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- Can you even grow porcini mushrooms?
- Porcini need certain living conditions
- Where to find porcini mushrooms in the forest
- Which edible mushrooms you can breed yourself in a breeding box
- Tips
Porcini mushrooms can not be reared in the breeding box at home
Can you even grow porcini mushrooms?
Finding mushrooms in the forest is great fun, but it is also tedious and not always successful. No wonder that there were always attempts to breed the popular porcini mushroom for local cultivation. However, since this requires certain living conditions for its prosperity, which can not easily be recreated in the home garden, no one has yet succeeded in such an attempt. For this reason, you can use many noble mushrooms in a breeding box, but not the cep.
Porcini need certain living conditions
The reason is quite simple: The mushroom is a so-called mycorrhizal mushroom, which is in close symbiosis with certain types of forest trees. You will find it mainly under spruces, but also with oaks, beeches and - more rarely - pines are known associations. It is not enough simply to inoculate a beech trunk with porcini mushroom spores - as it happens, for example, the oyster mushroom - because the mushroom thrives only in the root system of living trees: both species are dependent on each other for mutual prosperity.
Where to find porcini mushrooms in the forest
Even a single living tree - such as an extra-planted beech or spruce in the front yard - is not sufficient for own cep breeding. Instead, depending on the subspecies, the fungus prefers to settle in older deciduous or mixed forests with a thick layer of moss and a loose canopy. Primarily, porcini mushrooms can be found on sunny glades and on acidic to neutral soils. You should have good success in the search if you sift the poisonous fly agaric - since the mushroom near it is frequently encountered, you only need to look more closely.
Which edible mushrooms you can breed yourself in a breeding box
In contrast to porcini mushrooms, however, there is a whole series of very tasty edible mushrooms, which are not mycorrhizal mushrooms and can therefore be used in a breeding box rather easily. So be
and some other species have been cultivated successfully for centuries. Commercially available ready-to-use culture kits allow for easy cultivation and fast harvesting.
Tips
There are some mushroom species, which look quite similar to the coveted porcini mushroom. However, the edible chestnut tube also turns blue, while the inedible bile-earling tastes extremely bitter and can cause gastrointestinal discomfort.