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  • From: "adriana" <gutierrez-lagatta AT charter.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Wasabi
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:28:59 -0600

Growing conditions for traditional wasabi cultivation are moderate
temperatures and cool running water.

> Okay, after reading the past few posts on wasabi, you folks really got
my curiosity up now! Just what are the growing conditions required for
wasabi? We have been looking for a new challenge.

For information go to growers AT wasabi.co.nz. These guys will guarantee you a
market price of $50 a pound.

Problems in cultivation - the plants get to where they are just about ready
to harvest and bam! they get hit with a fungus and die... new plants need
to be started via tissue culture/cloning.

The grower in Washington State came up with a way to harvest wasabi once a
month instead of the once a year schedule of the Japanese...no wonder there
were camera-toting "tourists' trying to get at his secrets.

Adriana





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