White Oyster Mushroom - Pleurotus Florida - Mushroom Sawdust Spawn
You receive ready colonized mushroom spawn made from organic raw material (wood, rye bran from organic farming) for inoculation of substrate. Inoculation with sawdust spawn is usually more efficient than working with grain spawn. Sawdust is a by-product and more cost efficient and environmental sustainable than grain that have to be produced. Because of this large quantities of spawn can be produced for a lower price. Expected harvest yield is up to 70 % of the fresh dry weight of substrate divided on several flushes over 3 to 5 months.
Suitable Substrate: straw, paper, coffee grounds, pulp of coffee beans, hardwood (poplar, oak, alder, aspen, maple, birch, ash, beech, willow, elm)
Suitable method of cultivation: bales of straw, wood logs, mushroom bed / patch, indoor mycelium bags for cultivation in a greenhouse
Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Pleurotaceae
Genus: Pleurotus
Species: Pleurotus florida
Spores: white to yellowish to lavender grey, more or less cylindrical, 7,5 - 11 x 3 - 4µ
Growing conditions:
Phase 1: Mycelium growth
Temperature: 24 - 29 °C
Humidity: 90 - 100 %
Duration: 8 - 14 days CO2: >5,000 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 1 per hour Light: n/a
Phase 2: Primorday formation / Fruiting initiation
Temperature: 10 - 24 (27) °C
Humidity: 95 - 100%
Duration: 3 - 5 days CO2: 400-800 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 5 - 7 per hour
Light: 1,000 - 1,500 (2,000) lux
Phase 3: Fruiting and Harvest
Temperature: 18 - 24°C
Humidity: 95 %
Duration: 3 - 5 Days CO2: 400-800 ppm
Fresh air exchange: 5 - 7 per hour
Light: 1,000 - 1,500 (2,000) lux
Cropping cycle: Every 7 - 10 days for three flushes
These large quantities of spawn can be produced for a lower price
Wanlam Kumar