During
mushroom planting production, except for the demand for sufficient nutritional substances on a culture medium,
mushroom sticks are required to have forming strength, air permeability, easy
hypha invasion and the like. A
mushroom culture medium comprises 70% or above of hard materials including
cottonseed hull, oak chips, sawn timber chips and the like, which are compact in texture. The contents of such nutritional substances as
cellulose protein and the like in the culture medium are high, and the produced mushroom is good in quality. In order to guarantee the air permeability, large-particle mixtures are generally used, and as the hard particles with compact textures lead to difficult core invasion of hyphae, the utilization ratio of raw materials is low. Explosion puffing equipment is utilized to perform puffing treatment on the hard culture medium to enable tissues to become loose and porous, so that large particles of the raw materials are maintained to guarantee the air permeability, the hyphae can easily invade the cores of the particles, and accordingly, the utilization ratio of the raw materials is improved. As
cellulose substances are degraded, time for edible mushrooms to degrade the
cellulose substances through self-
metabolism is shortened, and carbon sources required for growth of the edible mushrooms are increased.
Protein in the culture medium is subjected to denaturation, and part of
protein is degraded into
free amino acids, so that the
edible mushroom culture medium is richer in
nutrition, absorption and growth of the edible mushrooms are facilitated, particularly, in the early growth stage of the hyphae, owing to rich
nutrition, the hyphae grow to be thick, accordingly, the mushroom quality is improved, the mushroom yield is increased, the production time is shortened, and
economic benefits are improved.