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Had to cut down a Rowan and Sycamore tree. Long story cut down conifers 70 ft high and these where growing in side very spindly and leaning over, to top that the squirells striped off loads of bark and killed the top 20 feet off. But I have plenty of logs I thought about growing Lions mane & Shiitaki mushrooms from plugs, am I wasting my time or is it worth having a go Any advice appreciated Spruce
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Mushroom plugs
"spruce" wrote Had to cut down a Rowan and Sycamore tree. Long story cut down conifers 70 ft high and these where growing in side very spindly and leaning over, to top that the squirells striped off loads of bark and killed the top 20 feet off. But I have plenty of logs I thought about growing Lions mane & Shiitaki mushrooms from plugs, am I wasting my time or is it worth having a go Any advice appreciated Spruce Not the favoured type of logs but should work provided they are freshly cut and are not already infected with a fungus. You need to keep the logs covered in plastic for some months for the fungus to invade the logs and then keep the logs somewhere cool and constantly damp, somewhere you can't keep the moss at bay for example. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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Mushroom plugs
spruce writes
Hi Had to cut down a Rowan and Sycamore tree. Long story cut down conifers 70 ft high and these where growing in side very spindly and leaning over, to top that the squirells striped off loads of bark and killed the top 20 feet off. But I have plenty of logs I thought about growing Lions mane & Shiitaki mushrooms from plugs, am I wasting my time or is it worth having a go Growing these deliberately seems to require a lot of attention to detail - something I'm not good at, so my only attempt met with failure. However, our wood pile (mainly rowan) gave a huge crop of oyster mushrooms this year - don't know whether it was already infected or whether it became infected after felling. -- Kay |
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