Shiitake mushrooms, also known as winter mushrooms, are the best of edible mushrooms with their crispy flesh and delicious flavor. It is the best edible mushroom in the world. Nearly one hundred kinds of famous dishes in China are inseparable from shiitake mushrooms, and especially in foreign Chinese restaurants, shiitake mushrooms are listed as indispensable auxiliary ingredients.
Shiitake mushrooms are rich in nutrients, and their protein content is several times higher than that of common fruits and vegetables. Eating shiitake mushrooms can prevent colds, cirrhosis of the liver, but also eliminate blood toxins, reduce cholesterol, prevent pediatric rickets and so on. In recent years, domestic and foreign experts also found that shiitake mushrooms contain substances that can inhibit the growth of cancer cells and have a certain anticancer effect, so it is becoming more and more expensive.
The life of shiitake mushroom also begins with the germination of spores, the growth of white, fluffy mycelium, the growth and development of mycelium to form the substrate, and the maturation of the substrate can produce spores and reproduce offspring. Under natural conditions, a generation of shiitake mushrooms takes about 8 to 12 months, which can be shortened to 3 to 4 months by using artificial surrogate cultivation.
China's cultivation of shiitake mushrooms has a history of more than 700 years, and it is the first country in the world to cultivate them. Earlier cultivation are used in situ to the hemp oak, gun oak and other trees sawed into sections, decentralized management, so that the mushroom spores naturally drift down inoculation method, not only low yield, and logging and deforestation losses. In recent years, people separated the pure mushroom strain, and then artificial inoculation, high success rate, the effect is remarkable. And also created a substitute material block cultivation method, so that no wood resources and even the townspeople can also produce shiitake mushrooms.
Substitute mushroom block cultivation method, is the use of wood chips, bagasse, corn cobs, sorghum poles and other agricultural by-products as raw materials, according to a certain proportion of matching, mixed with water and put into a plastic bag, compacted into a block, instead of a section of wood. Every bag hit the inoculation hole, access to the strain moved into the mushroom room, under certain temperature and humidity conditions for cultivation. After about 3 months, the mushroom gradually develops into shiitake. A block of mushroom can be harvested about 5 to 7 batches, and each block can collect 1.5 kilograms of fresh mushrooms on average.