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King Stropharia Garden Giant Spawn - Raintree Nursery

King Stropharia Garden Giant Spawn

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$33.99 - $33.99
$33.99
$33.99 - $33.99
$33.99
SKU P275D

Stropharia rugoso-annulata

Also know as the 'Wine Cap'. As the name implies this mushroom can get large (up to 5lbs), but these beautiful, wine-red mushrooms are far tastier when picked at the button stage. It is a very easy mushroom for the home cultivator and can be readily grown in your berry, vegetable and flowers beds. Once introduced to your garden, this species will often become truly perennial, appearing year after year. King Stropharia is very heat and cold tolerant and can be grown in most parts of the country.

Just mix FRESH hardwood chips or sawdust with our King Stropharia spawn, mulch around your garden with the spawned chips and keep moist. In 6 to 12 months the mushrooms will begin to appear, and in many parts of the country will continue fruiting from spring through fall.  If hardwood chips or sawdust are not available, un-composted straw will also work; in Germany they grown them right on straw bales. One 5lb bag of spawn should inoculate a wheelbarrow full of chips.

Size Options: 1 Mushroom Kit
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  • How cold tolerant is the mycelium, Can it survive the winter in illinois zone 5?

    Yes, King Stropharia (Stropharia rugosoannulata) can grow in Zone 5, as it is considered a very cold-tolerant mushroom species and can thrive in a wide range of climates, including those with colder winters typical of Zone 5.

  • Just to be clear, the block of inoculated sawdust should be broken up and mixed with wood chips and kept watered?

    Broken up and covered with wood mulch. Kept watered and shaded if possible.

  • can this be started indoors in the winter?

    Absolutely.

  • are your wine caps spawn in sawdust or grain?

    Sawdust is used as the medium.

  • I live east of the Cascades 90 miles NW of Spokane. It's much drier here than it is west of the Cascades. Will this mushroom work as directed in a drier, colder, hotter climate?

    Yes, but you will have to keep the moisture up. Heat and cold don't really matter to mushrooms, but humidity does. Even in Western WA keeping them watered is a big part of success.

  • What do these taste like?

    Raw? Not much. Cooked in butter? Like butter!

  • If spread in a veggie or flower bed, will this mushroom overtake the bed?

    Overtake? No. Fruit? Potentially yes.