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.

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

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.

Terrible product- followed the instructions to the letter, then waited, and waited, and waited...Never did produce any mushrooms. In fact, there was no indication that any of the plugs were even viable. Huge waste of time and money.

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.

Great service, although this is my first try at producing Shitake Mushrooms and it will be at least 1 year before I know if it took, the plugs were delivered as described with very detailed instructions on the procedure of starting the process. I am excited to see what happens from here on out, because I followed the instructions to the letter!

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!