How to grow Shiitaka

Shiitake - mushrooms with healing properties that grow perfectly at home. They are not addictable, so experienced gardeners receive a decent profit from their sale. In this article we will tell you in detail how to grow Shiitaka.

Shiitake is continuously fruit from May to October, but for this you have to create acceptable conditions. At the beginning of the spring, prepare the substrate, to do this, select entire stumps or timber bars. Choose trees without visible damage to the crust, it is not allowed to use the stumps on which other mushrooms grow. Try to cut the branches before the appearance of the kidney, it is at this time in the wood most of all useful substances and vitamins. Do not allow wood drying. Before sowing culture, it is necessary to boil the substrate or hold the sawn trunks about a day in the water. This will allow to be saturated with water moisture, which will speed up the growth process of Shiitake.

Please note the temperature in the afternoon where mushrooms grow, should not exceed + 16 ° C. At night, it is possible to reduce the temperature to + 10 ° C. The change of heating levels favorably affects the growth of culture. Now drill holes in the barrels of a hole with a depth of 6 cm. The distance between the recesses should be no more than 10 cm. In these holes, pour the mycelium into these holes and close the holes with wet cotton. If you plan to grow mushrooms in the garden, bother the trunk to the ground by 2/3 of its length. This will prevent the drying of wood and will increase the fungi for several years.

If you do not have the opportunity to use logs for growing mushrooms, you can try to explode culture in wood sawdust. To do this, mix the sawdust with squeezes or bran. This will enrich the environment for growing mushroom colonies. Before boarding mycelium, boil the sawdust in water for 1 hour, it will destroy bacteria and other mushrooms.

For the mushroom landing, simply place it on the substrate and cover the film container. At the initial stage of germination of mushrooms, the temperature should be + 20 ° C. After mushrooms appear on the surface of the sawdust, you can reduce the heating to + 16-17 ° C. When culture finally arrives, the substrate will become white. You can use mycelium to use bags with substrate. Before boarding the mushrooms, it is necessary to make a deepening and pour mycelium into them.

You can use a straw as a substrate. For this, it is boiled 2 hours in a fabric bag, and then plant a fungouncing into it. Best laying mycelium layers. On the straw layer, place the fungne and close it with the substrate. You can make sowing in three rows. In this case, you need to wait 2-3 waves of the crop.

There are special blocks for growing shiitake. They already contain all the beneficial substances and fertilizers. It is not necessary to boil them before boarding the mushroom.

Compared to shiitake peels, they grow slowly, so from the moment of landing before harvesting can pass 6 months. Before collecting mushrooms, reduce the humidity level up to 50%. This will make it possible to form on the surface of a tight film hats, which will prevent damage to mushrooms.