What are the key points of the cultivation techniques for Pleurotus citrinopileatus?
Pleurotus citrinopileatus is a wild species domesticated in recent years; in the mainland, large-scale production has not yet been established to date, with only occasional small amounts appearing on the market, and its price is generally about 2 times that of the oyster mushroom, in some markets even reaching more than 3 times. It is believed that as people's living standards improve, Pleurotus citrinopileatus will have enormous market potential. So what are the cultivation techniques for Pleurotus citrinopileatus?
1. Substrate formula: use corn (2336, 0.00, 0.00%) cobs or rice straw as the main cultivation material, plus supplementary materials of 20% wheat bran, 5% corn flour, 2% lime, 1% gypsum, 1% sucrose, with a moisture content of 65% in the substrate.
2. Bagging and sterilization: use 17 cm X 45 cm X 0.04 cm pressure-resistant polyethylene plastic (11070, 30.00, 0.27%) bags, fill the mixed substrate into the bags, with appropriate tightness, and tie both ends tightly with string. Then place them in a brick-built atmospheric-pressure aseptic stove for sterilization; when the temperature reaches 100 degrees C, maintain a constant temperature for 8——10 hours, then turn off the fire, allow to cool naturally, and then take them out and place them in the inoculation room.
3. Cultivation substrate
Pleurotus citrinopileatus has many fruiting bodies, growing in clusters or bunches, and is golden yellow. Pleurotus citrinopileatus has strong growth vigor, fast fruiting, a short growth period and high yield; it can be cultivated both on log segments and in bags, and its mycelium has strong vitality, capable of growing and developing on sawdust media from broadleaf trees such as elm, poplar, birch and pagoda tree. It can also grow and develop on cottonseed hulls, waste cotton, corn cobs, peanut shells, bean hulls, wheat straw, rice straw, tea residue, and spent substrate from previously cultivated straw mushrooms and button mushrooms. Cultivating Pleurotus citrinopileatus with cottonseed hulls, waste cotton and corn cobs gives relatively higher yields.
4. Inoculation and culture
Move the sterilized substrate bags into the inoculation room; the inoculation room must be dry and clean, with the windows closed. Before inoculation, spray 10% lime water inside the room to purify the air. After about 15 minutes, inoculation can begin.