The Wonderbags difference
We are living in exciting times. Today everybody who respects and values the incredible healing power of functional and medicinal mushrooms can observe them in the comfort of their own home. However, not everybody is as good as Paul Stamets, and completing the full path from spores to mushrooms can be a tough journey for many of us.
It started with a kitchen table, a stack of grain jars, and more failed cultures than we care to count. We were fascinated by the quiet magic of mushrooms—how invisible threads could weave through wood and turn it into life—but the path from spore to microscope slide felt built for full‑time lab rats, not curious night‑owls.
So we asked a simple question: What if the hardest part—the sterile dance, the waiting, the contamination roulette—was already done before the box even arrived?
Months of trial batches later, Wonderbags were born: a fully colonised, room‑temperature bag that lets you skip straight to the good part—the moment the mycelium performs under your lens. After experimenting with all the different growth methods, types of substrates, grain, adding and removing components from the bags we came up with an ultimate solution - a perfect-sized bag, which features all the top-producing and top-performing varieties.
Wonderbags exist exclusively for home mycologists who want to observe mycelial behaviour—never for consumption. That stance keeps us comfortably inside Colorado’s Natural Medicine framework, which still bars public use and unlicensed distribution (see SB 23‑290 for the fine print).
Because each Wonderbag arrives fully colonised, the culture is already stronger than any stray microbe that might wander in. You set it on a shelf, keep it at normal room temperature, and almost right away you will have a living study specimen that all but teaches itself. The difficult, contamination‑prone stages are history; what’s left is the rewarding part—tracking growth, snapping photos, and collecting data while the mycelium races ahead.
In short: less hassle, more discovery. Open the box, start the notebook, and let the research unfold!