As soon as the proposed truffle farm has been spiked, plowed and fenced, you will need to stake out the planting grid. You stake out the planting grid a couple of weeks before planting your truffle bushes. You need to ensure that once the proposed truffle farm is staked out, you wont be needing to plow the land again. Here in Spain the planting grid is 6 meters by 6 meters ( about 18 ft by 18 ft aprox). The 6 x 6 meter planting grid is necessary by law to obtain governments grants for this mission. It additionally permits for the trees to shade the ground in summer but let enough sunlight by within the winter, as soon as they're mature.
You may be planting your bushes in autumn or fall, depending on which side of the Equator you're on. Fall planting of your truffle farm has a number of benefits. Your truffle timber can be coming into hibernation and endure the transplant higher. You'll have less mortality rate of your bushes. Black truffles timber will not be cheap, they price between 5 and seven Euros here in Spain ( September 2010 ). There may be additionally now scientific proof that proves that if you plant your truffle farm in the fall, your truffles timber will endure droughts higher if you do not have irrigation and will produce extra truffles over the life of your black truffle farm.
The holm oak, Downey oak and Hazel nut trees are your selections of truffle bushes for a black truffle farm. The Holm oak is by far is the most effective truffle tree available on the market. It is known to be a hardy and resistant host to the black truffle spore or mycelium. This black truffle tree is king with regards to truffle trees or a minimum of right here in Europe. The holm oak is also very proof against droughts and has numerous totally different strains to suit your geographical location on mother earth. The subsequent truffle tree of alternative is the Downy Oak. The Downey oak prefers a more humid environment to thrive properly. It suffers droughts worse than the holm oak however it's still comparatively resistant to cross contamination of undesirable micro organisms. Final however not least is the Hazel nut tree. The hazel nut tree has virtually been eradicated in Spanish black truffle farms even thou some inoculation nurseries still produce some hazel nut timber annually. Other international locations have discovered the exhausting means that the hazel nut tree isn't a dependable host for the black truffle spore, primarily due to straightforward cross contamination with undesirable lesser high quality truffles. So if someone gives you hazel nut bushes as your host tree for a black truffle farm, look else where in your trees. Many people will argue this fact. One advantage the hazel nut tree has over the holm oak or downey oak is that it would produce some black truffles some years earlier. However most feel, the risk of cross contamination far out weighs the advantage of early produced black truffles, hence the autumn in the usage of hazel nut timber on black truffle farms.
Many people will remark that the holm oak grows of their area of the world, so a black truffle farm is feasible there, as a result of the holm oak is native to their area. Don't be mislead by this reasoning. Simply because the holm oak grows where you live, it doesn't mean a black truffle farm is feasible. Remember that you are a harvesting a crop that grows on the roots of the bushes. So it is the soil condition of your proposed black truffle farm that's the deciding issue in case your black truffle can be successful or not.
You'll want to use some form of tree protector in your freshly planted truffle trees. Truffle tree protectors have a number of benefits. In the province of Huesca, Spain the commonest truffle tree protector is a plastic tube that has a small air chamber between the layers. This small air chamber acts as a insolation chamber. It helps shield the small sapling from extreme heat in the summertime and extreme cold within the winter. This small chamber will also accumulate condensation from the air, in which will run down into the bottom and can supply the truffle tree with a certain quantity of water. It is a massive benefit once you would not have irrigation on your land. Another benefit of the truffle tree protector is that the tree grows with no decrease branches. It leaves the tree branchless the first half meter or so, which makes getting in close to look for truffles, take away weeds or search for trolls a lot simpler. It's a must to be sure that the underside of the tree protector is buried under floor to cease chimney effect. You have to make it possible for hot air in the summer does not enter the underside of the protector and escape from the highest. This sizzling air will burn your truffle tree and can eventual kill it. So, the solution is to rake soil up the perimeters of the truffle tree protector into one thing that looks like a pyramid. The raked up soil also aids within the insolation of the truffle tree. The protectors are removed 3 to four years after planting your black truffle farm, in Spring time.
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