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Mushroom spawn | Fatir General Trading
Mushroom spawn | Fatir General Trading
Mushroom grain spawn is used as the carrier to transfer mycelium to bulk substrate in a process called inoculation. Once you add grain spawn to your substrate the mycelium will form a network to colonise and consume the substrate – and eventually fruit mushrooms!
Fatir Laboratory supplies top-quality mushroom grain spawn of a wide variety of mushroom species to home-growers and commercial mushroom farmers alike – all made in our commercial facility in Tehran, Iran.
Description
Mushroom spawn
Spawn is a carrier that holds a particular strain of mushroom mycelium in a quiescent state until the grower is ready to transfer it to another substrate such as wood logs, straw, compost, etc. Its main advantage is that it reduces the chance of contamination while giving the mushrooms a solid start. Spawn can be myceliated grain, sawdust, and wooden dowels (plugs and pegs). The goal of the spawn is to spread the mycelium to its final habitat, where it can grow, settle, digest food, and eventually bear fruit. Mushroom spawning is a critical step in mushroom cultivation and proper care must be taken to ensure that the mycelium remains uncontaminated and healthy throughout the process.
Mycelium, or actively growing mushroom culture, is placed on a substrate—usually sterilized grains such as rye or millet—and induced to grow into those grains. This is called inoculation. Inoculated grains are referred to as spawn. Spores are another inoculation option, but are less developed than established mycelium. Since they are also contaminated easily, they are only manipulated in laboratory conditions with a laminar flow cabinet.
All of our mushroom grain spawn is grown on Iranian dry wheat and is cultured and inoculated in the highest-quality clean rooms and laboratory. We can vouch for its top-notch quality as we handle every step of the process – from tissue culture, to agar, to grain sterilization. The grain spawn you are purchasing is exactly the same spawn we use daily for our commercial fruiting block production.
Our Mushroom Spawn Products
Fatir Laboratory has been producing mushroom spawns for many years. To make spawns, we grow specialty mushroom strains in our lab and then cultivate them into various forms for your use, including sawdust, grain, dowel plugs, and mycoremediation. Our technicians have accumulated a great deal of successful production experience and work hard to provide our customers with quality-assured mushroom spawns.
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