A Detailed Tutorial on the Latest Mushroom Cultivation Techniques and Methods

Mushrooms are a food that everyone loves, and chicken stewed with mushrooms in particular is a dish that everyone enjoys. There are actually many kinds of mushrooms on the market now, but most of them are cultivated using the same techniques. So do you know how mushrooms should be grown? How can they be grown better? What should you pay attention to? Now follow the editor and take a look at mushroom cultivation techniques.

1. Preparing the mushroom house

When growing mushrooms, you need to prepare the construction of a mushroom house, and the most common mushroom house now is a greenhouse. A mushroom house is generally built on higher ground, but the site as a whole should be relatively flat, with fairly open surroundings and good ventilation. The greenhouse should be made of a material that diffuses light, and the floor 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 improve ventilation.

2. Composting the nutrient material

Preparing the nutrient material for mushroom cultivation is also a very important step. The main ingredients of the nutrient material are livestock manure, wheat straw, bran, rice straw, corn stalks, and so on. Composting of the nutrient material generally begins around July. We need to dry the manure in the sun, cut the other materials into pieces, then mix in an appropriate amount of gypsum, soak it thoroughly with water or urine, and pile it up in alternating layers of straw and manure for fermentation. Generally, the pile needs to be turned once every three or four days, and after about half a month it is more or less ready.

3. Disinfection and sterilization

After the nutrient material has been composted, we first need to thoroughly disinfect and sterilize the mushroom house, then move the nutrient material into the mushroom house and spread it evenly on the mushroom beds. Then close the doors and windows of the mushroom house and raise the indoor temperature to about 60 degrees, and after three hours lower the temperature to about 50 degrees and maintain this temperature for a week so the nutrient material ferments completely. Moreover, during this fermentation process, the nutrient material can also be disinfected and sterilized, so that what remains in the nutrient material are beneficial microorganisms, which is greatly beneficial to the growth of mushrooms.

4. Inoculation and casing soil

When the temperature of the nutrient material drops to about 25 degrees, it is time to inoculate the mushrooms. We need to level the nutrient material on the mushroom beds, and the thickness of the nutrient material on each mushroom bed should reach about 15 cm. Then inoculate by the hole-spawning method, with the spacing between each spot at about 10 cm. If you want to increase the speed of mycelial growth, you can sow it as densely as possible. After inoculation, the moisture of the nutrient material needs to be maintained, and the ventilation of the mushroom house should be increased. Finally, evenly cover the nutrient material with fine fertile soil, and then wait for the mycelium to grow.

5. Mushroom fruiting management

Fruiting management is the most critical step in mushroom cultivation, as it affects the fruiting of the mushrooms, that is, the yield and quality of the mushrooms. The most important parts are water management and temperature management. We need to maintain the moisture of the nutrient material; in the early fruiting stage the humidity is generally around 70 percent, and later it can gradually return to around 80 to 90 percent. When watering, we should follow the principle of small amounts and frequent watering. The temperature of the fruiting house during the mycelial growth period is best kept at around 10 to 18 degrees, and during the fruiting period the temperature should be raised to around 20 to 28 degrees, which can speed up fruiting. When the mushrooms have grown to a certain size, they can be harvested.

Mushroom cultivation techniques are becoming more and more refined now, and many rare mushrooms on the market are gradually able to meet the needs of more people, which in fact would not be possible without the efforts of growers. That is all the content the editor wants to share with you today. If you still have other questions, remember to leave the editor a message.