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How can you tell good straw mushroom spawn from bad? You need to know these few methods
Before cultivating straw mushrooms, the quality of the spawn must be assessed, and high-quality spawn should be selected whenever possible. The appearance of high-quality spawn is: thick and sturdy hyphae, uniform development of the upper and lower hyphae, and aerial hyphae that are white or semi-transparent. The specific identification methods are: 1. For spawn used for cultivation, the spawn age is around 30 days, the hyphae are thick, sturdy and dense white, there are light brown chlamydospores on the hyphae, and after removing the cotton plug, the aroma of straw mushrooms can be smelled. This kind of spawn is high-quality spawn; after sowing, it colonises the substrate quickly and grows vigorously. If there are very few chlamydospores, it means the hyphae are still young and tender, and it can be left to continue growing
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How Do You Assess the Quality of Edible Mushroom Spawn? Practical Methods to Help You Tell Good from Poor
The quality of edible mushroom spawn directly affects the success or failure of production and the level of yield. Therefore, assessing the quality of edible mushroom spawn is crucial for growers. 1. Direct visual observation and assessment. In appearance, if the mycelium is dense white, thick and strong, and elastic, it has strong vitality; if the spawn mycelium has shrunk, is dry and lacking in color, or the mycelium has autolyzed and produced a large amount of reddish-brown liquid, then its vitality has already weakened and it should no longer be used; if wood-block spawn remains hard and solid, it is spawn with strong vitality, but if the wood blocks have become softened and loose, then it has aged and is not
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