The beech mushroom is one of the popular edible mushrooms cultivated worldwide. The cultivation takes place in autumn and winter. The texture is firm and crunchy with a delicate mild, sweet flavor. People say that its tastes fresher than the oyster mushroom. Its context is thicker than that of Pholiota nameko and its character is … Continue reading Do this to increase the mycelium growth rate | Beech mushroom
How to find the best substrate for Black Poplar Mushroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ivR6grQfU Transcription Optimizing the growth and yield of any mushroom starts with a high-quality mycelium. Today’s research paper investigated several different agar media for the cultivation of Agrocybe aegerita, better known as the Black Poplar Mushroom. This mushroom grows in nature on living and decaying stumps of trees such as poplar, willow, black poplar, ash, … Continue reading How to find the best substrate for Black Poplar Mushroom
Optimum Growing Conditions for the Mycelium of Lion’s Mane
https://youtu.be/8hFFrXdnT-o Transcript Growing high-quality mushrooms depends on finding the best mushroom strain. It is, therefore, necessary to run experiments to analyze the vegetative growth of several strains. Today’s research paper addressed this topic and investigated different growing conditions of four strains of Hericium erinaceus, better known as the Lion’s Mane. All four strains were grown … Continue reading Optimum Growing Conditions for the Mycelium of Lion’s Mane
Optimizing Culture Media | Pleurotus sapidus
https://youtu.be/MPUbF4oHyQU Transcript The success of your mushroom farm depends on the reliability of your production. To secure a constant production with a high-quality yield, the availability of good quality spawn is necessary. This itself depends on identifying suitable agar media, which leads to the vigorous growth of the mycelium after the transfer. Therefore, today’s research … Continue reading Optimizing Culture Media | Pleurotus sapidus
Optimized Culture Conditions | Reishi
https://youtu.be/NKF31_b49hY Transcript Ganoderma lucidum, better known under the name Reishi, is one of the most famous medicinal mushrooms worldwide. As every cultivation starts with the cultivation of the mycelium, today’s research paper compares eight different strains on ten various agar media with each other. The goal: To find the optimal nutritional and environmental conditions for … Continue reading Optimized Culture Conditions | Reishi
Finding the right culture media
Before we as mushroom farmers can grow mushrooms, we have to cultivate our mushroom strains first. This could be done by a company from which we buy our spawn or culture media, or we prepare the culture media ourselves. The type of culture media you or the company chooses determines the quality of the strain … Continue reading Finding the right culture media