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 a 35% yield.
| Binomial nomenclature | Lentinula edodes | |
| Old nomenclature | None | |
| Inoculation rate | mix with ± 1% spawn | |
| Natural substrate | composition: | 80% hardwood, mixed fine + coarse 10% cereals 10% bran |
| humidity: | 62-63 % | |
| Incubation | room temperature: | 23 °C |
| substrate temperature: | 25 °C | |
| duration: | 13-15 days | |
| Primordia induction | (night time)* temperature: | |
| relative humidity: | ||
| Fruiting conditions | room temperature: | 14-17 °C |
| relative humidity: | 85-95 % | |
| CO2-concentration: | 600-1400 ppm | |
| light: | 500-1000 lux | |
| Flushes | number: | 3-5 |
| interval: | 14 à 16 days | |
| between flushes: | temperature increase up to 19-24 °C, CO2 up to 1500-2800 ppm, humidity down to 85-90% | |
| bud induction: | immerse or irrigate substrate for 12 hours | |
| Total production cycle | ||
| Average yield | 250 g to 300 g saleable mushrooms per kg fresh substrate† | |
