Because the black truffle for the growth of the environment is extremely harsh, so the production is also very small, so the price is also more expensive, in Europe black truffle is known as to eat the black diamond, then the black truffle is generally grown in what place?
Where do black truffles grow
Black truffles generally like alkaline limestone soil, the soil is coarse and loose and easy to drain and breathe, the summer growth period when it needs to rain, a little bit of water, but not too much, and it is afraid of the spring when it rains a lot and a long time.
Truffles grow mainly under pine, oak, hazel, beech and orange trees. Because the truffle is unable to photosynthesize on its own to make carbohydrates for growth, it must live with the roots of oak trees***. For example, it will use oak roots to suck up nutrients, so the truffle's range is generally between clumps of trees in forests.
In addition, the black truffle grows and matures every winter, and wherever the truffle matures, the surrounding land and vegetation are as black as if they had been burned by fire. Once the black truffle has been dug up and collected, the vegetation will return to its original state.
How Black Truffle Grows
The growth cycle of black truffle is only 1 year, so the size of black truffle has nothing to do with its age. Every year, the black truffle harvesting season is around the end of March, the overripe black truffle rots and disintegrates, releasing spores that begin to germinate and grow into mycelium, which touches the roots of a tree like a baleen root and produces a ***** relationship.
Around May, the mycelium grows large enough to reproduce sexually and grow into a truffle. The newly formed baby truffles grow slowly, and only begin to grow rapidly during the rainy season in August.
When the cold winds blow, the truffles stop growing and begin to ripen and darken, releasing their distinctive flavor. The ripening period lasts until March of the following year, and the most delicious season is undoubtedly January of the following year, the best time to eat black truffles.
How to find the black truffle
A person going up the mountain to find the black truffle also depends on experience, only need to have rich experience of mushroom farmers to find the black truffle. Because the black truffle grows in the soil, only those who are familiar with the growth habit of the black truffle and its favorite species of trees can find the black truffle.
We can also use external tools, that is, dogs and sows, but sows will eat the truffles as soon as they find them, so most of the time dogs are used to find black truffles.