Note: These blocks require specific conditions such as temperature and humidity please read the fruiting conditions in the cultivation info.
If you require volumes of more than 24 blocks please contact a member of our team here.
For hobbyist’s and professional mushroom farmers alike, our mushroom fruiting blocks come fully inoculated and ready to fruit. Each block contains 4.5kg of inoculated substrate which can produce 25% yield.
| Binomial name | Hericium erinaceus | |
| Old nomenclature | None | |
| Inoculation rate | mix with ± 1% spawn | |
| Natural substrate | composition: | 80% hardwood, mixed fine + coarse) 10% cereals 10% bran |
| Incubation | room temperature: | 25 °C |
| substrate temperature: | 27 °C | |
| duration: | Ca. 20 days | |
| Primordia induction | (night time)* temperature: | 18-24 °C |
| relative humidity | 90- 95 % | |
| Fruiting conditions | room temperature: | 16-21 °C |
| relative humidity: | 85–95 % | |
| CO2-concentration: | 500-1000 ppm | |
| light: | Less than 500 lux | |
| Flushes | number: | 2 |
| interval: | ca. 2 weeks | |
| between flushes: | ||
| Total production cycle | ||
| Average yield | Approx. 150 g saleable mushrooms per kg fresh substrate† | |
