Agrocybe aegerita : Pioppino, Black Poplar Mushroom Culture Syringe

Material provided in sterile aqueous solution using 10cc BD Luer-Lok syringes. One 1.5in 16ga needle will be provided for each syringe.

Cultivation Difficulty: Moderate
Type: Edible
Substrate: hardwood chips and sawdust, hardwood logs
Colonization/Fruiting Temperatures: 70-80F/50-60F

This is a sweet flavored mushroom that fruits readily within a completely sealed MycoBag(TM). This is good news for budding mycologists that don't want to worry about contamination and sterility problems. The complete life cycle can be contained and observed in the sealed sterile MycoBag(TM) environment. We ran a few tests and found this species will fruit weakly within a sealed Grain Based MycoBag(TM) but produces far better results in a wood-based bag. Fruiting was stimulated when the bag was exposed to fairly cool temperatures around 50-60 degrees F.

Advanced growers with good climate controlled fruiting chambers may want to apply a casing layer to increase yields.

After two flushes the Wood Based MycoBag(TM) was buried outdoors under some vegetable plants which resulted in a small crop of mushrooms.