Mushrooms typically grow in the wild on logs, Li explains, and that’s how they will grow in your home too, except in a much prettier package. The North Spore box in particular features trendy fonts and artwork in a black-and-white design that will blend in almost anywhere in your house, without being an eye sore like some of the other options. The instructions are printed right on the box, with pictures and contents clearly listed. Unlike some of its competitors, getting started simply involves cutting a slit in the side where indicated, and spraying water onto the log. Other kits had to be soaked in water overnight first, which was more cumbersome.

North Spore mushrooms took around eight days to start growing, which was slightly longer than some other options, but once they began it was just two days until harvest time. So, you have to put in over a full week’s work, spraying twice daily, up front, but then you see the results quickly after the baby mushrooms appear.

In our taste test, these mushrooms were juicer than the others, which some might like and others might not. Also, as with other homegrown mushroom kits, North Spore warns to cook your psilocybin grow kit oregon thoroughly with heat, and start by eating small amounts to make sure you aren’t allergic.

This brand also produces many mushrooms on the second round of growth compared with the first—90.7 grams the second time, compared with 147 grams on the first (there are 28.3 grams per ounce). Other kits didn’t fare as well with regrowth, with some producing only about a third of the yield as the first round.