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Organic Turkey Tail - Trametes versicolor - Sawdust Spawn
for organic mushroom cultivation
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Organic Turkey tail - Trametes versicolor - Sawdust-Spawn
Synonyms: Many-Colored Polypore, Kawaratake, Yun Zhi, Cloud Mushroom
The Turkey Tail is very easy to identify and widespread. It is known all over the world for its variety of colours. Trametes versicolor thrives in tropical, subtropical and temperate climates. It also grows on almost all types of wood.
The colourful tramete contains valuable ingredients such as ergosterol and polysaccharides PSP (peptide) and PSK (crestin). These polysaccharides have been the focus of cancer research in Asia since the 1980s.
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, spawn bags for indoor greenhouses
Suitable substrates: hardwood
Suitable woods: birch, beech, oak, alder, aspen, poplar, elm and fruit trees like apple and cherry
Outdoors: this strain produces fruiting bodies in summer
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 wooden chips are 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 hand inoculator.
Suitable for beginners
Large quantities for commercial mushroom cultivation available upon request.
Taxonomy:
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: unischere position (incertae sedis)
Order: stem-porlings (Polyporales)
Family: Polyporaceae (stem porling relatives)
Genus: Trametes (Trametes)
Species: Trametes versicolor
Spores: 5 - 6 x 1,5 - 2 µ, cylindrical, soft, slightly curved, whitish
Growing conditions:
Phase 1: Mycelial growth
temperature: 24 - 29°C
Humidity: 90 - 100%.
Duration: 14 - 21 days
CO2: >5,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 1 per hour
Light:n/a
Phase 2: Primordia formation / Fruiting initiation
Temperature: 10 - 24 (up to 27) °C
Humidity: 95 - 100%
Duration: 7 - 14 days
CO2: 400 - 800 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 5 - 7 per hour
Light: 500 - 2,000 lux
Phase 3: Fruiting and harvest
Temperature: 18 - 24°C
Humidity: 85 - 90%
Duration: 45 - 70 days
CO2: 500 - 1,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 5 - 7 per hour
Light: 500 - 2,000 lux
Harvesting cycle: 2 - 3 crops, can be expected in a 3 month period
