Honey Fungus
Armillaria mellea
Available as
Mother cultures (Petri dish)
Sawdust spawn
Plug spawn
About this strain
Honey fungus is one of the best-loved wild mushrooms in Poland. It forms large clusters of honey-yellow to brown caps 3–10 cm across, with fine dark scales and a white ring on the stem. It has a pronounced flavour; young caps are excellent pickled and in soups and sauces. It is poisonous raw — before cooking, boil it for about 15–20 minutes and discard the water.
It grows more slowly than other wood-decay mushrooms and does best on dead hardwood stumps and logs inoculated with plugs; it fruits in autumn. Caution: honey fungus is a tree parasite and can spread to living trees and shrubs, especially fruit trees — place inoculated wood well away from gardens and orchards. Only pick mushrooms you can identify with certainty.
How to grow it
Preparation
- Substrate
- outdoors: dead hardwood stumps and logs; blocks: hardwood sawdust with approx. 20% supplement, e.g. bran, sterilised
- Spawn rate
- 1–2% on sterilised sawdust
Growing stages
Spawn run (incubation)
- Temperature
- 22–25°C
- Humidity
- 95–100%
- Duration
- long, several weeks
- CO₂
- >5,000 ppm
Fruiting
- Temperature
- autumn type, 15–21°C
- Humidity
- 90–95%
- Fresh air
- good fresh air
- Light
- diffused daylight
Harvest
- Flushes
- clustered flushes
On stumps the first mushrooms usually appear after 1–2 years, then every autumn.
Please note: these growing parameters bring together the experience of practising growers — a starting point, not a guarantee of results. Every grow has its own substrate, climate and equipment, and even small differences can noticeably change the yield. Adjust these values to your own conditions.
Available products
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Mother cultures (Petri dish)
- 1 pc.
Sawdust spawn
- 5 l
Plug spawn
6 × 30 mm
- 30 pcs.
- 1000 pcs.
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