How to grow a porcini mushroom at home at home?

White mushroom is deservedly and rightfully considered the standard for other mushrooms. He also looks attractive - with a fleshy brown hat on a white pot-bellied leg, and his taste is excellent. When fried, porcini mushrooms emit a special, nutty aroma. The mushroom got its name - white - because its incision does not darken during drying and cooking, while maintaining a juicy, appetizing structure. And today we will consider the cultivation of porcini mushrooms at home and not only.

White mushroom: description

Almost everywhere white mushroom is also called boletus. And also he is called a bear, a white grouse, a wood grouse. No matter how else this forest handsome man is called in numerous corners of Russia, he always looks distinctive:

1. The boletus cap is brown. It changes its bulge with the age of the fungus. From a semi-cylindrical shape in a small mushroom, it gradually makes a transition to an almost flat, about 20 cm in diameter, hat of an adult mushroom.
2. The stem is always whitish, with characteristic brownish vertical veins. Initially, it has the shape of a barrel, and as it grows, it stretches into a dense, powerful cylinder.

Now you can visually distinguish the porcini mushroom (you received the description) from other forest mushrooms.

Varieties of porcini mushrooms

The porcini mushroom has many forms, and their varieties depend on the trees under which the mushroom grows and in symbiosis with which it enters:

1. The pine shape is perhaps the most colorful of the porcini mushrooms. It has a beautiful brown hat and a slightly purple-tinged leg, slightly thickened at the bottom.
2. The spruce form is the most common in central Russia. The hat has a brownish-reddish color, with spots and a rim along the edge. The leg is barrel-shaped, covered to the middle with a fine mesh.
3. Oak form - strong porcini mushrooms with elastic brown caps with a grayish tint.
4. Dark bronze shape - the name speaks for itself. Hats are dark, wrinkled; legs are brownish.

The boletus growing in shaded areas has a lighter color of the cap. And their fellows, who grew up in the sun, have a rich brown top. The mushroom absolutely does not tolerate heavily shaded and mossy places. For example, it will not grow in a dense forest. And he will choose comfortable, slightly shaded or sunny places.

We grow mushrooms in the country

If a mushroom picker returns from the forest with a basket full of boletus mushrooms, it means that he did not go mushrooming in vain. Many people wonder if it is possible to grow mushrooms in the country in order to admire the beautiful landscape, and, of course, it is guaranteed to have a rare product on the table. Yes, growing a king of mushrooms in a garden is quite possible, although not an easy task.It is necessary to know the intricacies and peculiarities of breeding this fastidious forest sturdy fellow, but as a result of hard work, the first white mushrooms will grow near your country house.

So, growing mushrooms in the country. It will not be easy to achieve results because the porcini mushroom belongs to the mycorrhizal group, which indicates their duty and very difficult intergrowth and interlacing with the roots of the trees under which they live. This is a very complex and vital symbiosis for fungi. Without a tree, or rather its roots, the so-called fungus root cannot form and the fruit growing on the surface cannot develop. Therefore, alas, it will not work to grow porcini mushrooms in a bare area.

A long-standing and well-proven method of cultivation is in an area where trees between ten and thirty years old grow. White mushroom settles under pine, spruce, oak, birch, beech. Matching tree species when replanting mycelium is necessary. The more similar the conditions of a summer cottage plantation of boletus to their forest location, the more chances that they will successfully take root.

White mushrooms at home

If you wish, you can master the cultivation of mushrooms at home, having studied the accumulated experience of scientists from Holland. With the help of the technologies they recommend, you can start growing the product in greenhouses and dug cellars.

Breeding a plantation with an intensive method, namely, it is taken into service at home, has its own difficulties. One of them is a considerable investment, the purchase of equipment to ensure the required temperature and humidity in the room. But the advantages of this growing method are considerable - fertility throughout the season and a good ripening rate. For effective indoor breeding, it is recommended to use mycelium cultivation.

Requirements for planting material

It is advisable to purchase planting material from suppliers with recommendations, carefully study all the initial data of the mycelium indicated on the label. It is very important to pay attention to the smell and color of the mycelium. If there is a weak ammonia smell, immediately reject the batch of planting material - it was overheated and is now unviable. The color of a healthy exudate is orange with a slight yellowness.

Having brought home the packages with the purchased mycelium, you need to cool them, ventilate them and only then start preparing before laying. The contents of the bags are crushed without tearing the packaging. Thus, they maintain a gentle and adaptive temperature regime for the future mycelium. When laying, sterility is very important:

• it is necessary to work with gloves;
• premises for growing porcini mushrooms and laying mycelium should be separate;
• opening the package, it is necessary to process it with a disinfectant solution.

Mushroom growing technology

To complete the topic of the previous paragraph, let's start with the method of germinating a crop at home. So, growing mushrooms at home. Here are the main stages of indoor work:

1. Boiling in bags for 1-1.5 hours and subsequent cooling of the substrate. (Hole water drainage bags).
2. Mixing mycelium and substrate on disinfected tables. The availability of domestic material should be at the level of 5%, and imported - 2.5%.
3. Putting the mixture into bags. Tamp the grafted substrate tightly into bags, flatten one side and make several cuts for the mushrooms to germinate.
4. Place the bags vertically on the shelves. Watering is normal, without severe waterlogging. Ventilation of the room is required.
5. If the care was correct, the crop of mushrooms can be harvested for at least six months.

This is how porcini mushrooms are grown at home. Yes, quite difficult, but worth it.

Growing methods in the garden

Growing porcini mushrooms at home is strikingly different from growing in a personal plot. But first things first.

For cultivation of porcini mushrooms on the site, first prepare the place for laying the mycelium. On the top layer of soil previously removed with a shovel, compost or soil with peat is laid. Lay the planting material, cover it with a layer of turf removed earlier.

The most effective options for harvesting seed is to bring several pieces of mycelium the size of a chicken egg from the forest. Such blanks are planted in the soil without processing, it is only important to observe at least two conditions:

1. The trees under which the boletus grew in nature should be of the same species with the plants at the new planting site.
2. It is necessary to dig out the material very carefully - porcini mushrooms are hard to grow together with the roots and restore communication with the satellite tree.

Sowing forest mycelium

How to grow porcini mushrooms if there is no way to purchase high-quality planting material?

A very good effect is given by the method of sowing mycelium using the cap and the tubular part of the porcini mushroom. 5-6 mature caps are taken, it is possible even with wormholes, and soaked for a day in a bucket of water. Then the contents are kneaded with your hands. The thick is separated into another container. The thick mass is the body of the mushroom, and it comes in handy too. The bare roots of the tree are spilled with the remaining liquid with a large number of spores, then everything is covered with a layer of thick mushroom substance and sprinkled on top with the soil removed earlier. It is necessary to carefully water the planted mycelium and carry out subsequent watering once a week in the absence of rain.

Now you are familiar with the cultivation of porcini mushrooms at home, and in the garden, where, with proper observance of all technologies, you can get a harvest of boletus the first time in a year or two. Good luck!

White mushroom or boletus is rightfully considered the king of mushrooms. Those who like to feast on the juicy pulp of this forest dweller sometimes travel long distances to collect full baskets of boletus and then prepare delicious and aromatic dishes and preparations from them. But some gardeners prefer to grow this delicacy on their backyards. It's a troublesome business, but will this stop real experimenters and lovers of porcini mushrooms?

Growing porcini mushrooms at home

Description of porcini mushroom

The porcini mushroom belongs to the Boletaceae family and is a tubular mushroom. It is quite large in size: its thickened at the base, a dense leg, resembling a barrel, can stretch up to 25 cm in height and 10 cm thick, while its average size is up to 12 cm.Its color ranges from white to red-brown with white streaked.

1. The diameter of the convex cap is also amazing, sometimes reaching 50 cm (the average size is from 7 to 30 cm). The skin is smooth, less often wrinkled, during rains - smooth and slimy, during drought - matte. The color of the cap ranges from creamy white to brown, and the older the mushroom, the darker the shade of the cap.

   White mushroom with a brown cap

2. Juicy and fleshy pulp after cutting does not change color, remaining white-yellow. Although sometimes there are individuals in which the color of the pulp can change to a pink-blue hue.
3. The white mushroom is superior in taste to other mushrooms and is rightfully considered one of the best. The pulp contains a huge amount of nutrients and beneficial trace elements.
4. The porcini mushroom is used for cooking fresh, pickled or dried dishes. At the same time, during cooking or drying, the pulp of the mushroom emits a pleasant mushroom aroma. In some countries, boletus is eaten without heat treatment, and sauces are also prepared from it.

Description of porcini mushroom

Unfortunately, these mushrooms are practically not grown on an industrial scale due to their unprofitability. Boletus lovers have to either travel through the forests or grow this delicacy on their own.

The habitat of porcini mushrooms is a coniferous and deciduous forest.

Conditions and place for growing

To grow boletus mushrooms on your own personal plot, you will have to work hard and create conditions close to natural nature.

Symbiosis	In the forest, the porcini mushroom is in close symbiosis with the trees that surround it. Most often it is spruce, oak, pine, birch
Age of trees	Most often, porcini mushrooms grow in the forest where the trees are more than 50 years old, although they can also be found in pine forests of 20-25 years old.
Neighborhood with other mushrooms	Scientists have found that the porcini mushroom most often appears in the vicinity of other representatives of this kingdom: green tea, chanterelle, green russula
Soil cover	Boletus respects the forest in which the soil cover is represented by mosses and lichens
Air temperature	The most comfortable air temperature for porcini mushrooms ranges from 15-18 degrees in August and 8-10 in September. Sudden temperature fluctuations are undesirable
Humidity	The largest boletus harvests are observed after short thunderstorms or foggy nights.
The soil	Ideal soil for porcini mushrooms - loam, sandy loam or sand with good drainage
Light	Boletus loves light, but sometimes (depending on other conditions) it can abundantly spread in shaded forest thickets.

Based on all this, those areas where there are adult coniferous or deciduous trees are best suited for growing porcini mushrooms. Oak, birch, pine groves are suitable for organizing plantations. The place should be well lit, sufficiently humid, but not waterlogged. Before planting mushrooms, it is worth removing nearby herbs such as ferns and hoofs.

Best suited for growing porcini mushrooms are those areas where there are adult coniferous or deciduous trees.

If the planting material was made by the gardener on his own, then it is important to choose the soil for planting the mushrooms near the tree from which the adult boletus parent was taken.

Sowing mushrooms should be at the end of the summer season or early autumn to mid-September.

Seed preparation

If you decide to grow porcini mushrooms from material collected in forests, that is, from porcini mushrooms that grow in their natural environment, then it is important to choose mature mature mushrooms for the preparation of planting material.

1. Collect mother mushrooms that grow under the same trees as in your area.
2. Choose those mushrooms where the spores in the caps are already ripe (about 10 caps measuring 10-20 cm). You can take wormy or dried hats.

   Found a wormy porcini mushroom? Do not rush to throw it away, it is better to make a suspension for planting out of it.

3. Prepare a weak solution of potassium permanganate at the rate of 1 g per bucket of rainwater.
4. Add 15 sugar lumps to it for a nutrient solution.
5. Mash the selected mushroom caps thoroughly until a smooth porridge.
6. Place the resulting material in the solution and leave for several hours.
7. Strain the resulting mixture - this way we get a suspension that contains the spores of the porcini mushroom.

Preparation of planting material

We will tell you about the methods of planting with the help of a suspension just below.

In the case of using such seed, you will be able to harvest the next crop no earlier than in a year, or even later.

Natural planting material can be made in another way. To do this, you should find an adult porcini mushroom in the forest and carefully cut off the soil with a layer of about 15 * 25 cm around it. The layer is divided into 8-20 small fragments and is laid in the soil in the garden bed.

Carefully cut off a layer of soil about 15 * 25 cm in size near the mushroom and get planting material

You can also grow porcini mushrooms at home from powdered mycelium, which is sold in stores.

Dry mycelium of porcini mushroom

Porcini mycelium

1. Choose a slightly shaded area under the trees and remove the top of the soil (30 cm) on an area of ​​about 3 square meters.
2. At the bottom of the pit, tree bark and fallen leaves are lined with a layer of about 10 cm.
3. It is also necessary to add humus or soil from under the trees.
4. Take powdered mycelium (20 g) and mix it with sand (1 L).
5. Sprinkle the mixture on the garden bed and cover with compost (layer about 3 cm).
6. The final stage is to cover it all with ordinary earth (a layer of about 4 cm).
7. Immediately after sowing, the bed is carefully watered, best of all with a drip method.

Such a bed will yield faster harvest and will delight you with porcini mushrooms for up to 5 years.

Sowing methods of mushrooms

Powdered mycelium purchased in a store is rarely used by mushroom growers as a planting material. Most often, they still prepare natural planting material, which they use in several ways.

Growing porcini mushrooms under birches

Method number 1. At a distance of about a meter from the selected tree on the site, carefully so as not to damage the root system of the plant, remove 15 cm of the top layer of soil. It is good if it turns out that the roots are slightly exposed. At the rate of 350 gr per ¼ sq.m. the roots are watered with the prepared suspension and then sprinkled on top with the previously removed soil. Now you need to moisten the garden bed - under each tree, carefully, so as not to wash off the future mycelium, pour up to 5 buckets of water.

For good mushroom growth, the soil must be moistened as it dries.

Please note: if the soil in the place chosen for planting is almost always wet by itself, then watering is carried out only during sowing. Additionally, the plantation is moistened only in case of severe drought.

Method number 2. To implement this method, a month before planting the mushrooms, it is necessary to prepare a special nutrient mixture. These are fallen oak leaves collected after winter, rotted oak wood (5%) and horse manure (5%). The components are laid out in layers (foliage alternates with manure and wood) and on top of the resulting heap is watered with ammonium nitrate (1%). After 7-10 days, this mass must be dug up to get a homogeneous substrate.

Ammonium nitrate for soil preparation for growing porcini mushrooms

Then we begin to prepare directly the ridge itself. A hole up to 30 cm deep and about 2 m wide is dug under the trees, where the resulting nutrient mixture is laid out in layers up to 12 cm. Each layer must be covered with a 10 cm layer of soil. In this case, the total height of the ridge will turn out to be about 50 cm. To avoid waterlogging, create a small elevation in the middle of the plantation.

On the surface of the prepared substrate, shallow pits are made in a checkerboard pattern at a distance of no more than 30 cm from each other, into which fragments of soil from under the porcini mushroom are either laid, or watered with a suspension and ground with a layer of up to 7 cm.

After sowing, the ridge is moistened and covered with fallen foliage.

Method number 3. The garden bed is prepared in the same way as in method # 2. Small dried pieces of the tubular part of the mushroom are placed in the substrate, opening a few centimeters. After 3-4 days, they are taken out, and the soil is slightly moistened. In this case, the harvest will appear next year.

The harvest of porcini mushrooms

Growing in a greenhouse

Porcini mushrooms can be grown in a greenhouse in any of the ways. To make the boletus feel comfortable in it, you should first prepare the room.

1. Use a material that does not allow light to shade a small area of ​​the greenhouse and place several containers of water there to create the necessary level of humidity.
2. Barrels can also be replaced with sawdust, which is periodically sprayed with water. This material retains moisture very well.
3. Do not forget about ventilation: the greenhouse is either ventilated or provided with a fresh air supply system.

Tips for growing mushrooms in a greenhouse

The mushroom beds in the greenhouse are prepared in the same way as in other methods. It is best to add a little forest soil to the garden soil.

Fertilizers and care

The porcini mushroom is a capricious comrade.Fruiting does not begin immediately, but, at best, after a year and requires special attention. You should not give up, even if all the waiting times have already passed: continue to maintain the necessary conditions in the beds - it is quite possible that the mushrooms will begin to bear fruit 2-3 years after planting.

Watering the garden is best done with a sprayer. Pay special attention to this procedure during a drought or trying to grow boletus in arid regions. On average, the frequency of watering is once every 7 days with 5-6 buckets of water.

On average, the frequency of watering porcini mushrooms is once every 7 days with 5-6 buckets of water

If the bed is located under a tree, then water is poured onto the trunk of the plant.

Fertilizing a porcini mushroom plantation is very good with coffee grounds. It accelerates their growth and protects them from midges, mold and diseases. To prepare top dressing, the grounds are mixed with natural ground coffee and a mineral complex is added. Fertilizer is applied at the rate of 1 tbsp. l. per square meter of the ridge.

Fertilize porcini mushroom plantation very well with coffee grounds

If the soil on the site dries out very quickly, then a little hydrogel is added to the soil in the garden bed with mushrooms.

Video - Growing porcini mushrooms

The beginning of the mushroom season is associated in our imagination with the forest, the smell of foliage and lost mushroom pickers. Today, mushrooms are grown on an industrial scale. This occupation brings a lot of income to a person. Even the cultivation of porcini mushrooms at home does not surprise anyone. If you do such a thing to provide for your family, there will be no special problems. The main thing is to follow certain rules so that an occupation from a hobby turns into a family business and brings additional income.

What you need to know about mushrooms

Mushrooms are special living organisms on the planet. In the vast kingdom of nature, a separate niche was found for them. They belong to a special group and grow out of spores. We are especially interested in porcini mushrooms, which have a rather large fruiting body, growing in a certain soil. All the necessary substances and water are absorbed through the mycelium. They grow under favorable conditions (humidity, temperature, soil), are very tasty, and have a high gastronomic value. In vegetarian dishes, meat ingredients are completely replaced.

There are many edible varieties that do not require much attention to grow mushrooms at home. But favorable conditions must be created for porcini mushrooms.

Why is it profitable to grow porcini mushrooms at home

Growing mushrooms only for the needs of the family is impractical. It is quite possible to buy 1 - 2 kg on the market. Therefore, everyone who undertakes such a "mushroom" business is determined to put their business idea into practice. This approach has the right to life, because:

• Mushrooms do not need constant attention and care for their growth.
• Most often, in order to start a mushroom household, special training and special skills are not needed.
• The costs are minimal, since improvised materials are suitable for organizing home production, you will only have to buy some devices and the mycelium of the mushroom.
• There is also always a suitable place in the private sector.

Mushrooms are unlikely to become the main business, since there is a problem of selling them, but for additional income to the family budget, this activity is quite suitable.

Where is it better to grow a porcini mushroom

For such an elite type of mushroom, you need to find a suitable place. You can lay a mushroom bed in two ways:

1. In natural conditions, when there are deciduous trees on the site or a forest with growing oaks, aspens, maples and birches is located nearby. The mycelium of the porcini fungus enters into close symbiosis with the roots of these trees. If you clear the area under the tree to the roots, cover it with white mushroom spores, cover it with a layer of rotted leaves and pieces of bark on top, you will soon have a result. The main thing is not to forget to immediately water the area abundantly, and then make sure that the substrate does not dry out.
2. Indoors (greenhouse, basement, shed), you can also breed myceliums of porcini mushrooms, but you will have to work on creating conditions similar to natural ones.

Mycelium preparation

Experts always recommend choosing from all types of edible mushrooms only those that grow actively and do not require large investments. The main thing is to buy quality spores in grain or liquid form.

Knowledgeable mushroom pickers prepare the spores themselves. How to do it? Just take the caps of adult porcini mushrooms, break them into pieces and soak in water for a day. Such a mixture will become a preparation for sowing mushrooms on prepared soil.

How to grow porcini mushrooms indoors

Preparing the room

Preparing a clean and dry area (barn, greenhouse, basement, etc.). All walls and ceilings must be whitewashed with lime and then ventilated and dried. There are two such premises: in one, myceliums will sprout, the incubation period of the mycelium will occur, and in the other, the mushrooms themselves will grow. A ventilation system is installed in the room, the possibility of irrigation to maintain the humidity level, sources of heating the room in winter and fluorescent lamps are being considered. Such devices will be needed at different stages of mushroom growth.

Soil preparation

In order to choose the right composition of the soil, you need to know that the porcini mushroom takes root on the wood of a certain type of tree. Therefore, the bark and pieces of wood (preferably oak, birch, pine) are crushed and steamed in boiling water. Sunflower husks, straw residues, sawdust can enter the substrate mixture. This selection of ingredients is important for the mycelium of the fungus to take root and grow.

Technological methods of growing porcini mushrooms

1. The prepared substrate is sprinkled with spores of mushrooms in special boxes and installed on stationary racks.
2. The seeded spores of the fungus "rest" in a dark place, where the humidity is maintained at least 95% and the temperature regime is 23-250 C.
3. A month passes, and the mushrooms are transferred to the next room or a designated area for the germination of mushroom bodies. Here you need a temperature of 12 - 180 C, ventilation so that carbon dioxide does not collect, maintaining the humidity level and lighting for 3 - 4 hours during the day. For permissible humidity, it is enough to install a container with water. And ventilation will replace the fan.

Harvesting the harvest

The correct organization of the mushroom economy at home allows you to get several harvests per year. What to do with mushrooms that don't stop growing? Of course, they can be salted, pickled, distributed to relatives and neighbors. But this approach will not even cover energy costs and the purchase of mycelium. Therefore, the hobby is slowly moving on to the next stage - the sale of surpluses. Of course, you don't have to compete with large-scale mushroom production, but you can always reach your client. After all, a small household mushroom farm has its advantages:

• Porcini mushrooms are practically not grown on an industrial scale;
• The mushrooms are always fresh;
• Neatly assembled one by one and laid in boxes in an even layer.

You can find sales of an ever-growing product in cafes or restaurants, small vegetable shops, or sell mushrooms on the market yourself. In any case, the family budget will be replenished with additional funds to improve and expand the mushroom business.

It is not necessary to go to the forest for whites, they can be grown on your site. Consider two methods of reproduction: from caps and mycelium. Details on how to independently obtain planting material, planting, care and advice for beginners.

Growing from mycelium

This method is used in the absence of natural mushrooms. Having the Internet, finding mycelium is not difficult. You will also need compost and growing 8-10 year old trees. Planting events are best planned between May and September.

Near the selected tree (coniferous or deciduous), remove the top layer in a circle (10-20 cm). The diameter of the bare area should be 1-1.5 meters, the tree is in the middle.Put compost (1-2 cm) into the formed circle and put mycelium on it. It is advisable to observe the "checkerboard pattern" with an interval of 25-30 cm. Now we cover the planting with a layer of soil, which we dug up and watered abundantly. Use a watering can so as not to wash out the soil. For one tree, 3-4 buckets of water will be enough.

The next step is a shelter that will keep moisture in the ground. You can use straw, old fallen leaves, or grass cuttings. The layer is made thick enough (20-30 cm). Care consists of regular watering and maintaining moisture, at the level of the planted mycelium, not lower than 50%. To improve germination, it is recommended to periodically use Baikal EM-1 for irrigation or any microbiological additives to improve fertility.

At the end of autumn, insulation will be required. The area with mycelium is covered with moss, straw, spruce branches. The radius should be larger than the landing area (2 m). In the spring, the "veil" is removed. The first mushrooms appear a year after the mycelium has been planted. In one place, fruiting lasts 3-4 years. This period can be extended to 7 years if you occasionally water the ground with a solution of mycelium. How to get it, read on.

Growing from fresh hats

A good seed will come from mature mushrooms. Therefore, go to the forest and look for white hats with large and open hats in diameter (10-20 cm). At the break, the tubular flesh should have a slightly greenish tint. In your case, insect larvae and wormy mushrooms are also suitable. On the site, as in the first method, you will plant near a deciduous or coniferous tree.

Seed preparation

Take 5-10 mushrooms intended for sowing, place in a bucket and cover with water. After a day they will become soaked, and you will just need to knead the mushrooms with your hands in the same bucket with your hands until smooth. After filtering through a sieve, you will get a solution with spores and separated mushroom tissue.

Sowing

A place near the selected tree is prepared in the same way as in the previous case. Planting will be carried out by watering. Only not over the entire prepared area, but directly on the open roots of the tree. The solution with spores should be enough for 1 sq. meter turned out to be 2 liters.

After such a "sowing", spread the mushroom tissue, which remained after straining, on the roots and adjacent ground. Now it remains to cover the planting with soil, which was removed, and water. The earth needs to be well saturated with moisture, so at least 5 buckets of water will go to one tree. When watering, do not wash out the top layer, so use a watering can with a fine spray. Now cover with plant material to retain moisture. Care is the same as when planting mycelium with regular watering. For the winter, a shelter is created only in the first year after planting.

In a year, if the mycelium is born, you will harvest the first crop. The area of ​​one tree will give up to 5 kg of white ones. The interval from planting to harvest is exactly one year, so keep in mind that if the caps are planted in the fall, then the harvest must be expected only in the fall of next year. One mycelium will bear fruit for 3-4 years. To prolong growth, it will be necessary to plant in 2-3 years.

Tips for beginner mushroom growers

Planting activities in the southern regions are best carried out in May-early June, in the middle zone of the temperate climate, in August-early September. When collecting "planting" mushrooms, try to find them under the same trees near which you plan to plant. If you have a spruce or birch on your site, then you are looking in the forest under such species.

Soaking the caps should occur no later than 10 hours after cutting the mushroom. You can add a little alcohol (10 l - 3 tbsp / l) or granulated sugar (10 l: 50 g) to the water with caps. The mycelium takes root better if the soil is spilled with a tanning solution before planting: brew 80-100 g of black tea in a liter of boiling water. You can prepare a decoction of oak bark: for 3 liters - 100 g. 2-3 liters of tanning water are consumed per tree.

It is not recommended to bookmark mycelium at the end of September, because.the probability of mycelium survival is too low. Depending on your region, you need to calculate the interval from sowing to frost of 1.5 months. In hot weather, watering is required weekly, 3-4 buckets per area with mushrooms.