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Select and Prepare Hardwood Logs

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How too plant Shiitake Mushroom plugs..this works!

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Select appropriate logs for mushroom cultivation. The presenter emphasizes using hardwood logs like maple or oak, as softwoods like pine are not recommended. The logs shown are freshly cut and appear to be of a manageable size for drilling and handling. Ensure the logs are healthy and free from other fungal growth that could compete with the shiitake mycelium.

Goal: Obtain suitable hardwood logs for inoculation.

Tools and materials

  • Hardwood Logs — The substrate for growing shiitake mushrooms

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right by the gelatin. So, here's the logs we're going to use. I got maple, oak, maple. I want to try a couple different ones, but it doesn't recommend that you use a soft wood like pine, so we use a hardwood like oak. Didn't want to use popppler, but we've got plenty of trees on the farm, so I hacked a couple down here. And, uh, this is fresh green cut yesterday, and we're going to drill some holes. Instructions say 4 in 4 in

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