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- Grow tasty edible mushrooms yourself
- Even the ancient Romans bred mushrooms
- Which mushrooms can be bred today?
- Create mushroom cultures yourself
- Tips
Oyster mushrooms are suitable for mushroom cultivation at home
Grow tasty edible mushrooms yourself
In addition to the mushrooms collected in nature, cultivated mushrooms are becoming increasingly popular. Probably the best known is the cultivated mushroom, which was first mentioned in 1650 in France and is now grown worldwide in some large crops. The range of cultivated mushrooms has been drastically expanded in recent years, so that now about 20 different species can be grown.
Even the ancient Romans bred mushrooms
Even the ancient Romans and Greeks tried mushroom cultivation. A simple method often led to the goal: Ripe mushroom fruit bodies were placed for absporung on clean cut surfaces of a suitable wood species and then left to themselves. The first commercial mushroom crops originated in France at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, this mushroom is hardly to imagine the menu. Even Stockschwämmchen and oyster-seitlinge can be bred specifically for about 100 years. Today, garden centers and seed shops offer various types of mushrooms in ready-to-eat or mushroom spawns.
Which mushrooms can be bred today?
However, only so-called saprobionte mushroom species can be grown. These are species that feed on rotting substances, such as decaying wood. The cultivation of particularly popular edible mushrooms such as the mushroom, chanterelles and morels has been tried in vain, however. These species can only live in close coexistence with certain plants (mycorrhiza) and produce fruiting bodies. Mainly the following mushrooms can be bred today:
Create mushroom cultures yourself
Mushroom broods are about one liter in circumference, about 500 grams comprise units of sterile nutrient medium (usually straw), which are completely mixed with the white mushroom mycelium. Furthermore, wooden inoculation anchors, which are also intergrown by the particular mycelium, are offered. As these fungal hybrids are rapidly attacked by mold when exposed to heat, they should be applied as quickly as possible and should not be stored.
Tips
A particularly quick harvest is possible with ready-to-use culture sets, in which the substrate is supplied immediately.