Organic Pioppino - Agrocybe aegerita - Sawdust Spawn

Organic Pioppino- Agrocybe aegerita - Sawdust-Spawn 

Synonyms: Black Poplar, The Swordbelt Agrocybe, Yanagi-matsutake, Zhuzhuang-Tiantougu

This delicate edible mushroom with its typical nutty forest aroma is enjoying growing popularity worldwide, although it has been cultivated since ancient Rome. The young fruit bodies are brownish and hemispherical, later the mushroom cap increasingly flattens and is often somewhat cracked. The mushroom caps sit on elongated stalks with a ring. The flesh is firm and white, with a faint mealy smell.
This mushroom is extremely versatile: chopped finely and fried, baked as a filling or refined in a cream sauce, the Pioppino enhances meals, also meat and fish dishes. This mushroom should be harvested in good time, preferably before the veil tears. Then it is not only longer lasting but also more intense in flavor ​ ​

This fresh product is prepared fresh for you to order. The production time is around 3 - 6 weeks.
The mushroom spawn should be processed immediately after delivery.
If the product cannot be used immediately, it can be stored in the refrigerator at 4 °C for up to 2 weeks.
We recommend that you plan for this when ordering and making your preparations.

Suitable cultivation methods:
wood logs, mushroom patch, spawn bags for indoor greenhouse  

Suitable substrate: hardwood 
Suitable woods are maple, birch, beech, oak, alder, aspen, poplar, elm and willow
Outdoors: this strain produces fruiting bodies in autumn

You receive fully colonised sawdust spawn based on organic raw materials (wood, rye bran from organic cultivation) in bags specifically suitable for sterilisation. 

Information for cultivation on straw and substrate:
1 autoclave bag with app. 3 litres of mushroom spawn is suitable for inoculating 1 straw bale or 5 - 15 substrate bags
1 autoclave bag with app. 6 litres of mushroom spawn is suitable for inoculating 2 straw bales or 10 - 30 substrate bags.

Information for cultivation on wood:
When using our equipment (inoculation stick or hand inoculator) the sawdust spawn bags are suitable for:
1 autoclave bag with app. 3 litres of mushroom spawn is suitable for inoculating 12 - 15 linear metres of wood
1 autoclave bag with app. 6 litres of mushroom spawn is suitable for inoculating 25 - 30 linear metres of wood.

For quantities of 10 logs or more, inoculating with sawdust spawn ins usually more efficient than working with spawn dowels. The raw materials sawdust and wood chips re by-products and therefore more cost effective and sustainable than specially manufactured wooden dowels. As a result, sawdust spawn can also be produced cost-effectively in large quantities. Sawdust spawn is suitable for the drilling method and the cut inoculation method.The expected yield is up to 10% of the fresh wood weight, divided into several harvest waves over a period of 3 - 5 years.When utilising the drilling method we recommend using a mushroom drill and an inoculation stick or a hand inoculator.

Suitable for beginners. Large quantities for commercial mushroom cultivation available upon request.

Taxonomy:
Class: stander fungi (Basidiomycetes).
Subclass: cap fungi (Agaricomycetidae)
Order: Leaf fungi (Agaricales)
Family: Decoy fungi (Strophariaceae)
Genus: Ackerling (Agrocybe)
Species: Agrocybe aegerita
Spores: smooth, ovate to elliptic, brown, 9 - 11 x 6 - 6.5 µ

Growing conditions:
Phase 1: Mycelial growth
Temperature: 21 - 27°C
Humidity: 95 - 100%.
Duration: 20 - 28 days
CO2: >20,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 0 - 1 per hour
Light: n/a

Phase 2: Primordia formation / Fruiting initiation
Temperature: 10 - 16 °C
Humidity: 95 - 100
Duration: 7 - 14 days
CO2: <2,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 4 - 8 per hour
Light: 500 - 1,000 lux

Phase 3: Fruiting and harvest
Temperature: 13 - 18 °C
Humidity: 90 - 95%.
Duration: 4 - 6 days
CO2: <2,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 4 - 8 per hour
Light: 500 - 1,000 lux
 
Harvesting cycle: 2 crops, 10 - 14 days apart