Premium Enoki mushroom grain spawn – 100% colonised on locally sourced New Zealand grown wheat and ready to be mixed into your substrate for fruiting mushrooms. Spawn is ready to use as soon as it arrives.
 
Golden Enoki (Flammulina velutipes), also known as the Golden Needle Mushroom or Velvet Foot. This culture is a stunning gourmet edible with bright golden caps and long, elegant slender stems. This reliable strain produces abundant, photogenic clusters with beautiful golden hues on sterilised sawdust blocks and enriched substrates. It fruits prolifically indoors in cooler conditions, delivering year-round gourmet harvests of these eye-catching, restaurant-quality mushrooms. Wild strain well suited to NZ climate.
 
Unique Golden Enoki Culture Information
 
Scientific name: Flammulina velutipes
Flavour & texture: Prized for its crisp, crunchy texture and mild, sweet umami flavour with subtle nutty notes, it adds a delicate sophistication to soups, salads, stir-fries, hot pots, ramen, and fresh Asian-inspired dishes – delicious raw or lightly cooked.
Spawn Storage: If you cannot use your spawn right away you can store it for up to 4 months in the fridge. Spawn vitality cannot be guaranteed with fridge storage.
Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Growth speed: Medium, likes to incubate a while before fruiting sometimes.
Incubation time & temperature: 12-30 days @ 23-25°C
Fruiting temperature: 5-16°C
Yield: Very high with large clustered fruit bodies.
CO2 Tolerance: Extremely high - fruits best below 1000ppm if you want normal caps, if you want the long stems enoki is known for run high CO2 levels.
Ideal Fruiting Humidity: 80-90%
Native status: Native
Recommended Fruiting Substrates:  Masters Mix (50% wood pellets / 50% soy hulls) or 20% Bran + 80% Pine Fire Pellets.
Substrate Preparation Method: 15PSI pressure sterilised substrate in filter patch bags or heat pasteurised (90-99deg for 12+ hours) substrate in filter patch bags
Growing Style: Side-fruiter: Pins often form under the filter-patch plastic. Let them develop for a few days, then cut the bag around the pins so the mushrooms can push through and grow outward. This strain will often pin a lot under the plastic, just pick one or two clusters to cut the plastic near and it will redirect energy to these clusters, ignore the rest growing under the plastic.
 
Receiving Spawn:
Upon receiving your spawn it is ideal to take it out of the box within a day or two, stand the top of the bag up so the filter patch is exposed and the spawn can breath. Keep in a room temperature (10-25°C) place out of direct sunlight until used.
 
Beginners / first-time growers:
If you’ve never used grain spawn before (or you’re not sure how to mix it into substrate), start with our >> Easy 5 Step Oyster Grow Kits instead.
These kits include grain spawn and bulk substrate with detailed step-by-step instructions that teach you exactly how to use spawn to grow mushrooms. It’s the easiest way to learn the whole process hands-on.
 
All spawn and culture work is done in-house in our own laboratory.
 
All spawn cultures we offer have been sourced within NZ or imported under MPI import permit with permission to on-sell.
 
Customers who buy Mushroom Grain Spawn often also purchase:
 
>> Sterilised Grain for growing mushrooms
 
>> Dowel (Plug) Spawn - for mushrooms logs (Enoki Option)
 
>> Mushroom Liquid Cultures - (Enoki Option)
 
>> Mushroom Cultures on Agar (Enoki Option)
 
Always identify any mushroom before consuming!