The Amycel Family of Spawn StrainsClick for a printable copy

Phoenixx was designed to give growers an advantage in today’s competitive marketplace by combining speed, productivity and quality.  Phoenixx is our most vigorous strain and is faster in all phases of growing and production. Phoenixx produces mushrooms with excellent quality and density, while maintaining high yields.
 

Amycel XXX was developed to give growers a high yielding strain that could easily be tailored to their specific market needs. XXX is an aggressive and very productive strain, which produces large heavy bodied mushrooms while maintaining competitive yields.
 

Amycel Maxx is a great fresh market strain. Maxx combines the productivity of Amycel 2200 with the sizing and quality of Amycel Delta. Maxx produces mushrooms with smooth round caps and solid dense tissue.
 

Amycel Delta is one of our most consistent premium quality strains, and is the preferred strain and best producer on tray farms. Delta is a moderate pinner and will continue to size without opening allowing for a high percentage of large mushrooms.  While Delta is suited for a variety of growing and compost conditions, for optimal productivity and quality ensure that compost moisture and dry weight are consistent.
 

Amycel 2200 is our most forgiving strain and consistently provides quality and productivity time after time under a variety of growing conditions. Pinsets are typically heavy with the mushrooms sizing uniformly.  Caps are smooth under ideal conditions, but some scaling can occur as with any strain when humidity is low or air flow is excessive.
 

Our newest traditional brown strain, Amycel 2468 was developed as an alternative for Portabella growers looking for faster pinsets and higher yields.  Amycel 2468 is a more vigorous and productive strain while maintaining all of the qualities that have made Amycel the number one choice for Portabella growers in North America. 2468 is the most vigorous traditional brown strain currently available and is perfectly suited for the growers who want to produce a larger percentage of crimini sized mushrooms.  This strain's faster cropping speed allows the grower the luxury of optimizing later breaks for Portabella production.  Cropping is very even, making the product easy to pick.
 

Amycel 2400 is our Premium Old-Fashioned brown strain and the first choice for growers who want to produce a large percentage of Portabellas. Amycel 2400 produces heavy bodied mushrooms with a slightly flat cap and smooth brown skin. The stem is often thick at the base, of medium length and is generally ivory in color. Amycel 2400 is generally sensitive to over watering and requires good long spawn runs for optimal production.