Shiitake

Lentinula edodes

Our strain ID: 1014

Available Here: Liquid Culture, Colonised Culture Plates on Agar, Master Culture Slants.

Intermediate Cultivation

Strain Profile

Shiitake is one of the most popular cultivated mushrooms in the world. Native to Japan, Korea, and China. Delicious and versatile, a very rewarding mushroom to cultivate.

Shiitake fruits on hardwood logs or supplemented hardwood sawdust.

Growing Shiitake outside on logs is a low-maintenance and rewarding method for the patient cultivator. Solid logs may take 12-18 months to fruit after inoculation with plug spawn, but will then produce mushrooms seasonally for up to 5 years!

This strain fruits from 14-18˚c. A Cold Weather strain, naturally fruiting in Autumn in temperate climates, it can be staggered with a Warm Weather strain such as Night Velvet (1026) which will produce in Spring/Summer.

Preferred agar culture media: MYA, PDYA

Preferred substrate: Hardwood Logs, Supplemented Sawdust. Particularly favours Oak and Beech.

Also Known As:

Golden Oak Mushroom
Black Forest Mushroom
Oakwood Mushroom
Shiang Ku (China)
Donku
Pasania

Growing Parameters

Spawn Run

Temperature: 21-27°c
Relative Humidity: 95-100%
Duration: 35-70 days
CO2: 10,000 ppm
Fresh Air Exchanges: 0-1 per hour
Light Requirements: n/a

Primordia Formation

Temperature: 10-16°c
Relative Humidity: 95-100%
Duration: 5-10 days
CO2: <1000 ppm
Fresh Air Exchanges: 4-7 per hour
Light Requirements: 500-2000 lux

Fruiting

Temperature: 14-18°c
Relative Humidity: 60-80%
Duration: 5-8 days
C02: <1000 ppm
Fresh Air Exchanges: 4-8 per hour
Light Requirements: 500-2000 lux