Shiitake Mushroom Grain Spawn 1.5kg

Shiitake Spawn

Shiitake is one of the most rewarding mushrooms to grow and one of the best tasting. This shiitake mushroom grain spawn is 1.5kg of millet and milo grain fully colonised by a dependable Lentinula edodes strain, ready to spawn into hardwood substrate.

What Is Included

• 1 x 1.5kg shiitake grain spawn bag
• Access to our online growing guide

What to Grow It On

Shiitake needs hardwood. Sterilised oak or beech sawdust supplemented with wheat bran is the go to for indoor blocks. Grain spawn can also be used to inoculate freshly cut hardwood logs, though plug spawn is more common for that.

How to Use

1. Break up the spawn.
2. Mix into sterilised hardwood substrate in filter patch bags at 10 to 20 percent.
3. Incubate at 20 to 25°C. Shiitake blocks go through a browning stage where the outside turns brown and leathery. This can take 6 to 12 weeks and is essential.
4. Once browned, remove the bag, soak in cold water and fruit at 12 to 20°C in high humidity.

Our Experience

Shiitake taught us patience. Blocks that looked like nothing was happening for weeks went on to give some of our heaviest, best tasting harvests.

Storage

Fridge for up to two weeks.

Related

See the shiitake fruiting block, shiitake liquid culture and bulk shiitake spawn. All spawn in mushroom grain spawn.