Premium Turkey Tail (Trametes Versicolor) 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.
 
Turkey Tail is one of the classic medicinal mushrooms. This strain produces attractive multicoloured fan-shaped brackets with concentric zones of brown, tan, white and blue-grey (resembling a turkey’s tail feathers), and a smooth white pore surface underneath. A reliable, vigorous, wood-loving mushroom, highly recommended wild strain that tolerates a wide range of temperatures and growing conditions!
 
Unique Culture Information
 
Scientific name: Trametes Versicolor
Flavour & texture: Tough and leathery. Turkey Tail is best consumed boiled into teas or soups where it has a mild earthy mushroom taste, it pairs very well with honey, ginger and tumeric making an incredible tea.
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: Medium - Slow fruiter so fruiting conditions must be managed.
Growth speed: Fast on spawn and substrate but slower fruit body development.
Incubation time & temperature: 14-28 days @ 23-25°C
Fruiting temperature: 13-24°C
Yield: Medium - can be difficult to get it to develop deep colours properly when grown indoors.
CO2 Tolerance: Good - fruits best below 1000ppm
Ideal Fruiting Humidity: 70-90%
Native status: Native + grows wild on every continent. 
Recommended Fruiting Substrates:  Masters Mix (50% wood pellets / 50% soy hulls) or 20% Bran + 80% Pine Fire Pellets. Also grows well on hardwood sawdusts.
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 fruiting, cut slits or rectangle hole in filter patch bag.
 
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:
 
>> Turkey Tail Mushroom Grow Kit - ready made and easy
 
>> Sterilised Grain for growing mushrooms
 
>> Dowel (Plug) Spawn - grow on mushrooms logs (Turkey Tail Option)
 
>> Mushroom Liquid Cultures - (Turkey Tail Option)
 
>> Mushroom Cultures on Agar (Turkey Tail Option)
 
Always identify any mushroom before consuming!