A process for preparing water-retaining agent used for
edible mushroom cultivation
fungus sticks belongs to the field of agricultural materials. The water-retaining agent is formed by utilizing
wax, resin and oil as main components and utilizing white
carbon black and / or
carbon black and the like as
filling materials, and weight proportion of the water-retaining agent includes that the
wax takes 15%-70%, the resin takes 10%-60%, the oil takes 1%-20% and the
filling materials take 0.1%-5%. The oil and the
wax in the ingredient perform
congruent melting, the resin is added after the wax is completely melted basically, or the oil, the wax and the resin in the ingredient perform congruent melted at temperature of 100-120 DEG C, are added with the
filling materials after the resin is melted completely and then is cooled and shaped to obtain the water-retaining agent. The water-retaining agent is nontoxic, can be safely used for cultivating food materials, is excellent in water-retaining property, and has fine water-retaining property which is more excellent than
paraffin wax used as water-retaining agent by 30%-80%, and
coating of the water-retaining agent in a melting state can be dried fast, thereby bringing convenience for farmers. In addition, the water-retaining agent has certain elasticity and
plasticity, can be freely expandable along with moisturizing and
evaporation of the
fungus sticks, and is favorable for growth of mushrooms with normal and attractive
mushroom shapes. Moreover, after being added with the filling materials, the water-retaining property of the water-retaining agent can be improved, and then the water-retaining agent has a function of identifying appearances of products.