Cultivating Boletus
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Puchini (The little Pig) is the King of edible mushrooms, part of the Mushroom hunters big 5. Yet this sought after product is not easily obtainable. It stubbornly resists cultivation and is currently supplied exclusively out of the wild. It can only be eaten within 24 hours or dried and rehydrated.
B edulis is a spidery fungus that grows along the roots of big trees, particularly those with wet or damp feet like oaks and pines. One tree - one fungus. The mushrooms that we so desire are the fruits that spawn seed - flowers. The true life form is crawling along all the roots of the tree.
So really what we need is a forest and bang - a fungus under every and a regular supply of porchini. Not so in a typical pine forest less that 1 in 20 trees will carry the gold. So why is the porchini so rare?
The answer to this question lies deep in the anatomy and sociology of Fungi - along with animals and vegitables - one of the 3 major multicellular life groups on earth. Fungi don't know that b edulis is delicious. They have their own problems. In the murky world if fugus its a dog-eat-dog-eat-mushroom world. Bascially every tree has a fungus - its part of the simbiotic growth of the root system. But other species drive out b edulis. Only under very special circumstances, slope, sunlight, temperature so we find boletus. The strongest and not necessarily the most delicious survive. Unless these conditions are met, boletis sadly gives way to one of its more agressive and less tasty competitors.
Solution
- Get a pine forest area with near perfect conditions
- Set up irrigation
- Set up Relfectors and shading to control light and heat
- implement a poisoning and spawning prgram that takes out the less delicious strains and replaces them with b edulis.
- sprinkle with water every full moon and serve with natural herbs and olive oil.
