Beautiful Chestnut mushrooms maintain a crunch throughout cooking. They have a rich, slightly nutty flavor and are quite tasty! This commercial strain produces large bouquets of mushrooms with amber caps often yielding over 1.5 lbs from a 5 lb supplemented sawdust block. This mushroom prefers high initial humidity to start growing.
Fruiting Substrates:
-Masters mix (50/50 hardwood sawdust & soybean hulls)
-Masters mix (50/50 hardwood sawdust & soybean hulls)
-Hardwood sawdust & wheat bran @ 20% supplementation by weight
Colonizing Temperature:
65 to 78 F
Fruiting Temperature:
55 to 70 F
Fruiting Humidity:
93 to 98%
Air Exchanges:
4 per hour
Fruiting Temperature:
55 to 70 F
Fruiting Humidity:
93 to 98%
Air Exchanges:
4 per hour
All mushroom culture slants and petri dishes are guaranteed to be 100% clean, viable and proven fruiting strains of mushroom. Commercial strains are tested by growing and evaluating speed of colonization, fruit body form, and yield weight.
Slant cultures come in a 50ml conical centrifuge tube on nutrient agar.
Petri dish cultures come in a 100mm x 15mm petri dish on nutrient agar.