Mushroom Growing Experiment

When I was twelve, I worked for an older couple maintaining their property that happended to grow shiitake muchrooms.   Shawn and I would rotate his logs a couple times a year and he would get some amazing fresh mushrooms that were just rediculously delicious. If you think you've eaten fresh wild mushrooms from Giant Eagle,....well, sorry, but you haven't.

So I finally got my act together.and decided to invest in my own stash.  I got a couple buddies to chip in and we bought thousands of plugs from www.fungiperfecti.com.   Oysters, Shiitake, Maiitake, and Reishi's (for tea.) 

Mushroom plug spores

Jeremey and I decided to plug a trial log one evening in his garage.  I cant say we had everything laid out exactly how we needed it, but with a few beers and a garage full of everything you can imagine, we just 'improvised.'

Logs plugged with shroom spores

We needed to melt the wax chips to seal the log.  It was raining like hell, so we opted to find a way to melt the wax in his garage then 'give in' and retreat to the house.

You could say this worked 'quickly'

Then we didnt have a paint brush....so Einstein found us a (clean) cement brush..  We did the whole log in MINUTES!  You cant argue with that efficiency!

 

 

 

 

Before wax

After....maybe a little overkill??



 

Who knows how this log will fruit....hope to get the others done soon and then just let mother nature run its course.