North Spore Organic Shiitake (100 ct) Mushroom Plugs for Logs | Premium Quality Mushroom Plug Spawn | Handmade in Maine, USA | Grow Gourmet Mushrooms Outdoors on Logs | Lentinula edodes

Received our order in March 2024 and placed our spawn plugs (shiitake, Italian oyster, snow, oyster, and lions mane) into the logs the following month. The order came with an instruction booklet which explained the best time of year to “plant” and what type of trees work best for each mushroom. Unfortunately, we had misidentified the tree we harvested for our logs and it was the one tree not listed. I didn’t want to cut down another tree so we used the serviceberry and hoped for the best. It is now early November 2024 and our shiitakes are blooming and we’ve even seen a few oyster mushrooms too. No growth on the lions mane but that may be due to us using a serviceberry for our logs. Needless to say, I am very happy with this purchase and I will definitely be using North Spore again.

It was exactly as advertised. Lots of mycelium growing on the wooden dowels. Easy to hammer into drilled logs.

Can't grow anything, maybe need a dedicated person

Just got mine in the mail, I’ll be back to give an update

had to keep bags in fridge a couple month longer then expected.. still the dowels inoculated the logs well and looks like its about to start fruiting. Second time i have ordered these and will do so again. It easily pays for itself in fresh shitakes. Note if you have too many mushrooms slice thin and put in a dehydrator for like 12 hours to make them shelf stable in a jar for years. If you want to force the innoculated logs to fruit then soak them in water a couple days and they will assuming its not freezing out.

Molded and out of date

The media could not be loaded. Lots of down trees over the fall from Hurricane Helene here in North Carolina. An idea came to make use of those fallen and dead trees, mushrooms! First time grower, probably making lots of mistakes and making do, but anxious to learn. Here goes!

I have planted it for half a year but it still hasn't grown.