Orange birch bolete mycelium is a proven method for growing edible forest mushrooms in your own garden. You will find high quality organic spawn coming from a renown producer in our offer. You only need to spread it in the soil, preferably in the neighbourhood of young birches and you will quickly enjoy the first harvest of impressive, tasty orange birch boletes that are perfectly fitted for preserves. Properly planted mycelium guarantees rich harvest of the fruit bodies in the next 3 - 4 years, without the need for special care measures.
Orange birch bolete (Leccinum versipelle) develops firm, rather hard fruit bodies that grow 10 - 20 cm tall and end with pillow-shaped caps that reach 6 - 16 cm in diameter. Young fungi have thick, barrel-shaped stems that grow slenderer, conical with time. They take on grey-white colour and are covered with brown scabers, typical for this species. The caps are semi-circular, dome-shaped, orange and covered with velvety fine moss at the beginning and than turn lighter in colour, flatter and broader in shape as well as dry and smooth. The greyish tubes end with tiny, round pores that are olive-grey at first and turn brown with age. Since the flesh of the orange birch bolete is thick and flesh, compact and firm. The fruit bodies of this species are resistant to pests and very productive. They are served in sauces, soups and steamed, as addition to roasted meat. You may also dry or marinate them in jars. They display tender, excellent taste and subtle aroma.
In order to sow mycelium in your garden, equip yourself with garden soil rich in peat, as orange birch boletes prefer light, permeable soil. Dig three holes 15 cm deep and 30 - 40 cm wide in the vicinity of young broad-leaved trees, prefereably birches. Fill them to the half with the soil, place the mycelium there (1/3 of package per hole) and cover with the rest of the garden soil. Tamp the surface, water it and cover the site with forest mulch, such as needles or moss. That's all! Orange birch bolete planted in spring or early summer may bear crops in the same year. If you plant the mycelium at a later stage (in October the latest), you will harvest the first fruit bodies in the following season. Up to twenty impressive mushrooms should develop on each of the sites. The harvest will continue for the next 3 - 4 years.
The package contains ground biological spawn (mycelium) on grain. Detailed growing instructions have been included in the package information. The producer estimates the probability of successful orange birch bolete development for 85 - 87%. The emergence of mushrooms depends on the environmental conditions and proper site preparation: please remember that orange birch bolete lives in mycorrhizal symbiosis with birch trees. It also needs watering in the longer summer drought periods.
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All seeds we sell are subject to a multi-level quality control checks and only then are carefully packed and dispatched. Our products have been awarded numerous certificates and comply with the highest standards of the European Union. Our employees are experienced gardeners who are more than happy to answer your every question.
Where do our seeds come from?
All of the seeds sold in our shop come from the best producers from across the European Union. Thanks to a long-standing cooperation with them we were able to develop the most adequate storing and dispatch conditions, guaranteeing that you always receive fresh and carefully tested batches of seeds. Exclusion of the middlemen from the whole process not only makes it possible for us to avoid sending out-of-date seeds that might have been lying too long on a warehouse shelf, but also ensures the most attractive price for top quality products.
The quality control process
All our seeds must pass a four-stage quality control process.
Stage one begins with a careful selection of the suppliers. Than we proceed with controlling their crops, foreign producers are not excluded from the quality control process. Plants are checked at every stage of their development: when they start to grow, during blooming and when they start bearing fruit (seeds). At this stage the most important thing is to ensure proper spacing of the plants. Thanks to that obtaining the desired morphological characteristics of each particular species or variety, such as colour, height and shape, can be ensured.
Stage two consists of a detailed verification tests in laboratory conditions. With the use of the highest quality equipment by the highly qualified staff, our suppliers perform more than 30 000 quality checks annually. The seeds that do not meet our requirements are subject to technological refining processes, including drying, cleaning, upgrading and testing again.
Stage three starts with sowing seeds in selected control plots. That way we obtain valuable, exact information concerning their germination that must be maintained at an appropriate level. Simultaneously, the varietal identity of each species is checked at this stage.
Stage four takes place in our warehouses and consists of eliminating seeds that have been stored for too long on our shelves and replacing them with new batches. Each package is stamped with a unique batch number and also with the sow-by-date.
All four stages combined allow us to state with confidence that the seeds we deliver comply with the highest standards and have completed all required control stages with flying colours.
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The seeds we sell are widely recognized for their quality and have won many awards. Our seeds won numerous gold medals and distinctions for their high quality. The World of Flowers was also honoured for its innovative approach.
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In addition, we have also been awarded the “IDEAL BUSINESS” certificate for two years in a row.
Germination
We are committed to selling only the highest quality seeds. Taking into consideration the efforts we make daily, please also note that plants are living organisms and their germination and growth depends on many factors, such as temperature, soil type, humidity and the frequency with that they are watered, sowing time and conditions, use of fertilizers and plant protection agents (pesticides), as well as weather and climate conditions. We provide help by sharing the accurate and up-to-date sowing and growing information, however, we cannot bear any responsibility for the plants that were not cultivated in conditions appropriate for given species.
