Grow your own shiitake mushrooms right at home indoors or outdoors with a shiitake mushroom log.  The mushroom logs can be kept anywhere a low light house plant would live.  Shiitake mushroom logs are easy to use and maintain.

Shiitake fungus successfully produces mushrooms in springtime or during the rainy seasons.   After purchasing a shiitake mushroom log, you’ll need to “fruit” the log by forcing it into thinking it’s springtime or a rainy season.  You can do this by soaking the log in ice water for 24 hours.  This method is called “shocking.”

Growers recommend that logs shouldn’t be fruited more than every two months.  In the mean time, the log needs periodic “soaking” times and rest times. The log should be soaked every two weeks, anywhere from 12-16 hours, depending on the humidity level of your area.

Use the mushroom grow buddy to help track your shiitake mushroom growing progress.

Here’s a great little story about hunting mushrooms and some recipes:

• Tastes like chicken | Via Negativa – Mushroom season came late this year. We finally got some rain toward the end of August, and now the mushrooms seem to making up for lost time. One of our young visitors last Sunday had never seen a wild mushroom before, …

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