Our substrates are produced FRESH for you, so the production time is approximately 3 - 6 weeks.
Organic Turkey Tail - Trametes versicolor - Grain Spawn
for organic mushroom cultivation
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Organic Turkey tail - Trametes versicolor - Grain spawn
Synonyms: butterfly mushroom, Coriolus versicolor, colourful tramete, kawaratake
The 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 greenhouse
Suitable substrates: hardwood
Suitable woods: poplar, oak, alder, aspen, acorn, beech, birch, ash, willow and elm
Outdoors: this strain produces fruiting bodies in summer
Birch, beech, oak, alder, aspen, poplar, elm and fruit trees such as apple, cherry etc.
This breeding strain bears fruit when grown outdoors in summer.
You receive fully colonised grain spawn on organic raw materials for inoculating
fruiting substrates.
1 autoclave bag with approx. 3 litres of mushroom spawn is suitable for inoculating 5 - 15 substrate bags,
1 autoclave bag with approx. 6 litres of mushroom spawn is suitable for inoculating 10 - 30 substrate bags.
Only recommended for advanced mushroom growers!
Bulk quantities for commercial mushroom cultivation on request.
Taxonomy:
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: unischere position (incertae sedis)
Order: Polyporales (Polyporales)
Family: Polyporaceae (Polyporaceae)
Genus: Trametes (Trametes)
Species: Trametes versicolor
Spores: 5 - 6 x 1.5 - 2 µ, cylindrical, soft, slightly curved, whitish in colour
Growing conditions:
Phase 1: Mycelium growth
Temperature: 24 - 29 °C
Humidity: 90 - 100 %
Duration: 14 - 21 days
CO2: > 5,000 ppm
Room air exchange: 1 per hour
Light:n/a
Phase 2: Primordia formation / initiation of fruiting
Temperature: 10 - 24 (up to 27) °C
Humidity: 95 - 100 %
Duration: 7 - 14 days
CO2: 400 - 800 ppm
Room 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
Room air exchange: 5 - 7 per hour
Light: 500 - 2,000 lux
Harvest: 2 - 3 harvest waves can be expected over a period of 3 months
