Hen of the Woods, also known as Maitake, is one of the best tasting gourmet mushrooms. It's truly a culinary delight! This culture was collected in MN from a large, perfect specimen growing at the base of an oak tree. We were successfully able to fruit this strain which is somewhat rare when collecting a new Hen of the Woods culture. Most don't fruit. Enjoy this wonderful mushroom, your taste buds will thank you!
Fruiting Substrates:
-Masters Mix (50/50 oak hardwood sawdust & soybean hulls)
-Oak sawdust & wheat bran @ 15% supplementation
Colonizing Temperature:
70 to 76 F
Fruiting Temperature:
50 to 68 F
Fruiting Humidity:
85 to 95%
Air Exchanges:
2 per hour
New, novel strains of mushrooms are created when starting from spores. You could discover the next popular strain of your favorite variety when growing mushrooms this way. Even better, spore prints are more resistant to extreme weather.
Each spore print order includes 2 prints on separate pieces of tinfoil, packaged in individual plastic bags. Commercial spore prints are taken from commercially viable mushroom strains. Spore prints are taken in sterile lab conditions from indoor grown mushrooms, but note that spore prints are not guaranteed to be 100% sterile due to the nature of how mushrooms grow, and how prints are taken. We recommend adding spores to agar petri dish plates to isolate potential contaminates and the desired strain. We take every precaution to make the cleanest spore prints possible.