Best Mushroom Gifts for Your Fungi Friend (2025)

If the gift recipient is interested in growing their own mushrooms, they can grow anything they want in North Spore’s automated Boomr Bin monotub. The kit includes a sink with a lid, filters, hygrometer, humidifier, and fan to maintain air flow, although no instructions are provided. Because of this, it will take some extensive YouTube ing To set up, because assembly is not entirely intuitive. However, once the tank was up and running, I was able to grow almost endless amounts of blue, pink and yellow oyster mushrooms, as well as lion’s mane, and maintenance was very easy. (Just refill the humidifier as needed and make sure its tube is free of water plugs; I highly recommend putting the humidifier in place less sink to prevent this.)

You can use sterile substrate and Liquid fungal culture To grow anything from reishi and turkey tail to morels, or choose Easy mode Pre-pollinated fruiting mass. (North Spore even offers a Ithmaar block subscription Cucumbers.) If you choose clumps, be sure to choose a variety of mushrooms that you really like, as they are very lush – my current clump is in its fourth round of fruiting, with no signs of slowing down.—Kat Merck