Mushroom Spawn Bag 1.7kg – White Enoki (Flammulina velutipes) – made to order

Description

🍜 White Enoki Mushroom Spawn Guide (Flammulina velutipes)

Ready to step up your mushroom growing game? The White Enoki (also known as Enokitake or Velvet Shank) is a famous, highly prized culinary mushroom used extensively in Asian soups, hot pots, and stir-fries. Known for its mild, sweet flavor and signature crunchy texture, this amazing mushroom produces tight clusters of long, noodle-like white stems topped with tiny caps!

Please note: To get those famous, massive clusters, Enoki requires a rich diet and specific environmental controls (like cold temperatures and restricted fresh air). They are best grown on sterilized or super-pasteurized supplemented sawdust blocks only!

🌾 Recommended Substrates

To get those famous, abundant clusters, this 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 White Enoki thrives on highly nutritious supplemented substrates, standard hot-water pasteurization is not enough to keep competing green molds away. 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.

• The Goal: Leave the bags to incubate until the substrate is fully colonized with dense white mycelium.

🌤️ Best Fruiting Environment

Enoki are strictly top-fruiters! You will need to open the top of the bag to allow them to grow straight up.

• Temperature: Enoki is a true winter mushroom! Once fully colonized, they need a drastic cold shock to trigger pinning. They fruit best in very cold temperatures ranging from 4-15°C.

• Light: Keep them in very low light or complete darkness! Exposure to bright light will cause the caps to turn brown and expand. Darkness is the secret to keeping them beautifully white.

• Humidity: Keep it incredibly high (80-90%+). Because they fruit from the exposed top of the block, they need consistent environmental moisture to form healthy pinsets.

• Fresh Air (High CO2): This is the secret to Enoki! Unlike Oysters that need massive fresh air, Enoki stems stretch and grow long because they are looking for oxygen. Restrict the fresh air by leaving a tall “collar” of plastic around the top of the fruiting block. The mushrooms will grow long and noodle-like as they climb up the plastic tube!

🍄 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 bunch at once! The best time to pick is when the stems are long, crisp, and beautifully stretched, and the tiny caps are still convex (dome-shaped). Gently twist and pull the entire cluster away from the block, then trim the base before cooking.

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