1. Choose superior strain with disease and insect resistance.
2. The selection of location on mushroom house: mushroom house should be in rectangular from north to south, which is fit for ventilation. At the same time, farmers should also pay attention to the environment around mushroom house and keep away from animal houses and koji plant.
3. The sterilization of mushroom house: one day before using, farmer could conduct fumigation, the specific methods are:
A. Fumigation of Formaldehyde and Potassium permanganate: in general, each 10 cubic metres need 8ml, 40% of formaldehyde, 5g of Potassium permanganate. Or each 10 square metres need 210ml of Formalin, 210g of quicklime and 21ml of concentrated sulfuric acid, then gasification should be conducted immediately. When making fumigation, farmer should paste air leakage place up of window and door.
B. Fumigation disinfection with Sulfur dioxide: burn sulfur in cultivation room and sterilize by Sulfur dioxide. Farmer could put a ceramic vessel indoors, add paper or wood shaving on top of it and add Sulfur, then burn paper or wood shaving to fumigate. What’s more, it is better to put vessel above cultivation room, the crucial important thing is that sporadic gas will corrode metal and cloth, farmers should pay attention to that.
C. Sterilization by bleaching powder: high-efficient bleaching power is chloride of lime, the application method is to mix 1.8 liters of water with 1g of bleaching powder, reposing for 1 to 2 hours and then take clear liquid to spray 1 liter in each square meter, what’s more, cultivation shelves need to be sprayed by 5% of copper-bath.
4. Cultivation management:
A. The adjustment of temperature and humidity: high humidity is the best environment for sundry fungus to grow and breed. When outside temperature is relatively high, relative air humidity of mushroom house should be reduced and controlled in 85%-90%. If the humidity is too high, the growth of mould will be very quick, which influences the output and quality of Enoki mushroom. Farmers should also pay attention to the ventilation and keep fresh indoor air.
B. Get rid of polluted bottles and bags by burying or burning to prevent infection of other bottle and bag.
C. Farmers should sterilize and fumigate house after each harvesting.
D. Cultivation managements: farmers could add bleaching powder and oxytetracycline into the water to prevent the occurrence of diseases and sundry fungi.
5. Kill pests in time: some pests such as flies, sciarid flies and mites are easy to happen when the temperature rises, DDVP is an ideal drug to kill them. Malathion, Diazinon and Diflubenzuron could be used as well. But they can’t be used during the appearing period of buds.