FAQ

Protect the trunks only at the cut ends, not over the whole trunk. This is because you only need to prevent pests from gaining access and drying out the part of the trunk where you have ‘damaged’ it by applying mycelium to it.

You can protect the ends of the trunks with foil only, but in this case you need to protect the trunk from sunlight, as the trunk gets very hot under the foil.

Mycelium needs very little oxygen to grow, so the film does not hinder its respiration and does not need to be removed from the stems. Over time, it will fall off on its own.

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In the beginning, when the trunks are in the overgrowing stage, they can be kept in living spaces. Later on, when the fungi have taken over, it is better to keep them outdoors because of the spores they release into the environment. Large amounts of inhaled spores can cause allergies in humans.

It is best not to push the plugs deeper into the trunk, but to keep the end of the plug flush with the surface of the bark. Alternatively, the holes in the trunk can be much longer than the plug itself – this allows the mycelium to penetrate even faster. In our case, even with paraffin, the holes are not greased and the mycelium outgrows them well.

Those “strange” fungi were probably already in the trunk before you introduced the mycelium. This sometimes happens with trunks taken from trees that are damaged, have cracked side branches or are old (trunk diameter greater than 30 cm). In such trees, many fungi are already present in the centre of the trunk, waiting for the day when the tree falls down and they start to sprout from it. It is very difficult to believe that the mycelium we have sold you is dead, because we grow it from cultures of known and regularly checked quality, we keep it at a low temperature all the time to prevent it from ageing and dying, we renew it, and it is always grown in completely sterile conditions to prevent contamination by bacteria or mould.

With 300 plugs, you can make about a quarter of a cubic metre of wood.

In our experience, beech trunks 40cm in diameter and 80cm long will produce mushrooms twice a year for up to eight years. However, this depends mainly on the type of mushroom you want to grow and the type of wood used.

Hardwood chips are a suitable substrate, especially for oysters. However, the regrowth will be slower and the crop will take longer to establish, so care should be taken to ensure that the substrate does not dry out too much during the regrowth process.