Kenny Nyhus Fadil – Home Mushroom Cultivation Author

Kenny Nyhus Fadil has been growing gourmet mushrooms at home for several years. What started with a single Lion’s Mane spawn bag in a humidified tub has turned into a working rotation of oyster, pink oyster, chestnut, and shiitake on a steady schedule. Every guide and parameter on this site has been tested in his own setup before publishing.

Background

Kenny started cultivating the way most home growers do — by ruining a block. His first Lion’s Mane attempt was a textbook contamination case: ambient spore load, no flow hood, and a substrate that turned green within a week. The first oyster fruit pinned cleanly out of a monotub two months later, and the dialed-in conditions stayed reproducible across the next three flushes. The journal entries from that learning curve became the first guides on Mycomansion.

He manages a small portfolio of niche websites focused on craftsmanship and self-sufficiency. Mycomansion is the project where the cultures, the substrates, the fruiting chambers, and the writing all live in the same workshop.

Specialties

• Sterile technique — agar transfers, liquid culture work, still-air boxes, flow-hood builds, and reading contamination signatures early
• Substrate preparation — masters mix, supplemented straw, hardwood pellet blends, and moisture-content targets for predictable colonization
• Spawn production — grain spawn rotation (rye, millet, oats), shake-and-incubate windows, and grain-to-substrate ratios that fruit cleanly
• Fruiting chambers — Martha tent designs, monotub configurations, ultrasonic humidifier sizing, and CO₂ targets specific to each species
• Species parameters — Lion’s Mane, Oyster, Pink Oyster, Chestnut, and Shiitake temperature, humidity, FAE, and harvest-window data from real flushes
• Equipment selection — pressure cookers, hygrometers, controllers, scales, and the smallest reliable kit that actually delivers consistent flushes

Testing Approach

Every guide on Mycomansion is built from a real cultivation cycle — substrate sourced, sterilized, inoculated, colonized, and fruited in Kenny’s own setup before the article goes up. Tool reviews come after at least one full grow cycle of use. Substrate comparisons are run side-by-side on identical species so the colonization speed and yield difference between, say, masters mix and supplemented straw shows up in the photographs.

Connect

Reach out through the Mycomansion contact page.