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Our White Enoki is a first-generation isolate of a white Flammulina velutipes cultivar selected for small caps and long, pale stems. It colonizes in about ten days, then asks for something no other species does: you shape the fruit yourself with cold, darkness and trapped CO2.
About ten days on grain, one of the quickest cultures in our lineup.
The long, thin grocery-store form is something you produce on purpose. Getting it right is the challenge and the payoff.
Mild, lightly sweet and crisp. Separate the clusters and drop them into ramen, hot pot or clear soup at the end.
Let the syringe reach room temperature, then shake it gently to break up and spread the mycelium through the broth.
Flame the needle until it glows, let it cool a few seconds, and wipe the injection port with the included alcohol pad.
Use 2–3cc per quart jar or 3–5cc per 3–5 lb grain bag. One 10cc syringe inoculates about 2–4 containers.
Keep it at 70–75°F in the dark. Shake once at about 30% colonization to speed things up.
Collar it, chill it, keep it dark: fit a paper or plastic collar around the container so CO2 pools around the cluster, hold it at the cold end of the range and keep light to a minimum. That's what makes long stems and tiny caps.
From our lab to your grainRun it into jars with wide-mouth cultivation lids or your own lids with self-healing injection ports. Spare 16G needles and sterile Luer Lock syringes are sold separately.
Use 2–3cc per quart grain jar and 3–5cc per 3–5 lb spawn bag. One 10cc White Enoki syringe inoculates roughly two to four containers. Using more doesn't speed colonization much; it just uses up the syringe.
About 10 days at 70–75°F, then roughly 14 days to harvest once fruiting conditions start. The cold end of the fruiting range gives the classic form.
Rye berries for spawn, then hardwood sawdust, supplemented straw or hardwood pellets for bulk. Tall containers make it easier to collar the clusters.
Too much fresh air, light or warmth. In open air at room temperature this cultivar fruits as short mushrooms with broad caps. Collar the container to trap CO2, keep it cold and nearly dark, and the stems stretch while the caps stay small.
Refrigerate it at 35–45°F in the bag it shipped in and never freeze it; freezing ruptures the cells and kills the culture. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before you inject.
Liquid culture is living mycelium from an isolated culture, so it skips germination, colonizes days faster and gives genetically consistent fruits. Spores have to germinate and pair up first, which is slower and more variable from grow to grow.
Liquid culture is living mycelium, so every syringe leaves our lab in a foil-lined insulated mailer. The insulation buffers it against summer heat in a delivery truck and against sub-freezing winter temperatures, so it arrives viable either way.
When it arrives: refrigerate the syringe at 35–45°F until you're ready to inoculate. Never freeze it. Bring it to room temperature and shake gently before use.
Price: $12.50