Shiitake Mushroom Mycelium Plug Spawn - 100 Count - Grow Edible Gourmet & Medicinal Shitake Fungi On Trees & Logs

These Shiitake Plugs arrived healthy and well. They are designed to be plugged into logs, per the directions. Right now, all the logs that I have were already claimed by indigenous fungi. I wanted the type of Shiitake sold by Fungi Perfecti (wide-range) so I ordered the plugs, even though these are not meant to be grown the way that am. I am using sawdust and straw, well-sanitized, with the plugs. It would have been a good idea to perhaps soak and blend up the plugs with the substrate, though just putting some plugs into each jar has been sufficient. There has been 100% growth (every plug is carrying live mycelium) and I have had no contamination. The one thing that I forgot was bran! Perhaps I can give them bran-water later. I'll figure it out. As usual, Shiitake take their time to get moving. They are, though! I have them in plastic containers that will be sacrificed when it is time to open them, so I am able to observe their progress.I'm quite pleased with the quality that I received from Fungi Perfecti. I would buy from them again!

do this ; do that ; don't do this ; don't do that ... EEKS!!! get a drill. not on live tree; not on dead wood. geeze.. you'd think mushrooms would be easy if you lived in the woods where wild mushrooms grown steadily.

This is great starter if you want to try mushroom farming. This was really high quality, active spawn, very much alive and ready to go! These are innoculated dowels, for use with logs, etc.

Plugs had a decent amount of white fuzz when they arrived, looking healthy. Good instructions too.

These did nothing for me. I live at approx. 2700 ft. above sea level. I went into the edge of my woods to put in logs. I purchase a good drill and followed the directions perfectly. It has been approximately a year now and still nothing. However, all kinds of mushrooms have grown around my Shiitake plugs. I gave some to a neighbor to put into some logs and they got nothing!

I have been obsessing about growing mushrooms since winter kicked in. This is my first year. The plugs arrived quickly and with loads of mycelium on them. I will be plugging my log this weekend and am sooo excited. Side Note: A great way to freak someone out is to not tell them what they are and just scream "Look at all these moldy fat-maggots!" Worked like a charm.

It was over 6 and then 9 months of inoculation but the logs and spawn failed. I can't say for others, but it won't work if you live in California and have it outdoors, even with shade. It simply cannot cope with the climate. Indoors only if I could redo.

These are working for us just awesome! We are 2 weeks away from being able to force fruit them. You can see the mushroom network all over our logs! Can't wait to see how many we get!! Fun project and pretty easy!