Mycelium on organic button mushroom grains

Button mushroom, agaricus bisporus

The button mushroom is the most consumed variety of mushrooms worldwide. Cousin of meadow agarics which are generally found in grazed meadows, button mushrooms are generally grown on a substrate based on pasteurized composted manure.

It is a mushroom: it grows on a horizontal substrate generally covered with a layer of casing which has the function of maintaining constant humidity and providing certain bacteria favorable to the fruiting of the mushrooms.

For more information on growing mushrooms on a small scale, we recommend the following reading:

Semi-professionally: Agrodoc 2: Small-scale mushroom cultivation (Agaric, Volvaire)

Please note that button mushrooms are not the easiest mushrooms to grow. Preparing compost requires a certain technique. If you have never grown mushrooms, we advise you to start with our ready-to-grow button mushroom kits or our gray oyster mushroom mycelium.

Conservation: 1 month in the fridge

See also: 'How to use our mycelia'

Our commitment to quality:

We produce our mycelia in laboratory conditions, which guarantees the purity of the varieties and optimal quality.

We produce our mycelia 100% organically and all our products are certified “ BE-BIO-01, Agriculture Belgium ” by CERTISYS.

Crop Settings

Inoculation rate: 0.5 to 5% mycelium relative to wet weight compost. Initially it is better to add 5% mycelium to limit the risk of contamination and gradually reduce it when the techniques are perfected.

Example: 1.5kg of mycelium allows you to sow between 30 and 300kg of compost which can produce between 6 and 60kg of fresh mushrooms over 2 harvests in optimal conditions.

Incubation

Initiation of the primordia

Fruiting

These data come in particular from the book “Growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms” by P. Stamets. They are given as indications, each myciculturist having particular growing conditions, there may be individual variations.