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The winter mushroom was named after its fruiting bodies development at low temperatures. Fruiting bodies often freeze in winter and continue to grow when thawing.
As many other mushroom species the winter mushrooms are very popular food in Far East, especially in China where they cultivate them to get the fruiting bodies with long stems and small caps.
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Cultivation on wood
When cultivated outside mushrooms form in clusters. Wood can be inoculated with plug or grain spawn. For cultivation the appropriate types of wood are: beech, maple, poplar, willow and alder. Some strains can be also cultivated on conifers.
Mushrooms should be harvested before the caps fully expand and white spores are released.
Growth parameters for the winter mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) cultivation
| Substrate colonization | |
| temperature | 21 - 24 oC optimal, slower at lower temperatures |
| light | not needed |
| duration | 6 - 24 months on wood |
| Primordia formation | |
| temperature | 4 – 14 oC |
| relative humidity | 95 - 100 % |
| duration | 3 - 5 days |
| light | diffuse light necessary |
| Mushroom formation | |
| temperature | 10 – 20 oC, strain dependent |
| relative humidity | 90 - 95 % |
| duration | 5 - 8 days |
| light | necessary (no direct sunlight!) |
 Plug spawn for winter mushroom cultivation. |
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| Shitake substrate blocks |
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| Price: 12,50 € |
| Grain spawn for oyster mushroom cultivation |
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| Price: 14,00 € |
| Sterilized substrate for mushroom cultivation |
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| Price: 16,00 € |