How to Grow Shittake Mushrooms at home! #sustainbility #mushroom #mushroomfarming

All right, guys. This is a bag of shiakei mushroom plugs. And that's what they look like right there. We're getting ready to put them in these logs. And each one of these logs is about 4t long. Four to 5 ft long. And this is a shiakei mushroom plug. So, we're going to take our drill. We're going to mark the depth that we need on our drill bit with a piece of tape. Just that simple. And then we're going to drill into our logs just like that. Probably about every six or seven inches. and rotate the log and drill again. Rotate the log. Keep drilling. And then we'll take our shiakei mushroom plugs. We'll stick them in their little holes here. There's instructions that come with this kit and I'll put a link to it in the video description and a link on the screen for you guys. Really interesting. So, you just put them in those little plugs. And this is a maple log. The other logs are white oak. I found that the white oak performs a little bit better. We'll just tap them in with a rubber hammer. Then after we tap them in, we'll basically do every log that we have and we'll take a little bit of beeswax or you can use paraffin wax or whatever and we're just going to seal off each one of those spots where we put our mushroom plugs. And don't seal the end of the log. Seal off the spot where we put the plug. You can see it right here. I found that they perform a little bit better if you lay them down on the ground versus sitting them up like this. But they will perform well as they're sitting upright, too.