Spawn is the one input you cannot make on the farm and cannot fully check by eye. Everything you grow starts from its quality, and from how well the straw under it was prepared.
- By the end you can explain what spawn is, how a laboratory makes it, and why it is called seed but is not one.
- By the end you can describe what a good substrate gives the fungus: food, water, air and freedom from competitors.
- By the end you can apply DMR spawn rates by species instead of guessing.
- By the end you can judge spawn and straw with simple farm checks.