This commercial strain is fast at colonizing, fruits in a wide range of temperatures, and produces a heavy first flush of beautiful, tasty shiitake mushrooms. This strain averages 1.25 lbs from a 5 lb supplemented sawdust block on the first flush. An additional 3 or more flushes are possible by resting the block, re-hydrating and striking the block in-between flushes. Like clockwork, with high humidity in the fruiting room on day 4 or 5, pins form and a week later you'll have terrific shiitake mushrooms!
Fruiting Substrates:
-Oak sawdust & wheat bran @ 15% supplementation
Colonizing Temperature:
65 to 78 F
Fruiting Temperature:
50 to 80 F
Fruiting Humidity:
94 to 98%
Air Exchanges:
4 to 6 per hour
All mushroom culture slants and petri dishes are guaranteed to be 100% clean, viable and proven fruiting strains of mushroom. Commercial strains are tested by growing and evaluating speed of colonization, fruit body form, and yield weight.
Slant cultures come in a 50ml conical centrifuge tube on nutrient agar.
Petri dish cultures come in a 100mm x 15mm petri dish on nutrient agar.