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 25% yield.
| Binomial nomenclature | Trametes versicolor | |
| Old nomenclature | Coriolus versicolor | |
| Inoculation rate | mix with ± 1% spawn | |
| Natural substrate | composition: | 80% hardwood, mixed fine + coarse, 10% cereals, 10% bran |
| Incubation | room temperature: | 20-22 °C |
| substrate temperature: | 25-30 °C | |
| duration: | 19- 22 days | |
| Primordia induction | (night time)* temperature: | lower to 6-15 °C |
| relative humidity: | 90- 95 % | |
| Fruiting conditions | room temperature: | (5-) 10-17 (-20) °C |
| relative humidity: | 85% | |
| CO2-concentration: | less than 1000 ppm | |
| light: | 800- 1500 lux | |
| Flushes | number: | 2-3 |
| interval: | 1-2 weeks | |
| between flushes: | relative humidity increase to 90% | |
| Total production cycle | Ca. 3 months | |
| Average yield | 200 to 250 g saleable mushrooms per kg fresh substrate | |
