Too often there are problems with second flushes. The first flush is rather normal but not extra-ordinary. The problem starts showing on the third harvesting day of that first flush by loss of quality and second flushes do not come back the way they should.
If the casing soil of those rooms is examined closely then it will appear that whatever water is given, it is still very dry. All water given after the first flush seems to be gone before the flush has even started.
Most of the times there is too much mycelium in that casing soil. A problem what was already there before the start of the first flush but really shows in the second.
At that moment the problem cannot be solved anymore. One has to look for solutions before even the fructification has started.
Solutions lay in the choice of casing soil, the amount of water on that casing soil during incubation, the way of watering and in the climate control during casing soil incubation.

Too much mycelium results in too fine strands of mycelium and therefore a lack of water transport to the mushrooms. Mycelium dries out very fast and too much mycelium forms a crust together with the casing soil. What is needed is a thick, white type of mycelium. Only this can guarantee strong, heavy and white mushrooms. Especially in second flushes.

Henk van Gerwen

On April 23 and 24, the Russian Mushroom Days took place at the Azimut Olympic Hotel in Moscow. Every year the event attracts more and more professionals from around the world. And already at the entrance it became obvious that this one was no exception.
Within the Mushroom days, a two-day international conference “Russian mushroom growing: a new quality of growth” was held, at which manufacturers of equipment and services from Russia, Europe and Asia spoke. I was lucky to present products new to the Russian market at the conference: ChampFood supplements and Lambert mycelium. Lambert presented the revolutionary Speed Spawn to the Russian audience, which aroused great interest among those present.
The conference announced the production and consumption of champignons in Russia in 2018 and early 2019, which surpassed all, even the wildest forecasts of previous years. I had the opportunity to talk with the heads of the mushroom enterprises operating and under construction with a total capacity of 70,000 tons of mushrooms per year. It is important to note that the rapid growth of mushroom production in Russia is taking place against the background of a smooth growth of retail and wholesale prices for mushrooms.

In the near future, competition between manufacturers will increase, and the main factor determining the success of enterprises will be the quality of management. Since there are only a few such specialists in Russia, the management culture of large mushroom enterprises should be imported in the same way as equipment and mycelium. For long-term sales of equipment and services in Russia, and even more so for possible investments, it is necessary to supply not only equipment and materials, but also production culture. The farther, the more accessible the material resources will be, but the payback of investment will depend more and more on the culture of their use.

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Recently, Morel mushrooms cultivated in Chongqing Xinjiyuan Agricultural Development Co., LTD are in orderly and desirable growth tendency.
“The Soilless Substrate Cultivation of Morel mushroom has gotten succeeded in our company, and we wholly take charge of it from Culture Preparation to Field Sowing and Field Management, mu output reaches up to 660 kg while mu output value comes to over 50,000 CNY,” introduces general manager of Xinjiyuan Company warmly, going on that now, the company holds two production lines of mushroom culture, and a mushroom base that covers over 6000 mu.

Founded in 2015, Chongqing Xinjiyuan Agricultural Development Co., LTD engages in cultivation and spawn R&D of Morel mushroom, trading services of Master Culture of Morel mushroom and fresh Morel mushroom. By now, it has raised 5 million CNY of investment on construction of mushroom production line which daily outputs 60,000 nutrient bags.

Over the years, the company takes “Relying on agricultural industrial chain” as the principal, leads the transformation of traditional agriculture by the innovative thinking of combination of ecological, green, sightseeing agriculture and modern agriculture.

China is the large agricultural country, during the whole economic system, agriculture also plays a decisive role.

Nowadays, with the development of modernization, and the popularization of Internet, consumers are waking up to the importance of food safety. In recent years, China has unveiled a series of policies regarding agricultural development, especially on green and health food.

In recent years, Morel mushroom cultivation which shows high profit and risk goes viral in China. In order to explore artificial cultivation technology of Morel mushroom, technical staffs working in Xinjiyuan Company went into the deep mountains and forests to observe and know about the growth habit and environment of wild Morel mushroom without fear of hardships and dangers. After unremitting efforts, the company finally made it.

As one of the most valuable rare mushrooms in the world, Morel mushroom also pertains to a kind of high-end nourishment which contains abundant proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and over 20 kinds of amino acids.

Morel mushrooms carry unique fragrance, complete functions and evident effect on food therapy. This kind of mushroom holds the efficacy of tonifying kidney and brain, refreshing while it shows good auxiliary therapeutic effects on dizziness, insomnia, weakness of the spleen and the stomach, indigestion and poor appetite. In addition, Morel mushroom also helps prevent and fight with cancer, ward off colds, enhance the immune system and hence it medically shows crucial development value. Now, in China, market price of dried Morel mushroom is at 1600-2000 CNY per kg. In western European countries, Morels are extremely in tight supply and high price.

On April 28, in automatic production workshop managed by Hunan Guoxiu Food Co., LTD, King oyster mushrooms grow well in bottles.

“Compared with the general way that refers to bag-mode cultivation, we grow King oyster mushrooms in bottles and collect agricultural wastes such as corn stalk, bean stalk, corncob, sawdust and wheat bran as raw materials. By modern biotechnology, mushroom wastes can be reused as organic fertilizers,” introduces Mr. Chen Sheng, vice general manager of Hunan Guoxiu Food Co., LTD. “Daily output capacity on fresh King oyster mushrooms comes to 100,000 bottles, daily fruiting volume reaches 20 tons or so, mushrooms gain popularity by consumers in Spain, Italy, Germany, USA, Canada and other countries. In 2018, export sales on King oyster mushroom totaled over 10 million USD in Guoxiu Company.”

Mushrooms Suisses producers are on site at the BEA Expo and provide information. They pick / harvest live at the BEA. All exhibited mushrooms from Swiss culture are offered for tasting / purchase at Mushrooms Suisses marketstall.

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Now, it is the picking time of Morel mushrooms artificially farmed in Lingshang Cooperative of Yiliang County, Yunnan Province of China.

“We averagely pick at least 100kg of fresh Morel mushrooms per day, and picking period is estimated to terminate by June,” introduces chief of the cooperative warmly.

As one of the most valuable rare mushrooms in the world, Morels also pertain to a kind of high-end nourishment which contains abundant proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and over 20 kinds of amino acids.

Morel mushrooms carry unique fragrance, complete functions and evident effect to food therapy. This kind of mushroom holds the efficacy of tonifying kidney and brain, refreshing while it shows good auxiliary therapeutic effects on dizziness insomnia, weakness of the spleen and the stomach, indigestion and poor appetite. In addition, it also helps prevent and fight with cancer, ward off colds, enhance the immune system and hence it medically shows crucial development value. Now, in China, market price of dried Morel mushroom is at 1600-2000 CNY per kg. In western European countries, Morels are extremely in tight supply and high price.

Now, Grifola frondosa cultivated in Nongchuangke Baigu Garden of Qingyuan County, Zhejiang Province of China are in peak fruiting season, growers are busy with fruiting management.

“In standardized greenhouse, temperature, humidity, ventilation, illumination and other factors are well controlled, which promotes the stable growth of Grifola frondosa while further enhancing the quality,” introduces Mr. Liu Qingfu, principal of Baigu Garden warmly, going on that during the fruiting time, temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide should be well controlled so that Grifola frondosa thrive.

Grifola frondosa is categorized into a kind of edible and rare mushroom, and its cultivation shows high requirement to water quality, air and other natural environment. Now, Qingyuan County annually outputs over 20 million logs of Grifola frondosa, annual output reaches 1500 tons while output value comes to over 300 million CNY.