MonoBox™ Mushroom Grow Kit
The MonoBox Mushroom Grow Kit is the only kit you need to properly grow your mushrooms at home. Our most popular kit is a step up from our previous UK No.1 selling grow kit (the Cylocybe Special MycoBox) and will transport you to another dimension!
Do I need the new enhanced versions?
Simple answer:
No. If your home is warm or you have an incubator, you don’t need this.
Long answer:
Our new enhanced version comes with pre-hydrated and sterile substrate, meaning you don’t have to prepare and sanitise the substrate yourself in the microwave as you’re used to doing.
With the substrate being sterile, and not merely sanitised, we wanted to introduce this as an option for those with cold homes during this time of year.
Temperature matters even more so when you’re mixing sanitised (not sterile) substrate with colonised grain spawn, because slow-growing mycelium can give a non-sterile substrate the opportunity to contaminate and ruin the batch.
When the temperature is right, healthy mycelium races through a substrate, almost always outcompeting other microbes in the process. However, being too hot or too cold disrupts this balance big time. With Enhanced, you’ll be mixing your colonised grain spawn with as-clean-as-you-can-get substrate, affording you much higher success rates. We will offer this kit only during the cooler months, because it requires significant room and time to produce basically doubling the work and steriliser space to produce this kit.
Skill level
- Absolute beginners
- Experienced growers
Features
- Excellent success rates for new mushroom cultivators
- Easier and cleaner inoculation using gourmet spore, culture solution syringe, G2G, or Agar wedge
- First big harvests in as little as 4 weeks from inoculation
- Multiple harvests until substrate is completely spent
- Extremely low maintenance cultivation without water misting
- Overall harvests of 500g–1000g+ of fresh mushrooms can be achieved with skill
- MonoBox XXL includes redundancy (if one SpawnTub goes bad, you can safely use the good one)
- Detailed online guide showing you how to achieve big, healthy mushrooms
What’s included
XL MonoBox
- Chlorhexidine Alcohol Wipes
- Hand Wipes
- Facemask
- Pair of Sterile Gloves (Optional)
- Online Guide available here
- 1.6L HEPA-Filtered Filtered Grow Box
- 1000mL Mycowavable™ Coco-Coir Based Mushroom Substrate (Regular)
- 1000mL SteriCoir™ Sterile Coco-Coir Based Mushroom Substrate (Enhanced)
- XL Grow Tent
- 1 Sterile Wheat Grain SpawnTub™ (Approx. 1L filled to 650mL)
XXL MonoBox
- Chlorhexidine Alcohol Wipes
- Hand Wipes
- Facemask
- Pair of Sterile Gloves (Optional)
- Online Guide available here
- 3.1L HEPA-Filtered Filtered Grow Box
- 2000mL Mycowavable™ Coco-Coir Based Mushroom Substrate
- 2000mL SteriCoir™ Sterile Coco-Coir Based Mushroom Substrate (Enhanced)
- XXL Grow Tent
- 2 Sterile Wheat Grain SpawnTubs™ (Approx. 1L filled to 650mL)
You’ll need
The kit does not come with any gourmet mushroom spores. You will need to source 1.5-2ml of gourmet spore/culture solution for the XL, 3-4ml for the XXL. It’s important not to add any more than this.
Why the MonoBox Grow Kit is Brilliant
Unlike traditional grow kits, which omit the steps of mixing spawn and substrate by hand, our MonoBox Grow Kit has you breaking all of the ‘rules’ and getting your hands dirty (literally) by mixing your healthy colonized grain spawn with substrate before taking it to the fruiting tent to watch your mushrooms grow into monsters (hopefully!).
We can’t wait for you to experience mushroom cultivation with a kit that we would have killed for back when we first got into mushrooms in our teens in 2005.
In the future, when you’re ready to try your hands at powerful techniques such as Agar or G2G (grain to grain) transfers, you’ll feel right at home with our MonoBox Grow Kit.
Please Note
Sometimes we run out of SpawnTubs™, if that happens – we will provide a SpawnBox™ instead. Same amount of grain spawn, same advanced SacO2 filter technology, just a different container.
Sterility Guaranteed
Every MonoBox Mushroom Grow Kit that we ship out undergoes our strict sterilization process so that you can be sure you have the best chance of success. And if you do notice an issue before you’ve used it, we’ll make things right! Just answer a few questions, send us some photographs, and we’ll try to diagnose the problem. We are dedicated to your success!
Order now and get ready to experience the thrill of growing your own gourmet mushrooms with the MonoBox Mushroom Grow Kit!
Mushrooms species shown growing in the product photo are ‘Cyclocybe Aegerita’, the inspiration of our name ‘Cylocybe’.
Made things easy for a first time newbie. Followed all the steps carefully – in particular making sure the temperature range was right. I found each stage took a bit longer than expected but played the long game and let things develop as they needed to. The final stage in particular seemed to take ages with no action and no sign of any actual mushrooms developing despite a vigorous web of mycelium evident. But all good things come to those who wait and, hey presto, just as I was giving up hope that anything would happen, 2 months later I have harvested my first flush – over 200g of fine mushrooms. Now hoping for a second flush..
Love this review, Rupert. Most folks never get around to leaving one after seeing results, so it’s VERY appreciated that you put the effort into writing this. Regarding duration it takes – it changes wildly on numerous factors, especially for gourmet mushroom spores because there’s a TONNE of genetics with different traits – a lottery. That’s when things get really fun though… strain isolation and cloning for characteristics you want like speed, look, size, etc.
The kit is fantastic and the packaging is exemplary. Clear, concise instructions make for a straightforward and highly rewarding experience. Brilliant.
My second time using this kit and it never fails. Very simple to use with clear instructions provided. I had three good sized flushes and a final small flush of delicious oyster mushrooms. All containers can be sterilised and recycled for future use.
All good thankyou ☮️.
Love mine
An excellent quality kit with everything you will need (apart obviously from spores)
Brilliant, works like a dream
Very good quality, never had contamination issues, all items are well packed and exactly as described on the website.
None of the spores looked to have any contamination when viewing under the microscope, I’d be confident that any gourmet spores could be grown without issue if purchased from Cyclocybe.
Overall very high quality and would definitely recommend.
Great bit of kit
Never had a bad grow kit