You can safely surface water your logs with tap water, but soaking should be done with non-chlorinated water.
If after six months, there's no need to worry because the mycelium should have spread into the wood by then. If this happens in the first 6 months, you will want to protect them by wrapping with screen, hardware cloth, or similar. If you notice missing plugs where the logs were inoculated, it is probably wildlife eating them.Step 5, Enjoy for Years to Come: Continue enjoying your home-grown shiitakes until the log eventually decomposes after a few years of production. Natural Fruiting: Leave your log alone and let it fruit when it wants! Just be sure to check on it during/after wet periods so you don't miss a delicious harvest. Allow the log to rest for at least 2 months before force fruiting again. After soaking, return to its home and water daily until it fruits, typically within a week. Step 4, Force or Don't: At this point, you can take one of two approaches, or a combination of the two:įorce Fruiting: Only after your log has fruited for the first time, you can "force fruit" by soaking your log in cold, non-chlorinated water for 12 hours (never more than 24). If you get more than you can manage with those storage techniques, consider dehydration. You can harvest a few at a time over the course of a week or so, or all at once and store in a paper bag in the fridge. You may harvest the mushrooms at any stage of emergence, but just after the gills are exposed is the ideal time. This will happen after warm, wet periods when temperatures drop to 55-70F. Step 3, Harvest: Depending on specific conditions, you can expect your first flush of mushrooms in 6-12 months. At this point you should not have to water except during extended periods of little to no rainfall. You can even bury one end a couple of inches below the surface. After 6 months, place your log directly on the ground so that it can wick moisture from the soil. Continue this routine for 3-4 months, then you may reduce watering to every other week. Step 2, Water: Thoroughly water your log once a week during periods of no rainfall. They can be leaned against a tree or simply placed on the ground, but in order to reduce chances of contamination, we recommend placing a brick or similar under the log for the first few months. It should never get direct sunlight and ideally it would be able to receive natural rainfall. Step 1, Place: Find a consistently shady and wind-sheltered spot outside to store your log. Exactly how often and how long your log produces mushrooms depends greatly on its size and specific growing conditions. The good news after all that waiting is that, once your log starts fruiting, you can expect 3-5 flushes per year for a few years without much special care. Once this process finishes and conditions are right, you will get your first harvest of mushrooms. This is the period during which the fungal mycelium colonizes the wood in your freshly-inoculated log. It can take 6-12 months (in rare cases even longer) for the "spawn run" to complete. Thank you for purchasing a Shiitake Mushroom Log from Wylde Center! Job Openings, Internships, & Apprenticeships.
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