Growing shiitake on tree trunks

Growing shiitake on tree trunks is particularly productive; A tree trunk can deliver mushrooms for a few years. Follow the six steps below for inoculating and cultivating with your Shiitake tribes. Have you purchased ready-made Shiitake Storsmen from us? Then start with step 5.

1. Saw oak stems at a length of up to 100 centimeters. Healthy, living trees must be cut down during the rest period and rest at least 2 weeks before inoculating.
2. Drill approximately 50 holes spread over the trunk with a depth of 2.5 centimeters. If you grow with ready-made plugs, use a drill of 8.5 mm. Grow withbrood for shiitake, use of a drill of 12.5 mm.
3. Inoculate the trunks with the brood:
1. Plug-spawn: use a hammer and carefully tap a plug into each hole, so that it is equal to the surface of the trunk. Seal every plug with melted wax or plug-wax.
2. Brood: break the brood and put it in each of the holes, so that it is equal to the surface of the trunk. Seal every plug with melted wax or plug-wax. You often put the breeding in the trunk with a vaccination tool.
3. Film brood: push a thimble into each of the holes.
4. Label the tribes. State on the label when you have inoculated the trunk.
5. Place the trunks in a shady spot close to the ground. They are perfect on a pallet or on with one side on another trunk.
   
   
   This way they get moist due to natural rainfall. Making moisture during this phase is the most crucial step for the success of Shiitake production. If the weather does not cooperate, you must sprinkle the trunks with a garden hose or watering can. The tribes will produce Shiitake when the so -called Spawnrun is almost complete and the fruiting conditions are ideal. This timing varies. As soon as the fruiting starts, the trunks can be stacked again to make harvesting easier.
6. If you don't want to wait for the natural way, you can force the process. Forcing fruit formation or "schocken" from Shiitake tribes is a method to reach the production point. We recommend waiting to forcing until the early summer after the tribes have naturally worn fruit and the weather is constantly warm. Shock Shiitake tribes by immersing them in cold water for 24 hours (at least 6 ° C colder than the air temperature) to prepare them for fruiting. Shiitake fungi develop on average within 5-14 days after shocking, depending on the temperature. This process can be repeated during the growing season in a rotation schedule of 8-10 weeks.