How to grow mushrooms on wood log with mushroom plugs

shiitake growing on wood logs

1-Find your wood logs for the right mushroom species. 

Get a 4 feet wood log. Hardwood will usually produce more mushrooms than soft wood.
Soak the log in water for 24-48h. This is recommanded but optional. 

2-Drilling your wood logs

Make holes in a quincunx pattern 36mm X 9mm to fit plugs in. PLugs are 35mm X 8mm so you can get 10mm drill bit to fit the mushroom plugs in. You can also stuff the hole with extra mycelium in the plugs bag. 

drilling holes for mycelium spaw plugs dowel
Mushroom mycelium spawn plug in log wood

3-Waxing your hole to prevent mycelium to dry

Insert the spawn plugs and add wax to seal the holes. Place in a shady spot at a temperature of 15 C-30 C and keep the log wet/humid at all times (especially during the dry season)

4-Harvesting your gourmet mushrooms

Mycelium will colonise the logs and mushrooms will grow within a year or two. You will get two crop per year, one at spring and one at fall.

Brown mushroom oysters on wood logs
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