What are the key points of cultivation techniques for the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom?
The curly-haired mushroom usually refers to the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom, also known as Tibetan golden mushroom, a precious edible and medicinal fungus endemic to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with high nutritional value and therapeutic health benefits. So how is the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom cultivated? What are the key technical points?
In fact, we unfortunately have to tell rural entrepreneurs who want to cultivate the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom that it has high requirements for its growing environment and is extremely difficult to culture. On the one hand, the natural ecological environment in which the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom grows is difficult to simulate, and on the other, its growth process is not yet well understood; both may be important factors in why its artificial domestication and cultivation are difficult to achieve.
Therefore, at present it is mostly a wild species, mainly distributed in Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan and other places on alpine meadows or grasslands at an altitude of 3200-4800m, where it can form mycorrhizae with pasture grasses and form mushroom rings on the grassland.
So we can only first make an analysis of the growth patterns of the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom. Perhaps artificial cultivation of the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom is not far off?
1. The yellow-green curly-haired mushroom's demand for precipitation
The amount of precipitation directly affects whether the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom fruits or not. In places with abundant precipitation, the yield is large and the mushroom shape is robust, and precipitation promotes every growth stage of the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom.
2. The yellow-green curly-haired mushroom's demand for temperature and light
Temperature and light intensity affect the length of the entire growth period of the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom.
3. Growth period characteristics of the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom
The decline and growth process of the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom can be divided into:
(1) Primordium stage
The body is very small, with only a small point of the entire fruiting body emerging above the ground, the size of a grain of rice; this is the stage when the yellow-green curly-haired mushroom transitions from the vegetative growth tissue stage of the mycelium to the reproductive growth stage of the fruiting body.
(2) Button stage
From the size of a mung bean to a peanut, with the cap diameter <1cm, and the interior of the fruiting body just beginning to develop.
(3) Growth stage
The cap begins to grow rapidly, and later scales appear in layers.
(4) Cap-opening stage
The cap begins to open, with some reaching a diameter of 20cm, and releases spores.
(5) Decline stage
Spore release ends, and the growth form gradually declines.
Friendly reminder: The yellow-green curly-haired mushroom is delicious and nutritious, containing 18 kinds of amino acids (except glutamine and asparagine), a variety of vitamins such as vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and minerals, and especially a very high content of “selenium”.