How to grow a tea mushroom

This representative of the kingdom of mushrooms can be grow from scratch. This is not difficult, the main thing is to look after it and not to allow the appearance of mold. To begin cultivation of a tea mushroom it is possible two ways: from hips and sweet tea.

Let's start with the first one. Take the thermos, rinse it with boiling water. Fill it with washed hips (7-10 pieces per half-liter of water). Hermetically close the thermos, put in a warm place and forget about it for 2 months. Now about cooking mushrooms second way. Take a three-liter jar, shave itboiling water and pour into it a strong sweet tea. The very solution of tea needs half a liter. Cover the jar with gauze, put it in a warm place and wait about two months.

Preparation of the most drink from a tea mushroom. So, we get a tea mushroom (on a dogrose orbrewing) from his shelter, washed with warm water, put in another jar and poured a warm tea solution: 2 teaspoons of tea leaves per 1 liter of water, well, sugar to taste. Cover the gauze with a gauze and store it again in a warm place. In summer, the drink will be ready in 3-4 days, in the winter you can settle for a seagull in a week.

Do not forget that the tea mushroom is a living organism that requires care. In any case, the fungus must float onsurface, you just have to wait. If this did not happen, then, perhaps, the fungus became ill or you made it wrong. As you use, do not forget to replenish the tea supply, as the mushroom should be in abundant amounts of liquid. If you have left itching the tea leaves, you need to strain it, dilute it with boiled water and pour it into the jar with the mushroom. Make sure that the tea leaves do not enter the container with the fungus. You can add sugar to the mushroom drink to taste.

To grow a tea mushroom, a single infusion of tea leaves is not enough. It should be washed every 2-3 weeks, can be a little less often. Remove the mushroom from the jar and rinse it with boiled warm water. Infusion in which it was, strain through cheesecloth or cotton filter and pour back into a clean jar. Put naturally washed mushroom in the tea solution. If the mushroom is not washed, it can quickly deteriorate: it will turn brown and start to separate. The infusion in which such a mushroom is located is no longer usable, because harmful substances enter it. Remember that infusion of tea fungus should be transparent.

Now let's talk about storing the tea mushroom. It is better to put it in a dark place, wherethe air temperature does not exceed +25 Celsius, as the fungus does not tolerate direct sunlight and cold. The most unacceptable temperature is +17 degrees, because the fungus ceases to grow actively and the blue-green alga can grow on it. Tip: Start two cans for the tea mushroom. In one he will live and develop, and in the second you can drain the drink in 2-4 days in summer and in 5-6 days in winter, and then put this jar in the refrigerator for preservation. What is it for? If the fungus is in solution, then a brown film will start to form, which does not bode well.

The instruction on how to grow a tea mushroom includes another item on cultivating this resident banks. The optimum and useful thickness is 4 cm. It is desirable to pinch off new layers and put them in new cans, hand out to neighbors, give to friends. The lower layers are the strongest, so new growths should be torn off. And more: in the infusion, you can add medicinal herbs, such as nettles, blackberry leaves, plantain, white thorns, birch leaves, strawberries, and even cook the tea leaves from green tea. Please note that </ b>infusion will not be useful if the tea contains any essential oils</ b>.