and more reliably. Spore syringes are cheaper and offer more variety, but are never fully sterile, so incubate them slightly cooler to let the mycelium outrun any stragglers.
Whatever you inoculate with, give the mycelium a clean start: wipe the rubber port, work in still, draught-free air, and flame the needle. Most failed grows trace back to a sloppy injection rather than a bad kit. We stock the sterile gear for it (a still-air box, wipes and gloves) in sterile and lab equipment.
Risk, reversed
The Sterile Guarantee
Every kit is made fresh and arrives sterile and sealed. If one shows contamination on arrival, before you have inoculated it, send us photos and we will replace it. What happens after you open it comes down to your technique and conditions, which no reputable seller can promise for you. So we stand fully behind the kit reaching you clean, and the troubleshooting below helps with the rest.
At a glance
The spec sheet
- Kit type
- Single-stage, inject the substrate box directly
- Vessel
- 750ml HEPA-filtered Inject-thru Mini MycoBox, plus an XL grow tent to fruit in
- Substrate
- Sterile Cylocybe Special blend (wheat grain, coir, gypsum, lime, vermiculite, coffee)
- Inoculation
- Inject through the lid's rubber port (or ports), 0.5ml per port
- Culture needed
- 2.5ml in total, not included
- Colonisation temp
- Around 24 degrees, 18 to 24 is fine if kept steady, tolerates cooler rooms
- Fruiting temp
- A little cooler, around 20 to 22 degrees
- Before fruiting
- Dunk the colonised cake in water for 6 to 24 hours
- Time to harvest
- About 4 to 6 weeks from inoculation to the first flush
- Yield
- Medium, ideal for personal use or sharing, over multiple flushes
- Versions
- Regular, or Enhanced with 1.5L perlite for extra humidity
- Made
- United Kingdom, fresh to order
- Suited to
- Gourmet species: oyster, Lion's Mane, Shiitake and similar
When things look off
Common issues
Because you do the growing, the odd thing can go sideways. Here are the common ones and what they usually mean.
Slow or nothing
Usually a cool room. This kit copes with lower temperatures but cold still slows it down, so warm it gently towards 24 degrees and give it time.
Yellow liquid
Normal. That is metabolites, the mycelium's own waste, not contamination.
Green, grey or sour
That is contamination. Bin the affected cake and keep it away from your others.
Dry tent, no pins
Too cold for humidity to build, or the fan or light is too close and drying it out. On the Regular kit a light mist helps; the Enhanced kit's perlite usually means you do not need to.
The full step-by-step lives in the MycDrop grow guide, and the grow-kit troubleshooting guide goes deeper on contamination and temperature.
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Common questions
Frequently asked
Aim for about 24 degrees while it colonises, though this kit copes with cooler rooms better than most, so anywhere from 18 to 24 is fine as long as it is steady. Watch for condensation. Drop it a couple of degrees, to around 20 to 22, for fruiting. Avoid heat mats, they cause condensation.
No. The MycDrop is built to colonise without one and tolerates lower temperatures, which is part of why it suits beginners and cooler homes. Just keep the temperature as steady as you can.
Any legal gourmet species you have a culture for, such as oyster, Lion's Mane or Shiitake. The culture is not included, you add your own gourmet liquid culture or spore syringe, 2.5ml in total at 0.5ml per port. We sell gourmet liquid cultures separately.
Same kit, but Enhanced adds 1.5L of perlite to the tent for extra fruiting humidity so you can skip misting. With Regular you may need a light mist if the tent looks dry, since most of the moisture comes from dunking the cake.
Roughly 2 to 3 weeks to colonise in good conditions (longer in a cool room), then a dunk and a week or so to fruit. So around 4 to 6 weeks from inoculation to the first flush, depending on species and temperature.
Send us photos before opening it and we will replace it, that is our Sterile Guarantee. Contamination that appears after you inoculate comes down to technique and conditions, so check the troubleshooting first.
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For cultivating legal gourmet mushroom species only.Sold as a sterile substrate kit for home cultivation. We trust you to be responsible.