Beech Mushroom, brown - Sawdust Spawn for organic growing

Beech Mushroom, brown - Hypsizygus tessellatus - SPAWN FOR ORGANIC / BIO CULTIVATION ON Wood logs

Syn.: Buna-shimeji, Yamabiko, Hon-shimeji (Mountain Echo Mushroom), Tamo-motashi

This mushroom is considered one of the most "gourmet" of the Oyster-like mushrooms, because of his fine textured. Recently, this mushroom has been attributed to having anti-cancer properties. The mushroom is hemispheric to plane and marbled with "water spots" on the cap. The measuring is 2-7 cm. Cap margin inrolled to incurved.

Production time: Spawn is made fresh after ordering, production time 3 to 6 weeks.
This product is fresh produce and should be processed immediatly after delivery.
If the product cannot be processed immediatley, it can be stored in the fridge at 4 ° Celsius for a maximum of two weeks. 
 

Beech Mushroom - Hypsizygus tessellatus - Mushroom spawn for wood logs
Certified for organic mushroom cultivation
(Organic control station: AT-BIO-301, Austria Bio Garantie)
1 autoclave bag approx. 3 kg - 6 liter
Suitable for inoculation of 25 to 30 linear meters of wood.

You receive ready colonized mushroom spawn made from organic raw material (wood, rye bran from organic farming) for inoculation of wood logs.

Suitable woods are poplar, oak, alder, aspen, maple, birch, ash, beech, willow or elm.
Fruiting season for this strain is autumn.

For quantities of 10 or more logs inoculation with sawdust spawn is usually more efficient than working with dowels. Sawdust is a byproduct and more cost efficient and environmentaly sustainable than dowels that have to be produced. Because of this large quantities of spawn can be produced for a lower price. Sawdust spawn is suitable for the borehole inoculation method and the cutting inoculation method. Expected harvest yield is up to 10 % of the fresh woods weight divided on several flushes over 3 to 5 years.

For the borehole-method we recommend the usage of a mushroom drill, and an inoculation stick or a hand inoculator.
Larger quantities for commercial mushroom growing on request.

Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Thricholomataceae
Genus: Hypsizygus
Species: Hypsizygus tessellatus brown
Spores: white, spherical to egg-shaped, relatively small, 4,0 - 6,5 x 3,5 - 5,0µ


Growing conditions:
Phase 1: Mycelium growth
Temperature: 21 - 24°C
Humidity: 95 - 100%
Duration: 30 - 45 days
CO2: >5,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange:0 - 1 per hour
Light: n/a

Phase 2: Primordia formation / Fruiting initiation
Temperature: 10 - 15°C
Humidity: 98 - 100%
Duration: 7 - 12 days
CO2: 500 - 1,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 4 - 8 per hour
Light: 400 - 600 lux

Phase 3: Fruiting and Harvest
Temperature: 13 - 18°C
Humidity: (85) 90 - 95%
Duration: 5 - 10 days
CO2: 2,000 - 4,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 2 - 4 per hour
Light: 400 - 600 lux
Cropping cycle: Two crops, 3 weeks apart