Growing your own Mushroom Kits - Enoki - Stone Lantern Bonsai Nursery

Enoki Mushrooms

How to cultivate your own homegrown mushrooms with the organic mushroom kit

All the different types of mushrooms have a different taste, texture, and use in cooking. Try them out.

You can also watch the instruction video here

Instructions

Place the log upright on work surface

Remove the plug from the center of the log

Stick your finger into the hole in the center

With a firm grip pull the plastic out and open

Spray water onto the exposed log until wet

Mist the humidity bag

Spray bottle – 1lt

R55,00

Add to cart

Place the humidity bag over the log.

Seal the bottom of the humidity bag with tape

Place in an area out of direct sunlight but with good light. Do not place in a room with air-conditioning.

Only remove the humidity bag once the enoki mushrooms are ready to harvest. To develop the long slender enoki as we all see it in the shops, it needs to be kept away from oxygen. Should you treat it like oyster mushrooms the shape of the mushroom will be different (fuller) but it will still taste the same.

Harvest

Second round

Revive the log

After you have harvested the mushrooms, close the opening with sellotape.

Take the center plug out of the log. Agitate the center of the log. Pour it full of water and leave it until the next day.

Pout the water out and replace it again with fresh water and leave again for a day.

Replace the plug in the center core.

Replace the log back into the original tube container.

Place it for 7 days in the vegetable drawer of your fridge.

These steps will ensure that the mycelium (the growth of the mushrooms inside the log) will go into hibernation and will “Reset”

Leave the log at room temperature for a day.

Then start from the beginning again.

This time cut the log in halve.

Repeat the process with both halves.

The second batch of mushrooms will take longer to appear (from around 3 weeks), but they will appear.

You will know that the log is depleted when it feels soft and mushy.

Some useful tips and information

The mushroom will reach maturity (it’s ready for harvesting) when the caps (top part) flattens and the edges browns. Should you leave it longer the mushrooms will start to spawn spores. When the mushroom reaches the stage where it spawns it will have a shorter shelve life compared to if it was harvested when it was ripe.

How to keep mushrooms after harvesting.

Mushrooms will keep in a brown paper bag for up to a week in the fridge.

Do not wash your mushrooms before you put in the fridge. If you do want to wash them do so just before you cook them.

Whole mushrooms will last longer than sliced mushrooms.

Frozen mushrooms can last for 10 to up to 12 months.

You can also dry your mushrooms in the sun or a food dehydrator. Dry until then snap when you break them. Then store in a sealed container in cool dry place. Dried mushrooms can last for up to a year.

To rehydrate the mushrooms just pour boiling water over them and leave for 30 minutes.

Dried mushrooms can be used in soups, sauces, or stews.