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This is also known as inoculation, spawning or adding spawn. Its main advantages are to reduce chances of contamination while giving mushrooms a firm beginning. [3] [4] Mycelium, or actively growing mushroom culture, is placed on a substrate—usually sterilized grains such as rye or millet—and induced to grow into those grains.
To produce shiitake mushrooms, 1 metre (3-foot) hardwood logs with a diameter ranging between 10–15 cm (4–6 in) are inoculated with the mycelium of the shiitake fungus. Inoculation is completed by drilling holes in hardwood logs, filling the holes with cultured shiitake mycelium or inoculum, and then sealing the filled holes with hot wax.
Lentinus shiitake (J.Schröt.) Singer (1936) Lentinus tonkinensis Pat. (1890) Lentinus mellianus Lohwag (1918) The mushroom's Japanese name shiitake is a compound word composed of shii (椎, Castanopsis), for the tree Castanopsis cuspidata that provides the dead logs on which it is typically cultivated, and take (茸, "mushroom"). [5]
These mushroom logs and mushroom growing kits let you grow edible mushrooms in almost any conditions. The post The 9 Best Mushroom Growing Kits and Logs appeared first on Taste of Home.
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