Anyone grow mushrooms? Edible not Psychological.

You can’t use old logs, they are going to already be inoculated. Can look it up but I believe they recommend doing it about a week or two after cutting. It also needs to be healthy trees. I used white oak for mine and sealed with wax from beehives. It took about 3 years for me to see results.

[link=(Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms https://a.co/d/0mq6XFc)]Growing Mushrooms book[/link]. There might be better books now, but this is what I used to get started.

I’ve grown shiitakes many times. Instructions should be easy to find online. You need fresh green logs, but don’t inoculate them immediately. They need to age a few weeks after you cut them, there are anti fungals in the enzymes of freshly cut logs.

You can’t do this inside a shed because the logs have to stay hydrated. Logs can produce for years but you can’t let them dry out. Larger logs are best since they won’t dry out as fast, but no so large that you can’t handle them. I prefer about 3 feet long x 8-14 in diameter.

My biggest issue has always been keeping the squirrels away, they eat the mycelium out of the logs which kills the log. Overall it’s pretty easy and can give you a shite ton of fresh shiitakes. Not sure where you are located, but in South Louisiana they will usually only fruit in the fall/winter. You will get a couple of good flushes each winter, potentially for several years.

Make sure you get fresh spawn plugs from a good supplier. You don’t want to wait a year to find out your logs didn’t take. I used Asheville Fungi but I think they went out of business.
Shiitake logs

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