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Shiitake Mushroom (100 dowels)

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Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99
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Current price $20.99
$20.99 - $20.99
Current price $20.99
SKU P302C

Lentinus edodes

Shiitake mushrooms are delicious, with a rich flavor and firm texture. They are also very nutritious, containing lots of B vitamins and other substances that appear to lower cholesterol and boost the immune system. While they are an expensive delicacy, relatively new to the Western world, people in China and Japan have been enjoying Shiitakes for thousands of years. Package of 100 wooden dowel plugs; we recommend using a 5/16" drill bit set at 1" depth to drill holes for the dowels. 

Size Options: Dowels

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  • Do you need any special equipment to grow mushroom dowels? Or are they "planted" outside?

    Typically these dowels will be gently hammered into a fresh cut log that has been pre-drilled. They can be spread in a sterlie growth medium outdoors as well.

  • Is it too late to plant SHIITAKE dowels now. Will we be able to harvest them this year?

    There is no real season for innoculating logs with dowels, but regardless of when you do it they won't fruit (make mushrooms) in the same year.

  • Will a “downed tree” work well to inoculate,or does the wood need to be fresh cut?

    Downed trees will already have been innoculated with local strains of mycelium, which will compete with your Shiitake dowels. I could work, but it could also fail. The benefit of fresh cut logs is that there is no competition with the Shiitake for innoculation.

  • When planted in a log or bed, what is the sunlight /shade requirements?

    No sunlight is required and, as they need to stay wet, a shaded place under a tree is preferable.

  • How many mushrooms will one dowel grow?

    A great question! In perfect conditions, over time, a dowel would spread through the whole of the substrate and produce as many as possible. In the real world however competition for food is intense in mushroom-land, so you use several dowels to make sure the Shiitake strain remains the dominant one in the wood.

  • Does the type of wood matter? And are these perennials or annuals?

    Shiitake requires a wood substrate (not Cedar), preferably pine or oak, but will also grow in alder. If cultivated in bags or a bed, steralized sawdust or woodchips work too.

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Dowels don’t work

I fear I expected too much, it’s been about a year and a half now and still no mushrooms from the dowels I’ve purchased from here, I got the shiitakes and oysters and no mushrooms from either, better off buying from your local mushroom farmer instead, we did buy here cause we wanted to do business with a local in the region area however everything we purchased either died before fall even with following directions or was completely stunned from growing.

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