Mushroom Spawn Bag 1.7kg – Winter Chocolate (Pleurotus Ostreatus) – Made to order

Description

🍫 Winter Chocolate Oyster Mushroom Spawn Guide (Pleurotus ostreatus)

Ready to build your own mushroom blocks from scratch with our ready-to-use 1.7kg grain spawn bags? The Winter Chocolate Oyster is a spectacular, choice edible variety that thrives in the cooler months! This unique winter strain produces gorgeous fruitbodies that showcase a stunning light brown to slightly blue hue, especially when they are young pins.

If you are looking for a vigorous, reliable producer that yields beautiful, meaty clusters during the chilly season, this spawn is exactly what you need!

🌾 Recommended Substrates Like most Oysters, the Winter Chocolate strain is an aggressive grower and not a picky eater! You can successfully inoculate:

• Straw or Sugarcane Mulch

• Hardwood sawdust or wood pellets

• Paper pellets or cardboard

• Agricultural wastes (corn cobs, cotton wastes, coffee grounds, leaves, and sunflower husks/stalks)

🛠️ How to Prepare Your Substrate (Video Guides) To use this spawn, you will need to pasteurise your chosen substrate first to give the mushroom mycelium a head start over any competing molds. You can use any of these easy methods! Check out our step-by-step video tutorials for the best ways to prep your bulk substrate:

• 📄 Growing on Paper Pellets with Lime (Super Easy & Clean!): 👉 https://youtu.be/2NXHYkso7hA?si=JsQnqtvM5RdfgGXF

• 🔥 Heat Pasteurising Sugarcane Mulch or Straw: 👉 https://youtu.be/gY7DQLXNMXk?si=_wNwCQcARGzUQgTa

• 🧊 Cold Pasteurising Straw/Sugarcane using Hydrated Lime: 👉 https://youtu.be/iPVv0nkps2k?si=2KKGPrK1zKBSjbQd

🧫 Incubation (Colonizing Your Block) Once you have mixed your spawn into your prepared 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 turns completely white with mycelium. Once fully colonized, it is ready to fruit!

🌤️ Best Fruiting Environment

• Temperature: This is a winter strain! Once fully colonized and ready to fruit, it requires a low-to-medium temperature range of 10-20°C to trigger those beautiful flushes.

• Light: Place your fully white block somewhere with enough natural, indirect light to read a book by.

• Humidity: When you cut your fruiting holes, keep the humidity high (70-80%+) by misting the area around the cuts 1 to 3 times a day.

• Fresh Air: Mushrooms “exhale” CO2 as they grow! To ensure you get beautiful, large caps instead of long, stringy stems, you need excellent fresh air exchange. Aim for 6-8+ room air changes per hour in your fruiting space.

🍄 Tips & Harvesting

• Inoculation Rate: We generally recommend mixing your spawn into your prepared bulk substrate at a rate of 10% to 20% by weight. Your 1.7kg spawn bag goes a long way and can inoculate several large fruiting blocks!

• Colour Changes: Don’t be surprised if your young pins look quite dark brown or even slightly blue! This beautiful initial colour will naturally fade and stretch into a lighter grey/brown as the caps mature and expand.

• When to pick: Harvest the entire cluster at once when the edges of the largest caps are still slightly curled downwards. As soon as they start pointing up and flattening out completely, they are about to drop heavy spores!

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