Shiitake Mushrooms Mushroom Mycelium Plug Spawn - 100 Count Plugs - Grow Edible Gourmet & Medicinal Shitake Fungi On Trees & Logs

They arrived on time and looked the directions were easy to understand

Bought these as a Christmas gift for a couple family members. Product was great. It came with clear directions on what to do. The whole family had a great time plugging up the logs and finding a nice shady spot for them. It was so much fun we would love to do them again for our house but I don’t think we get enough shade. What a great product this was, a perfect gift. Can’t wait for the mushrooms!!

I’ve ordered these in the past with no issue once but the last shipment came like this. They are not returnable. Even when the product arrives damaged? They are covered with green soupy mold! Nasty. The spores are most likely dead. I would love a replacement but I’m scared it will look like this. I will adjust my review if I get a good replacement. Since this is sent by small business I’m not sure how this happened. Mold is a natural enemy of mushroom growing.

Bought the shiitake and lions mane spores n 2021...just had a large oak tree cut down. Nothing first year..then a few shiitakes. For the last two springs, we have great crops of shiitakes. Be patient.

The product arrived with mycelium growing all over it. I put it in the refrigerator and forgot about it for about two months. I found some freshly cut oak trees and cut some 4 foot long by about 5 inch logs weighted two weeks to a month. Drilled my holes, put the plugs in poured the wax over it and forgot to water them to keep them moist. I moved the logs by my faucet almost a year later. Started watering them and mushroom s are popping out. I did everything wrong and I’m now getting mushrooms ! I’m sure if I had put them in the logs when I first got them, watered the logs at least once a week. I have no doubt I’d have a ton of shrooms. No doubt I will be ordering more from here again, they work!!!!

I inoculated 3 silver maple logs today. The advice to use a 5/16 drill bit is perfect. I marked the drill bit with White-Out at a little over one inch so I could just drill down to where the bit was marked. I had put the plugs, still in their unopened plastic bag inside the mailer they came in, in the fridge for about 5 days. These plugs appear well inoculated with shiitake spawn; when taken out of the bag, many of them stuck together with thick clumps of white spawn (and a few grains that the spawn must have been originally grown on) holding them together. I just read that thicker bark on red maple meant higher yields in an online study; I have enough plugs left to inoculate one nice thicker-barked section of log, so that's what I'll do tomorrow. UPDATE, August 2020: well this summer's cool weather gave me one huge shiitake, and two smaller ones; hopefully the photo will upload.

Had to cut down a live tree not use large deadfall. Every plug has to be sealed in a drilled hole with pariffen. I ordered 100 plugs and no. Pariffen. Plugxs have to. Be refrigerated till planted. A lot more work to plant and no guarentee of resultd

Didn't like the instructions being inside the sealed foil pouch with the product. We did not know to refrigerate the product until we opened it a week after receiving it- the plugs had started fruiting already. Measure the wooden dowel plug against the drill bit you're using, add 1/4" to 1/2" to the length and wrap a piece of tape around the bit. Drill down to that tape. We sealed the plugs and holes with gulf wax. Now we wait...…….