Patent ID: 6367191
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
A method of sawdust-based cultivation of Shiitake (Cortinellus Shiitake) comprising:covering a square-shaped cultivation bed containing a sawdust-based substrate and having a weep hole at a bottom surface, with a bag of synthetic fiber sheet film; sterilizing and cooling said bag by a conventional method; inoculating said cultivation bed with mushroom spawns after having finished sawdust-based cultivation of Shiitake primordium; cutting only a top portion of said bag containing said sawdust-based substrate to expose a top surface of said sawdust-based substrate; forming a gap between the bag and the cultivation bed; pouring water into said gap in order to restrain primordium from fruiting from side and bottom faces of said sawdust-based substrate; and allowing said primordium to fruit and grow only from the top surface of said sawdust-based substrate.