Golden Enoki Agar Plate (Flammulina velutipes)

Golden Enoki (Flammulina velutipes) is a gourmet mushroom known for its thin stems, small golden caps, and crisp texture. It’s widely used in Asian cuisine—featured in soups, stir-fries, hot pots, and salads—and continues to grow in popularity among health-conscious consumers due to its mild taste and nutritional value.

This agar plate is cultivated on nutrient-rich media under sterile lab conditions and contains fast-growing, contaminant-free mycelium. It’s ideal for making grain spawn, maintaining a master culture, or testing bottle and bag-based fruiting setups in cooler or shaded Sri Lankan environments.

What You’ll Receive

• 1 × 100 mm sterile agar plate colonised with Flammulina velutipes
• Clearly labelled with strain ID and pour date for batch control
• Sealed for freshness; best used within 4 weeks when stored at 2–5 °C

Recommended Growing Conditions

• Spawn run: 20–24 °C, low light, moderate humidity
• Fruiting: 12–18 °C, 85–90% humidity, high CO₂ (2,000–3,000 ppm) to promote stem elongation, minimal light exposure
• Substrate: Sterilised sawdust or straw pellets, enriched with bran (5–10%), grown in narrow bottles or tall bags for optimal stem shape

Why Grow Golden Enoki?

• High market demand in restaurants, groceries, and export-ready retail packs
• Compact and space-efficient production using bottle or vertical bag systems
• Fruits in cooler months or at high elevations in Sri Lanka
• Longer shelf life and excellent texture retention post-harvest

Best Use Cases

• Expand to grain spawn and inoculate vertical bottle systems or column bags
• Supply fresh or packaged Golden Enoki to supermarkets, hot-pot restaurants, and health food stores
• Preserve culture in master banks or test for heat-tolerant strains
• Use in developing value-added products like marinated or dried enoki packs

This agar plate provides Sri Lankan growers with a clean, vigorous Golden Enoki culture—ideal for specialty markets and farms ready to diversify into gourmet mushroom production with high consumer appeal and export potential.