Seal Plugs with Wax and Placement Advice

great we're up here at the house get the chainsaw out of the back of the Kubota here and we'll drop your tailgate and the next step we're gonna do is we're gonna instill wax into each one of these little holes we'll get you some close-ups but before we do that I want to talk about placement of your logs because it's getting a little bit dark on us so you want to place your logs in a place that you go by frequently you want it to be a shady spot somewhere either on the edge of the woods or in the woods that stays fairly cool and moist okay so if you've got a place on your property that you're thinking about that's a good idea or you can put them right beside your garden put a big old tub of water down there and that way you can soak your logs as needed we won't need to soak these logs until it's time for harvest so at about a year to a year and a half probably sometime in the spring a year and a half from now we'll soak these logs overnight and water down in the creek and then we'll pull them out in two days later they'll be loaded with shiitakes they will continue to produce shitake mushrooms for years and if you stack these inoculated logs on top of other logs that are not inoculated in a moist area they will spread and you'll have shiitakes forever pretty cool let's get the wax this is specifically designed for wax our waxes in there and basically it's like a double boiler system so I have warm water or almost nearly boiling water and I have an el cheapo paint brush and we'll just take that paint brush and we'll dab it into the wax and we'll dab it on to our inoculated logs okay so a little dab will do you you want to make sure we've got cardboard laid out right here because I know this gets messy we just dab it right on there and you can see that wax to dry you can err on the side of putting a whole lot of wax on there if you want to you can see I'll get you a little close-up here just like that just dab it on there you can use a sponge type brush but just go get a cheapy brush from the dollar store or whatever and you just dab it on there and that's it all the way down here's a close-up of what we're doing just dab it on there very very easy very simple and just slide it out dab a little more you just want to fill in that crevice right there so that you don't get any contamination and you don't lose your spores so folks I got some work to do but I hope you enjoyed learning how to inoculate logs to grow your own shitake mushrooms if you buy the kit the…