Saffron milk cap mycelium gives you the chance to feel like in the woods full of delicious mushrooms in your own garden. You find unique biological spawns on grain from the most renown Polish producer in our offer. You may start to grow the most delicious forest mushrooms in your garden now! Buy spawn of the excellent saffron milk cap, plant it according to the instructions and enjoy rich crops for 3 - 5 years without the need to perform any special care measures.

Saffron milk cap or red pine mushroom (Lactarius deliciosus) belongs to the most delicious and coveted gills mushrooms that grow in our climate zone. You may pick it from August to November in mixed forests and coniferous young woods in the neighbourhood of pines. This species can be easily recognised by its characteristic, smooth cap that reaches 5 - 15 cm in diameter and is flattened or funnel-shapeda and concave. It takes on a vivid, rusty-red-orange colour with darker rings that spread outwards to the edges. Fruit bodies gills are also orange and densely packed, while the stems are cylindrical, hollow and covered with small holes and spots. The whole mushroom grows 7 - 10 cm tall. Its creamy, firm and crisp flesh presents an excellent, slightly savoury and sour taste. Saffron milk caps can be pickled, marinated and we recommend to fry or steam mushrooms with meat and vegetables with a distinct taste - such as onion, pepper and zucchini.

In order to enjoy the decorative fruit bodies in your own garden we recommend to plant the spawn 0.5 - 5 m away from a pine tree trunk. One package is sufficient to plant three holes 15 cm deep. Saffron milk caps should be planted on a permeable, acidic soil, so fill the holes in one half with peat garden substrate and spread a few handfuls of the mycelium (1/3 of the package per hole) onto it. Then cover the mycelium with the remaining garden soil, tamp down and abundantly water around the planting site. It is advised to use water with sugar (10 g of sugar per 10 l of water) for the first watering. Feeding the spawn will result with quicker and more abundant mushroom development. You will get the first crops in the second year of cultivation.

The package contains ground biological spawn (mycelium) on grain. Detailed growing instructions have been included in the package information. You may plant the mycelium all season long, from mid-April to October. The producer estimates the probability of successful saffron milk cup development for 85 - 87%. The emergence of mushrooms depends on the environmental conditions and proper site preparation: saffron milk cap lives in mycorrhizal symbiosis with pines. It requires watering in the longer summer drought periods.