What are the advantages of cultivating Gastrodia elata in wide-mouth bottles?
Comrade Wang Lianchi of the Xishan Mushroom Spawn Factory in Chuxiong County, Yunnan Province, after many years of trials, concluded that using wide-mouth bottles to cultivate Gastrodia elata indoors on bed racks has the advantages of high yield, labor savings, and wood savings.
In bottle cultivation of Gastrodia elata, the bottles are placed on bed racks and require no special management, no watering, and only a certain indoor temperature to be maintained. This not only effectively utilizes the space area but is also easy to operate.
According to trials, when 2 to 3 small Gastrodia tubers are planted per bottle, an average of 38.6 Gastrodia tubers of various sizes grow, with a fresh tuber weight of 97.9 grams, and the largest single tuber reaching 46 grams. If 100 bottles are placed per square meter, and 500 bottles are placed on 5 tiers of racks, calculating at a minimum yield of 60 grams per bottle, then 30 kg of fresh Gastrodia can be produced per square meter per year, which is a very high yield.