A Detailed Guide to Pine Mushroom Cultivation Techniques and Management Key Points
Before planting pine mushrooms, you must first build a mushroom shed in a higher terrain area, then prepare some poultry manure, wheat straw, corn stalks and other nutrients to ferment together, and thoroughly disinfect and sterilize them. When the nutrient temperature drops to 25 degrees, spread the nutrients on the mushroom bed, then inoculate at a spacing of 10cm. In the early stage, control the humidity at around 70%, and later adjust it to around 80%. Keep the temperature at 10-18 degrees and the pine mushrooms will grow.
Detailed Explanation of Pine Mushroom Cultivation Techniques:
1. Mushroom House Preparation
When growing mushrooms, you need to prepare the construction of a mushroom house, and the most common mushroom house nowadays is a greenhouse structure. The mushroom house is generally built in a higher terrain area, but the overall ground should be relatively flat, with relatively open surroundings and good ventilation. The greenhouse should be made of scattered-light material, and the ground needs to be finished with cement so it is easy to wash. Mushroom beds should be set up inside the mushroom house; they can be made of wood, iron, or brick. Finally, windows or rolling blinds should be left in place to enhance ventilation.
2. Nutrient Composting
The preparation of mushroom cultivation nutrients is also a very important step. The main ingredients of the nutrients are livestock manure, wheat straw, bran, rice straw, corn stalks, etc. Composting of the nutrients generally begins around July. We need to sun-dry the manure, cut the other materials, then mix in an appropriate amount of gypsum, soak thoroughly with water or urine, and then pile it up in layers of one layer of grass material and one layer of manure for fermentation. Generally, the pile needs to be turned once every three to four days, and after about half a month it is roughly ready.
3. Disinfection and Sterilization
After the nutrient composting is completed, we first need to thoroughly disinfect and sterilize the mushroom house once, then move the nutrients into the mushroom house and spread them evenly on the mushroom beds. Then close the doors and windows of the mushroom house, raise the indoor temperature to around 60 degrees, and after three hours lower the temperature to around 50 degrees, maintaining this temperature for one week to let the nutrients ferment thoroughly. Moreover, during this fermentation process, the nutrients can also be disinfected and sterilized, so that only beneficial microorganisms remain in the nutrients, which is greatly beneficial to the growth of mushrooms.
4. Inoculation and Casing Soil
When the temperature of the nutrients drops to around 25 degrees, mushroom inoculation can be carried out. We need to level the nutrients on the mushroom beds, and the thickness of the nutrients on each mushroom bed should reach about 15 cm. Then use the hole-broadcast method for inoculation, with a spacing of about 10 cm between each plant. If you want to increase its mycelium growth speed, you can sow as densely as possible. After inoculation, the humidity of the nutrients needs to be maintained, and the ventilation of the mushroom house should be increased. Finally, evenly cover the nutrients with fine fertile soil, and then wait for the mycelium to grow.
5. Fruiting Management
Fruiting management is the most critical step in mushroom cultivation, as it relates to the fruiting situation of the mushrooms, that is, the yield and quality of the mushrooms. The most important aspects are water management and temperature management. We need to maintain the humidity of the nutrients. In the early fruiting stage, the humidity is generally around 70%, and later it can gradually return to around 80% to 90%. When watering, we should follow the principle of small amounts and frequent watering. During the mycelium growth period, the temperature of the fruiting house is best kept at around 10 degrees to 18 degrees. During the fruiting period, raise the temperature to around 20 to 28 degrees, which can speed up fruiting. When the mushrooms grow to a certain size, they can be harvested.
The above is the relevant introduction to pine mushroom cultivation techniques. We hope it is helpful to everyone.