How much spawn do I need to plant a Wine Cap bed?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- We often get asked how much spawn you need to plant a wine cap bed. To answer this we planted 7 different Wine Cap plots each with different spawn rates to test the difference in time to initial fruiting.
All 7 plots produced mushrooms within one year with the overarching conclusion being: if you want mushrooms faster, use more spawn.
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Wine Cap Sawdust Spawn: www.fieldfores...
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I think it warrants mentioning - the type of wood chips MATTER! For instance, the colored wood mulch not only has dye on it, but much of that wood comes from ground up pallets which are treated with fungicides!
2 questions -
1. how long will such a bed continue to produce? Is there a way to keep the production going?
2. Can you interplant annual vegetables in such plots- or create such plots in established garden beds?
Wood chip beds may fruit up for to 3 years, but production will decline over time. When this begins to happen, you can try to rejuvenate your bed by feeding it new wood chips. Simply adding several inches of chips to the top of an existing bed, ideally in spring or after a mushroom harvest may prolong life (but not indefinitely). Bed rejuvenation is not a guarantee, but if the Wine Cap is still vigorous enough, it will begin to colonize the new materials and be ready for more fruiting several months later. We recommend adding new spawn to fresh materials for a much more successful approach and good harvests.
You can plant within garden beds or vegetable plots, but you would not want to disturb the mushroom beds once planted, so that may be difficult to accomplish (areas in open sun without much foliage cover may dry out bed as well). Many people plant wine cap in the hardwood and softer hardwood chips they place around their perennial or border plantings.
Are these perennial or will you have to keep adding spawn?
Very interesting experiment perfectly conducted. Thanks a lot.
Cool, thanks ! 😁
Very nice. I put my first bed in in June. Roughly 4x8 and used the 2.5 pound bag of sawdust spawn from you guys. I'm hoping to see something this fall but realize it may be next year due to my timing. I've noticed in a couple of your vids on Winecaps that your plots tend to be on the shaded side of something; a greenhouse in one and a woodland area in this one. I've got mine under canopy as well as shadecloth hung over the area. I'd say it's still only 80-90% shade as some sunlight comes through. Is this too much shade? Thanks!
That sounds just fine! Something you'll want to make sure though is that the shade cloth is elevated off the bed (and it sounds like it is!) as Wine Cap do need some airflow.
Your shade is good. I would not have less than 80% shade. Any mushrooms that emerge in direct sunlight will often come out in the burgundy color but fade to the tan colors.
This is great work 👍
I scattered your wine cap spawn into my wood chip vegetable bed last year. I have them coming up in 5 different patchs!!! Yeah! However after leaving the few I harvested overnight to make spore prints the were lots of small white worms/larva coming out of them. I'm afraid to eat any of them now.
Excellent done video...please do a video on production (volume) and price savings..vs .....market prices (which are higher this year...)
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How old is the hardwood much you are using?
The wood chips/mulch is about 6 months old.
@@FieldandForestProducts ..can I use fesh mulch from hardwood trees? I heard fresh mulch will not wirk. The tree still has properies to fight fungus....mycileum? Best mulch to use for winecaps? How old is best mulch? I tried this twice so far...in 2 years...only one mushroom...lasagne style..cardboard, mulch spawn, cardboard...watering schedule for 1st year beds in my area? .I am in Atlanta
Softer hardwood chips ( like box elder, cottonwood, willow, soft maple, magnolia, etc.) work best. Hardwood chips (oak, etc.) should be left outside to age for several months prior to use. If you are putting soaked cardboard down first on top of the soil for weed suppression, then we recommend poking lots of holes in the cardboard so that water doesn't pool in bed, and so that spawn can work its way to the soil. If you'd like to go over the method you used to find out what may be happening, please give us a call. Here's the full instruction sheet link: www.fieldforest.net/product/wine-cap-instruction-sheet/instruction-sheets
Do you use a hardwood wood chips or can you use pine chips?
We recommend using softer hardwood chips (like aspen, willow, poplar) and/or hardwood chips (oak, sugar maple, etc.). Pine chips are not recommended.
Thanks for your recommendation.@@FieldandForestProducts
I have colonized new beds with individual wood chips.
Just don't expect results until the next year.
Great video! Mushrooms are definitely a crop to teach patience 😅 many thanks!