Fruit Growth Fruit Growth Commercial matsutake harvesters ability to determine how fast a patch will grow, is essential in many aspects. Graphs below are based on the Boswell Matsutake Studies. Variations in correlation are attributed to harvester error, or error in monitoring design. Number one production is compared with daily temperature variation, hi - low. Those individual mushrooms, or patches, which receive direct sun, mature faster.
Temperatures vary on North aspects much less than South.
A variety of weather changes zoned by elevation, Clouds, fog and inversion.