The amount of harvest, however, depends mostly on the quality of the spores. As the practice of artificial cultivation spread, the price of the product fell while timber became much more expensive.
人工栽培一出現，木耳的栽培成為一項很普遍的農家副業，雖然規模多半不很大，但因為種的人多，市場的價格逐漸降低。另一方面，用來種木耳的木材需求量增加，木材供不應求，售價提高，成本也為之提高。