Mushroom Spawn Bag 1.7kg – Australian Coral Tooth/Snowflake (Hericium Coralloides) – NO shipping to WA – made to order

Description

❄️ Australian Native Coral Tooth Mushroom Spawn Guide (Hericium coralloides)

Ready to step up your mushroom growing game? This is an incredibly special one! Our Australian Native Coral Tooth (Hericium coralloides) was cloned directly from a wild fruitbody we discovered on the Triplet Falls walking trail in the Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia in 2019. After almost 12 months of dedicated lab work to stabilize it, we are thrilled to finally offer this as a highly reliable fruiting strain!

Dubbed ‘Snowflake‘ by local commercial growers, this award-winning fungus is an absolutely delicious choice edible that is incredibly popular with top chefs. It produces stunning white to eggshell-coloured fruitbodies that look and feel remarkably similar to branching sea coral. Beyond its culinary prestige, it is also highly valued for medicinal usage, functional compounds, and research.

Please note: Like other advanced wood-loving species, Coral Tooth requires rich nutrients to build its intricate, branching structures. They are best grown on sterilized or super-pasteurized supplemented sawdust blocks only!

🌾 Recommended Substrates To get those famous, heavy clusters, this wood-loving strain requires a high-nutrient diet! We highly recommend:

• Master’s Mix (a 50/50 blend of hardwood sawdust and soy hull pellets)

• Hardwood sawdust heavily supplemented with nutrients (like oat bran, wheat bran, or soybean meal) at a rate of 10% to 30%.

🛠️ How to Prepare Your Substrate & Inoculate Because Coral Tooth thrives on highly nutritious supplemented substrates, standard hot-water pasteurization is not enough. You will need to treat this like an advanced grow!

• Hydration: Before processing, ensure your bulk substrate mixture is thoroughly wetted to a 60% moisture level.

• Sterilization is Key: Your supplemented substrate blocks should be fully sterilized in a pressure cooker at 15 PSI for 2.5 hours, or “super pasteurized” by steaming them at atmospheric pressure for 10 to 12 hours.

• Clean Inoculation: Because you are mixing your spawn into fully sterilized material, you must be extremely clean! Always inoculate your cooled blocks in front of a laminar flow hood or inside a Still Air Box (SAB) wiped down with 70% isopropyl alcohol.

🧫 Incubation (Colonizing Your Block) Once you have cleanly mixed your spawn into your prepared, sterile substrate and sealed your bags, it is time to let the mycelium take over!

• Temperature: Store your inoculated bags in a clean, dark space with stable temperatures between 16-20°C.

• Fresh Air: The growing mycelium needs to breathe! Ensure your incubation room has good ventilation, aiming for ideally one room air change per hour.

• What to look for: Hericium mycelium is famously thin, wispy, and delicate compared to aggressive oyster strains. It might not look thick and bright white, but as long as it has spread throughout the block, it is ready!

🌤️ Best Fruiting Environment Coral tooth can be side-fruited or top-fruited! We recommend cutting small slits or “X” shapes into the sides of the bag where you see dense mycelium forming.

• Temperature: Once fully consolidated, they require a cooler temperature drop to trigger pinning. Aim for a fruiting temperature range of 12-18°C.

• Light: Place your fully colonized block somewhere with enough natural, indirect light to read a book by. Good lighting helps trigger healthy pin development!

• Humidity: Keep it incredibly high (80-90%+). Those delicate, branching coral structures will dry out and turn yellow very quickly if the air is too dry. Mist the air around the cuts frequently.

• Fresh Air: To get beautifully proportioned, tight branches rather than loose, stringy growth, aim for high fresh air exchange (6-8+ room air changes per hour).

🍄 Tips & Harvesting

• Inoculation Rate: Because you are mixing your spawn into fully sterilized material in a highly clean environment, you only need an inoculation rate of 3% to 5% by weight. Your 1.7kg spawn bag will go a very long way!

• When to pick: Harvest the entire structure at once! The best time to pick is when the branches are fully formed, distinct, and brilliant white. If the tips start to take on a yellow or brownish tinge, it is slightly past its prime and should be harvested immediately. Gently cut the base of the “coral” off the block with a sharp knife.

Please note this culture is sold with our Mushroom Spawn and Cultures sale agreement. By purchasing you agree to this agreement