In om,
KR > typed:

> I started with one of the dowel kits, this is where instead of
buying
> a small innoculated log you instead start with a bag of dowel
plugs
> that have been innoculated with shiitake spawn... then you
drill holes
> in a fresh oak log of your own and pound the plugs in. I
started it
> roughly two years ago this spring. The log is approx. 3 feet
long and
> 8-10 inches in diameter, some kind of red oak from a large tree
that
> blew over in a woody area near my parents' house... the kit
provided
> many more plugs than I needed for a personal log, so I/we (I
enlisted
> the parents) drove a lot of them into the original tree and
left it
> where it lay. I hear that it has been mushrooming somewhat but
> no-one's really monitoring it. This is all taking place in zone
5,
> shiitake definitely proving to be more cold hardy than I had
hoped.


Where did you get the kit? Do you have an online source?

Do you grow these indoors or out?


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Ken Blake
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