Grow your own SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS!! Detailed instructions + cost breakdown
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- How to make shiitake mushroom logs! Full detailed instructions for growing your own shiitake mushrooms! Is growing shiitakes hard? Nope! Is it expensive? Nope!
SHIITAKE LOG CHEAT SHEET
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A handy printable page with all the details of how to make mushroom logs, including which types of wood to use, full materials list, and instructions to accompany this video.
COST OF SHIITAKE LOGS
Assuming you have or can borrow an angle grinder or drill, can source the wood for free, and have some basics like safety goggles, here’s the cost breakdown:
•25 logs, 36-48” long and 3-8” diameter ($0)
•5.5 pound bag of Shiitake Sawdust Spawn ($26)
•Angle Grinder (preferred) or Drill ($0)
•Angle Grinder Bit Adapter if using angle grinder ($36)
•12.5 mm Soft Steel Screw Tip Bit with Stop Collar ($16.50)
•Palm Style Brass Inoculator ($43)
•2.5 pounds of Cheese Wax ($11.50)
•2 Wool Daubers ($1.60)
•Metal can for holding sawdust spawn ($0)
•Something for melting the wax ($0)
•Safety goggles ($0)
•Straw (optional)
(materials sourced from Field & Forest)
TYPES OF WOOD
Best: All species of Oak.
Good: Alder, American & Blue Beach, Hornbeam, Ironwood, Hard Maple, Sweet Gum.
Satisfactory: Basswood, Bitternut Hickory, Butternut, Sulphur Bud, Black & Paper Birch, Black Gum, Tupelo, Cherry, Eucalyptus, Soft Maple (Silver & Red), Sassafras, Sourwood.
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I found a random Danko Shiitake growing in my garden bed.
Was exciting
exactly the right amount of information, thank you
This is a ridiculous amount of hard work! It’s incredible how people come up with such things, 2 years? There has to be a easier way…
To hard to long… hard work.
It’s not liking you’re doing work the entire 2 years…
I would love to try this just not sure how they would do in Florida!😬 Thank you for the great information!
Hi where is the link for the cheat sheet? Please? By the way great video very informative and detailed. Do you have any advice for growing in the UK?
Thanks! It’s on my website, which is linked in the description. I don’t really know anything about growing in the UK, sorry!
Can you leave them up in chimney stacks after initial set up or do they need to be buried each winter? Thank you Crystal… great video
Thanks! Yes- once stacked they can stay there forever!
Great Detailed video
I have one question, Does the mushroom fruit from the same inoculation point from one harvest to another?
The mushrooms come out of the holes you drilled, or in other places there is a significant break in the bark. And they come out of the same holes again and again year after year. Does that answer your question?
@@wholefedhomestead yes, thank you so much. It's very kind of you. God bless .
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Would they do good in zone 3 , Alberta Canada ? I would love to try them! Oh and just found your channel! LOVE IT!
Yes! They should do just fine in zone 3. 👍🏻
Hello. Quick question if I may. Should I cut some slits in a bag to give shiitake block some air to help it brown or just keep them sealed and wait?
I've yet to grow shiitake from a bag, but every other mushroom I have grown from a bag, cutting holes in the side has been a requirement, it gives it a path for the fruit bodies to grow out.
Make sure to fold the excess plastic at the top tight and tape it down to somewhat help guide the growth towards the hole. You can make a single horizontal slice or a couple of Xs on the bag.
Doing it on the sides towards the top is normally most effective with other mushrooms I've grown.
Hope this helps, good luck.
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How would I change this for mushrooms just for a family of 4? Not an army as shown here?
We’re a family of 2 here. 😬
The spawn only comes in a certain size bag… I guess you could throw some of it out and not use it all if you wanted.
I don’t even eat mushrooms, but I think this is cool! I have a mushroom grower about a mile from my house. He grows them and provides them to upscale restaurants and sells them at farmers markets.