Shiitake
organic plug spawn
Organic Shiitake plug spawn (approx. 300 pcs or 1000 pcs)
growing kit allows you to create a sustainable source of
fresh mushrooms with a distinctive, rich flavour right in your own garden.
Price range: 23,00 € through 60,00 €
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Organic Shiitake plug spawn (approx. 300 pcs or 1000 pcs).
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Growing aromatic edible mushrooms has never been easier. Our Shiitake plug spawn growing kit allows you to create a sustainable source of fresh mushrooms with a distinctive,
full flavour in your home garden.
In addition to their culinary delights, that highlight their flavour, Shiitake are also valued for their long history of diverse use in traditional medicinal practices.
Shiitake mushrooms are a highly renowned and delicious edible and medicinal mushroom, called “Xiang-gu” in China,
which means fragrant mushroom.
As a traditional dish, they are appreciated all over the world, especially in Japan, China and other Asian countries.
Their firm texture and rich, meaty flavour make them a popular choice for many recipes:
grilled,
in soups, risottos or pasta,
in sauces and wok dishes,
as a meat substitute in vegan cooking.
Organic Shiitake plug spawn is ready for immediate use. Simply insert the mycelium-coated wooden plugs
into fresh, healthy hardwood tree trunks, such as:
beech,
oak,
hornbeam.
The spawn gradually colonizes the wood and then starts to form fruiting bodies. The first mushrooms usually
appear in spring or autumn, and their growth can keep you happy for several seasons.
This method of cultivation is ideal for:
shaded courtyards,
gardens,
damp cellars or other outdoor or even indoor areas.
Trunks with Shiitake spawn can also withstand low temperatures (even below -20 °C). With proper care, they can
bear fruit for 4-6 years. Over the whole period, 50-60 kg of mushrooms can be obtained from 1 m³ of wood.
For an extra spice to your menu, check out our range of other mushrooms to grow at home, such as Beech Oyster Mycelium.
Do you want to indulge your taste buds while enjoying the feeling of of self-sufficiency?
Growing Shiitake mushrooms in your own backyard is a great option for those who appreciate quality, taste and natural production.
If you store fruit or potatoes in a cellar and the room is not sufficiently ventilated, the gases emitted by the fruit can have an undesirable effect on the fungi, resulting in deformation of the hats.
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.
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.
No. A cracked trunk means that another fungus species has already overgrown it and will most likely prevent the fungus you are about to plant from growing on the trunk.
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.
The cultivated mushrooms whose spawn we produce and sell here are rot fungi, not parasites. So there is no need to worry about them attacking healthy trees in the vicinity.
Natural light can be successfully replaced by artificial light. However, mushrooms exposed to UV light have a much higher vitamin D content.
Trunks inoculated with mycelium from shiitakes, oystercatchers, winter parakeets, white oystercatchers and honeysuckles can be kept outdoors all the time, as these species are frost-tolerant. Ganoderma lucidum is sensitive to frost and it is advisable to protect the trunks inoculated with it from frost.
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.
There can be about 2/3 of the stalls in a room, because we need space to walk between them. This means that in a room of dimensions 8m x 2m = 16m x 2/3 = 10.7 square metres of standing room. The racks usually have four shelves (the shelf spacing should be about half a metre), which means 10.7 x 4 = 43 square metres of functional space. Approximately 9 growing sets can be placed per square metre of shelving, which means that in a space of 8 m x 2 m, 9 x 10.7 x 4 = 385 growing sets can be placed on the shelving. One kit will grow about 0.7 kg of mushrooms over the entire growing season (which can last up to six months), which means that you can produce 385 x 0.7 kg = 269 kg of fresh mushrooms in half a year in such a space.
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.
You can apply mycelium to wood at any time. If you use mycelium on cereal grains and apply it to wood before winter, you need to protect it well from rodents and birds, as they are very keen to eat it. When applying mycelium to wood in the run-up to winter, bear in mind that mycelium growth will stop during the winter months and resume in the spring. The overgrowth period will increase proportionately.
In principle, wood harvested during the dormant season is preferable. It will yield a few percent more mushrooms. If you do not grow mushrooms on a large scale, the difference in yield will not be so great that you will have to choose and wait for the right time to cut the trees. We just graft the trunks when we have the wood to do so.
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.
One cubic metre of wood can yield up to 64 kg of fresh mushrooms over a growing season of a couple of years.
With 300 plugs, you can make about a quarter of a cubic metre of wood.
One cubic metre of trunks produces a mass of fresh mushrooms equivalent to up to 20% of the dry weight of the wood over the entire growing season (which lasts several years). That is to say, one cubic metre of average wood (850 kg dry weight, which must be reduced by a third because there is so much space between the trunks) can yield 112 kg of fresh mushrooms (applies to beech oyster mushrooms).
We do not have good experience with the use of fruit tree stumps for mushroom cultivation, as they are often already cracked inside or resinous. If you do decide to grow mushrooms, we recommend you try beech oyster mushrooms, which have aggressive growth and will cope best with the situation.
The rate of emergence depends in principle on the “maturity” of the substrate. In principle, however, the mushrooms emerge at room temperature within 14 days of opening the kit and reach their final size within a few days.
The spores released by the fungi during growth may accumulate on the crops themselves, but in our experience they will not germinate or cause other damage.
Conventional lamps are sufficient for lighting and additional lighting with a UV lamp is not necessary.
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