Organic Eryngii Mushroom Grow Kit Fruiting Block
• Between 0.75 and 1 kg of fresh mushrooms over 2-3 harvests
• Download the bale instructions here
The variety
- Variety eryngii, aka the "panaut oyster mushroom", or the "king oyster"
- Culture ball ready to grow.
- Harvest: between 0.75 and 1 kg of fresh mushrooms over 2-3 harvests.
- Composition: sawdust, cereals, eryngii mycelium. Net weight of the bundle: +-5.4 kg. Dimensions: 25*20*20 cm (L*W*H)
A little more delicate to cultivate than gray oyster mushrooms, eryngiis have a very good shelf life thanks to their firm and dense flesh and their low water content. The foot is close to the texture of Bordeaux porcini mushrooms. Light almond flavor. They can be cooked as carpaccios.
Eryngiis prefer cool temperatures of 15 to 18°. They need constant high humidity at the beginning of fruiting, which gradually decreases until harvest.
Note: Harvest indications are estimates based on our production experience but are not a guarantee. The productivity of the blocks depends on the growing conditions and the experience of the producer.
(*) Our bales are certified organic “BE-BIO-01” by Certisys (Belgium).
Use
Store the balls in the fridge before using them (max 2 weeks).
There are two modes of fruiting:
- Open the top of the bag, leaving 15 to 20 cm of plastic above the substrate, and wait for the primordia ("buds" of mushrooms) to appear, then gradually lower the plastic to the level of the substrate.
- Make a cut in the side of the bale at the substrate level and expel the air from the bag through this opening. In the same way as oyster mushrooms, keep moist. This technique takes a little more time, and tends to produce a little less. But this encourages the development of the caps more than the stems, which results in mushrooms that are a little different in taste and texture.
Where to grow it?
Inside (kitchen, garage, cellar). Eryngiis need a little light to grow. Prefer indirect sunlight, avoid anything that risks drying out the bale: draft, radiator, sun. Eryngiis like humidity but do not like to be constantly soaked because they are more susceptible to diseases than oyster mushrooms for example.
How much harvest?
We generally make 2 harvests on this type of bale. The first harvest is the most abundant.
Tips:
To encourage the growth and productivity of a second harvest you can:
- Remoisten the bags by immersing them overnight in water before draining them and returning them to culture
- Do a thermal shock: you place the bundle in a cool place for one night or more (fridge or outside for example). This simulates the arrival of winter and therefore encourages the fungus to reproduce.
Conservation
The eryngiis keep for around 2 weeks in a paper bag in the fridge. For longer storage you can also freeze them or preserve them in jars.
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