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Seal Plugs with Wax

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What happens here

Using a paintbrush, apply melted beeswax or paraffin wax to completely cover and seal each mushroom plug. The wax acts as a protective barrier, preventing other fungi from colonizing the log and retaining moisture for the shiitake mycelium. Crucially, only seal the spots where the plugs were inserted; do not seal the ends of the logs, as the mycelium needs to breathe and exchange gases with the environment through the cut ends.

Goal: Protect the mushroom plugs and promote mycelial colonization by sealing them with wax.

Tools and materials

  • Paintbrush — Applying the melted wax to the plugs
  • Beeswax — Sealing the mushroom plugs
  • Paraffin Wax — Sealing the mushroom plugs

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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

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