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.
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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.
Prizes and awards
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.
Among those awards there were: TOP INNOVATION (June 2015), GOLD MEDAL AT THE POZNAN INTERNATIONAL FAIR (2015), CONSUMER QUALITY LEADER (2014), FARMER OF THE YEAR (2014).
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.
