Product Description
Spawn for professional mushroom producers | 4th generation of mycelium | 5 liter Microsac. Mycelium inoculated from mother spawn bottle or bag. Certified axenic mycelium on sterilized grain, meant for further multiplication. Each portion is double-tested, axenic, and packed in a sealed Microsac.
Cultivation Info
Mushroom production
| Binomial nomenclature | Pleurotus ostreatus var. Florida | |
| Old nomenclature | None | |
| Inoculation rate | mix with ± 2% spawn | |
| Natural substrate | hardwood / (wheat) straw | |
| Incubation | room temperature: | 20-22 °C |
| substrate temperature: | 25-30 °C | |
| duration: | 12-14 days | |
| Primordia induction | (night time)* temperature: | lower to 6-15 °C |
| relative humidity: | 90- 95 % | |
| Fruiting conditions | room temperature: | (11) 13-20 (28)°C |
| relative humidity: | 85% | |
| CO2-concentration: | less than 1000 ppm | |
| light: | 800- 1500 lux | |
| Flushes | number: | 2-3 |
| interval: | 8-10 days | |
| between flushes: | relative humidity increase to 90-95%% | |
| Total production cycle | Ca. 3 months | |
| Average yield | 200 to 250 g saleable mushrooms per kg fresh substrate† | |
*Primordia are induced by a shock. For most mushroom species, this is done with a thermal shock, which is defined by the minimum temperature during the day-night cycle.
†Mushroom weight immediately after harvesting, and wetted substrate weight prior to inoculation.
Important remark: these cultivation guidelines in our technical data sheets are a compilation of the data given to us by experienced cultivators. Individual differences in the cultivation conditions can seriously affect the results.
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