MonoBox™ Grow Kit
£38.00 – £55.00
Whether you are brand new to mushroom growing or you’re well versed and starting from agar wedge, our MonoBox Grow Kit has your back.
Our online guide assumes a complete beginner but it’s flexible enough for any experience level.
MonoBox™ Mushroom Grow Kit
The MonoBox™ Mushroom Grow Kit is now our most popular kit and we’re so glad customers love using it as much as we loved developing it.
Following our process will teach you essential skills in mushroom cultivation, from inoculation to transferring spawn to substrate… don’t worry if these terms are brand new to you – we have very detailed online instructions to guide you each through each step!
You’ll have lots of fun along the way, getting involved with proper hands-on experience and oh, the satisfaction when you harvest that first flush of your lovely gourmet mushrooms you’ve nurtured all the way from their beginnings as spores.
When you feel confident enough with your skills, which won’t take you long, you can try some other methods like adding mycelium to your SpawnTubs from Agar or grain-to-grain transfers – these are quicker and cleaner inoculation options that the MonoBox™ Grow Kit offers to those with more experience and this, along with excellent success rates, keeps customers coming back again and again.
Features
- Range of inoculation options using gourmet spores, liquid culture solution, blazing fast G2G, or Agar wedge
- First big harvests in as little as 4 weeks depending on inoculation type, genetics etc.
- Multiple harvests until substrate is completely spent
- Extremely low-maintenance cultivation without water misting
- Overall harvests of 500 g–1000 g+ of fresh mushrooms can be achieved
XXL MonoBox™ Grow Kit ft. SteriCVG™ Substrate
An enhanced version of the original XXL now with pre-sterile substrate containing coir, vermiculite, gypsum and some secret ingredients for enhanced mushroom growth.
Orders for our XXL MonoBox™ Grow Kit placed after 2nd of June, 2025 will receive freshly made SteriCVG™ substrate seperately after you contact us at the point of needing it – when your SpawnTubs are fully colonised. This ensures the best quality. You will not pay additional delivery costs for this service and you’ll be treated as a VIP for priority production and dispatch.
You receive everything you need.
- 2 x Sterile Grain SpawnTubs™ (approx. 1300ml of Rye Grain)
- 3.1L HEPA-Filtered Grow Box
- 2000ml SteriCVG™ (Sent out fresh when you need it)
- XXL Grow Tent with specialised filters to provide clean air exchange
- 2 x Chlorhexidine Alcohol Wipes, 2 x Hand Wipes, 1x Facemask, 2 x Sterile Needles
- 1 x SporeKit™ – Our signature gourmet spore syringe testing kit
- Sterile Gloves (If selected)
- Online Instructions
XL MonoBox™ Grow Kit ft. MycoWave™ Substrate
The original XL version we introduced in 2021 includes a substrate you will eventually prepare yourself using a microwave or a pot!
You receive everything you need.
- 1x Sterile Grain SpawnTub™ (approx. 650ml Rye Grain)
- 1.6L HEPA-Filtered Grow Box
- 1000ml MycoWave™ Substrate
- XL Grow Tent with specialised filters to provide clean air exchange
- 2 x Chlorhexidine Alcohol Wipes, 2 x Hand Wipes, 1 x Facemask, 2 x Sterile Needles
- 1 x SporeKit™ – Our signature gourmet spore syringe testing kit
- Sterile Gloves (If selected)
- Online Instructions
You Will Need
The kit does not come with any mushroom spores. You will need to source 1.5–2 ml of gourmet spore/culture solution for the XL and 3–4 ml 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 colonised 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.
Inoculation Options:
Spore/Culture Syringe
This method is explained in the guide. You will inject 1.5–2 ml of solution into each SpawnTub through the rubber Inject-thru port in the lid.
G2G
If you have a SpawnTub full of colonised grain and wish you had more, fast, then simply open your SpawnTub inside a clean area, like a home-made Still-Air Box, and shake some of those mycelium-covered grains into a new SpawnTub (or 5 or 20!) and in just a few days watch as those new SpawnTubs explode with white mushroom mycelium!
You see, all those grains are inoculation points and can accelerate colonisation to completion in just a few days. Our SpawnTubs are superior to grain bags.
Agar
Trading mushroom samples on agar and want to grow that exciting species? No problem, with the MonoBox Grow Kit you can simply open the lid and transfer a wedge into the SpawnTub!
The Perfect Incubation Temperature (when using spores)
Gourmet spore syringes are never sterile, no matter what a vendor might tell to sell a product!
With this in mind, stay between 18-20°C or 64-68°F after injecting our kits with gourmet spores.
Getting this right will drastically reduce the chance of failure.
Though incubating at hotter temperatures will speed up mycelial growth more than it does at 20°C, it will turbocharge the rate at which other nasties can grow!
And trust us, nasties will have found their way on to the mushroom caps prior to the spore printing process (and sneak their way into spore syringes).
Mycelium will actually outrun a lot of contaminants, just give it a fighting chance with the right temperature!
Legal disclaimer
All products sold on cylocybe.co.uk, without exception, are intended for legal use. When a customer mentions illegality, we will swiftly end the conversation, cancel their order and refund their money (when applicable). Our strong stance is a necessary, critical measure to ensure the survival of our pride and joy shop.
While the purchase of Psilocybe genera spores are legal in most countries, including the United Kingdom, Europe, and most of the USA (for microscopy and taxonomic research), it is ultimately your responsibility to be aware of your local laws.
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A great place to start if you’re interested in growing your own medicinal or gourmet mushrooms. Works every time.
Everything needed to complete the job, I topped this up with a still air box.