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Lentinula edodes

Shiitake

Strain: M 3770

 Lentinula edodes - Shiitake Mushroom

Qualities:

  • excellent winter strain
  • quality fruit bodies
  • very suitable for stem cultivation

Characteristics:

This Shiitake likes the cold.  This is expressed by slowly developing and growing, though beautiful fruit bodies of the donko-type: dark-brown, nicely scaled, heavy and short-stemmed.  In warmer growing circumstances the flesh becomes thinner and the colour lighter.  With cultivation on substrate blocks, a ripening phase of 4,5 months needs to be taken into account.

Origin

Far East

Recommended substrate

composition:

80% hardwood, mixed fine + coarse
10% cereals
10% bran

humidity:

62-63 %

Recommended bag

Microsac type PPB50/SEU4/V40-51

Filling of the bag

before or after heat treatment: 3 à 4 kg/ bag

Heat treatment

sterilisation, by preference at 121 °C

Inoculation

mix with ± 1% spawn

Incubation

room temperature:

23 °C

substrate temperature:

25 °C

duration:

13-15 days

Ripening phase

room temperature:

17- 19 °C

duration:

ca. 110 days

Bud induction

unwrap substrates and put them in the fruiting room

Fruiting conditions

room temperature:

14-17 °C

relative humidity:

85 %

CO2-concentratie:

2000-3000 ppm

light:

500-1000 lux

Flushes

number:

3-5

interval:

14 à 16 days

between flushes:

temperature increase up to 19-21 °C

bud induction:

immerse or irrigate substrate for 12 hours

Average yield

250 g to 300 g saleable mushrooms per kg fresh substrate

Important remark: the cultivation guidelines in our technical data sheets are a compilation of the data given to us by experienced cultivators.  Individual differences in the cultivation conditions can seriously affect the results.