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What issues should be noted when harvesting edible mushrooms

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1. Harvest at the right time. When edible mushrooms are 70-80% mature, they look beautiful and taste good. Take shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes) as an example: the sign of 70-80% maturity is that the partial veil has broken, the cap has not yet fully opened and still curls inward slightly, forming a "gong rim"; the gills have fully extended and turned from white to yellowish-brown or dark brown. This is the suitable harvest period for shiitake mushrooms. 2. Pay attention to picking technique. When picking edible mushrooms, all stemmed mushrooms, such as shiitake, straw mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and bamboo fungus (Phallus indusiatus), must be picked according to the principle of picking the large and leaving the small. When picking, pinch the base of the mushroom stem tightly with your thumb and index finger,

1. Harvest at the right time. When edible mushrooms are 70-80% mature, they look beautiful and taste good. Take shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes) as an example: the sign of 70-80% maturity is that the partial veil has broken, the cap has not yet fully opened and still curls inward slightly, forming a "gong rim"; the gills have fully extended and turned from white to yellowish-brown or dark brown. This is the suitable harvest period for shiitake mushrooms.

2. Pay attention to picking technique. When picking edible mushrooms, all stemmed mushrooms, such as shiitake, straw mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and bamboo fungus (Phallus indusiatus), must be picked according to the principle of picking the large and leaving the small. When picking, pinch the base of the mushroom stem tightly with your thumb and index finger, first rotate to the left, then gently pull upward. Be careful not to bruise the small mushroom buds. For gelatinous mushrooms such as silver ear fungus (Tremella fuciformis), wood ear fungus (Auricularia heimuer), and hairy wood ear fungus (Auricularia cornea), as well as clustered oyster mushrooms, Phoenix mushrooms (Pleurotus pulmonarius), and enoki mushrooms (Flammulina filiformis), cut the whole cluster off at the base with a sharp blade when picking, keeping the cluster shape intact.

3. Choose suitable weather. Picking on sunny days is good for processing. On cloudy and rainy days, the water content is high, making drying difficult and affecting quality. However, if the fruiting bodies are already mature, they should still be picked at the right time even on rainy days, and processed promptly after picking. For wood ear fungus, silver ear fungus, and the like, stop spraying water on rainy days, strengthen ventilation, and wait until the weather clears before picking.

4. Use suitable containers. Fresh mushrooms that have been picked should be placed in small woven baskets or small baskets, and handled gently to keep the fruiting bodies intact and prevent damage from squeezing each other. Do not use gunny sacks, wooden buckets, wooden boxes, and the like for holding them.

5. Stop watering and control humidity before picking. If water is sprayed before picking, the water content of the fruiting bodies will be too high, and during processing, dehydration and drying will cause the gills to turn black. Even for fresh sales, excessive moisture can cause mold and rot. Therefore, stop spraying water before picking so that the fruiting bodies maintain normal moisture.

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