Mushroom Spawn Bag 1.7kg – Yellow Oyster (Pleurotus citrinopileatus)

Description

🍋 Yellow Oyster Mushroom Spawn Guide (Pleurotus citrinopileatus)

Ready to build your own mushroom blocks from scratch? The Yellow Oyster (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) is an absolute showstopper! Famous for its stunning, vibrant lemon-yellow caps and a unique, mild citrus aroma and flavor, this choice edible is a massive favourite among home cultivators.

Because it fruits so easily on almost any cellulose-based material, it is an incredibly fun and rewarding variety to grow. Just keep in mind: while they are incredibly beautiful and delicious, the fruitbodies are quite fragile and delicate, which is why you rarely see them in commercial supermarkets!

🌾 Recommended Substrates Yellow Oysters are highly vigorous and will happily devour almost any cellulose-based material! 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. (Note: Like Pink Oysters, Yellow Oysters are a warmer-weather tropical strain, so keep your spawn and incubating blocks out of the fridge!)

• 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: Yellow Oysters love the heat! Once fully colonized and ready to fruit, they thrive in a high temperature range of 18-28°C.

• Light: Place your fully white block somewhere with enough natural, indirect light to read a book by. The light helps them develop that brilliant yellow color!

• 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 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. The more spawn you use, the faster it colonizes!

• Handle with Care: These mushrooms are famously fragile. When harvesting or moving them, be very gentle, as the caps and stems can break and snap much easier than a standard oyster mushroom.

• Citrus Notes: When cooking, notice the delightful, faint citrusy smell! They are fantastic pan-fried until slightly crispy to highlight their delicate flavor.

• 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, their color will begin to fade and they will drop heavy spores.

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