Birch pellets

Pressed heat-treated birch pellets for mushroom cultivation. Suitable for almost all types of mushrooms we sell. ATTENTION! Only available for delivery within Sweden .

Birch pellets are a very good "all-around" substrate for mushroom cultivation. We are one of the very few that sell untreated birch pellets, developed specifically for mushroom cultivation. Birch pellets contain high levels of readily available nutrition for the mycelium and can be used for most of our mushroom species. Can also be advantageously combined with both oak and straw pellets.

Beer smoke pellets are suitable for both indoor and outdoor cultivation. Either use our fast growing mycelium, grain spawn or if you want to clone your already grown mushroom house.

When growing in a grow bag:
Pour 1 kg (1000 grams) of birch pellets into a large-sized osling bag. Add 1.9 liters of boiling water, fold the opening of the bag over itself so that contamination does not get in, and let cool to room temperature. Then mix 10-15 percent (100-150 grams) of fast-growing mycelium or grain spawn for a substrate of about 2.7 - 3 kg. A rule of thumb is to always mix in at least 10 percent fast-growing mycelium or grain spawn per 1 kg of dry substrate. The more mycelium you mix in, the faster the colonization.

For replanting a mushroom house, clean and healthy mycelium from a Mushroom House is mixed with 5 kilos of birch pellets and 9.5 liters of water. The material is distributed in 5 cultivation bags with approx. 3 kg in each bag. After 3 weeks, you have approx. 15 kg of mycelium that you can either choose to plant in the bags, or use for planting out in outdoor cultivation.

And as always; You can never be too clean when growing mushrooms. Clean your hands and the tools you will be using before you start pouring the mixture into the grow bags. Please wash your hands beforehand if you have the opportunity.

Suitable grow bags: Grow bag large.

The mushroom house's heat-treated birch pellets are of the highest quality and ready to use. It is fine to add boiled water that has cooled to birch pellets, but to further reduce the risk of contamination, you can advantageously use freshly boiled hot water to pasteurize an extra time. Our birch pellets, straw and oak pellets are already pasteurized during production, but if you want to be extra sure that you avoid contamination, you can do as above.

The volume, but not the weight, of the contents of the bag may vary slightly depending on the time of year the oak shavings were pressed and that they collapse during storage and transport.

What is the difference between birch pellets, oak pellets and straw pellets? The main difference is that birch pellets come from birch sawdust, oak pellets from oak sawdust and straw pellets from ground compressed straw. All our pellets are produced under very high heat when they are pressed into pellets, which means that you do not need to add any unnecessary binding agents to bind the pellets together. Straw provides slightly faster, but not as complex nutrition and is a good substrate in general for mushroom cultivation. Oak pellets provide a more complex nutrient content, and tend to yield more with colonization taking longer. Birch pellets are something in between and give faster colonization than oak, but not as fast as straw pellets. Not as good a harvest as oak, but better than straw pellets.

It is also good to mix both birch and straw pellets. Then we recommend a combination of 70 percent birch pellets and 30 percent straw pellets. It is also possible to mix birch and oak pellets. Then we recommend 50/50 of both varieties. If you want, you can experiment with mixing both birch, oak and straw pellets. Then a guideline is 35 percent birch pellets, 35 percent oak pellets and 30 percent straw pellets.