Growing Procedure

For Pleurotus djamor diverse substrates are considered suitable. The easiest is cultivation on straw, a better consistency, stronger colors and a better taste you get when cultivating on hardwood substrates. Rose mushrooms are so aggressive that they will colonize even unpasteurized straw (substrate) if only the inoculation rate is high enough. Stem inoculations of hardwoods are possible, but the cultures are not hardy. Do not bury such logs permanently in the ground, but bury them in a barrel to keep the culture mobile.

Except for temperature management, almost all species of Oysters do not differ greatly in terms of suitable substrates and methods. Read more on the subject at my offered oyster mushroom.

Swarm fruiting Pleurotus djamor through defined fruiting windows works better than exposing the substrate all over. In the photos you can see the advantages of reducing fruiting surface. Single holes or a few short cuts in substrate bags produce beautiful clusters with little waste. In hot climates grown on a minimal substrate of pure straw or with too much light, the fruiting bodies bleach quickly. With too little light, they do not form the color properly at all and then sometimes become only yellowish.

Ventilation in the fruiting room prevents later mold growth.

Caution: Coveted by insects and snails, also an extremely strong sporer.

They go about this by excreting digestive enzymes through the tips of root-like extensions called hyphae. The enzymes break down their food leaving a space filled with nutrients that the hyphae can continue growing into, absorbing, and digesting again as it feeds. The hyphae branch and grow into a thicker mass called a mycelium, which maximizes the surface area through which feeding can take place.

Pleurotus Djamor has been successfully grown from a variety of substrates including sawdust, newspaper shavings, and even rolls of toilet paper. If you’re interested in growing them yourself, kits are available online. I’m not about to endorse any of them myself, but you can google it if interested.

The oyster mushroom isn’t a picky fungi in nature either. Pleurotus will grow on a variety of woods.

Growing

Agar Culture Media: MEA
Cropping:
Containers for fruiting:
Biological efficience: 75-150%
Substrates: Sawdust, pasteurized straw, hardwoods, tropical hardwoods

Growing Characteristics

Mushrooms should be harvested before full maturity, when color and flavor are at their best. This species has a short shelf life after harvest, lasting no more than 3-4 days.
Should not be refrigerated. This tropical species can die if kept below ~8˚c.

Natural Habitat

The natural substrate of the Pink Oyster Mushroom is mainly hardwoods such as palm trees, rubber trees and bamboo in the tropics and subtropics, where it is widespread. It decomposes the lignin content of the wood, causing white rot. It relies on relatively high temperatures of 20-30°C, as well as a relative humidity of 95-100% in the air.

Pleurotus djamor is found in the tropics and subtropics of America and Asia. Its range includes South and Latin America, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, Japan, and the Antilles.

In the tropics, subtropics, on palms, rubber trees, bamboo, and grown on deciduous wood at 20-30° Celsius and 95-100% humidity, so it loves warmer regions, post decomposers, triggers white rot, throughout the year.

Gourmet

Some say Pleurotus djamor tastes like bacon.

Flesh

white

Taste

mild

Smell

pungent odour, like nitrate or prussic acid, like almonds

Nutritional content per 100g

other names

other names

Rosenroter Seitling, Rosenseitling, Rosaseitling, Rosafarbener Seitling , Pleurotus Djamor (Syn. Pleurotus Salmoneostramineus, Pleurotus Salmoneo-Stramineus, Pleurotus Djamor Var. Roseus, Lentinus Djamor Var. Roseus), Salmon Oysters, Flamingo Oysters, Takiiro Hiratake (Japan)

Kingdom	Fungi