Organic Shiitake Mushroom Plug Spawn

First time with North Spore…affordable to experiment with. I ordered plugs of lion & shiitake, easily drilled, daubed wax sealed, piled in shady moist woods myself. LOVED the prompt online support, and appreciated DIY booklet including optimal times to harvest logs. I'm experimenting with 8” x 4” diamond pattern ( so that’s DOUBLING the recommended spacing of 4” apart, 2” between rows). My Goals =1. avoid competing mushroom crowding. 2. inoculate more logs to try some in beech, oak, and maple. -Kristen in NH

Shiitake mushrooms are great. I love them.

These plugs, work wonders mushrooms I have

I've had good success with these plugs. I've inoculated sweet gum logs multiple times and they fruit fairly consistently after deep rains in spring and fall in Upstate South Carolina.

Thank you guys! I am excited to do these ones again!

I was very impressed with these!

My friend inoculated six sugar maple logs for me using your product. In less than two years (earlier than promised) I had delicious shiitake shrooms.

These mushrooms are very good if I was you, I’d buy them and try

Instructions were easy to understand and follow. Plugs went in easily. Now we’re just waiting for spring!

found a Red Oak with limbs perfect size cut recommend number piece of cake !

Logs are producing great several years of mushrooms ahead

Next definitely getting the tool and ditching the plugs. They take forever and break easily.

Happy with the product though.

Very good

Former experience has been seven years of fresh shiitake mushroom using plug spawn. It was time to retire my former shiitake logs, production had decreased. I will shred the old logs and use them as mulching. Now I look forward to several more years of fresh mushroom from the logs inoculated with Shiitake plug spawn 1 month ago. Great product, decent price, easy to follow instructions. I only recommend North Spore mushroom spawn products.

This was my son and myself's second round of logs. He is 5yr I drill the holes and he taps in the plugs..our first pile is still producing 3yrs later. did second pile last yr. grew several other mushrooms. all quality spawn..thanks north spore great work

Plugs looked well colonized. Five hundred plugs in place, now for the long wait for logs to colonize.

Looks great can’t wait to use.

We haven’t used the shiitake gift packs yet. These were Christmas gifts and the weather is very cold now. But soon.

We are thrilled to try these mushrooms! They were so easy to place in our oak logs that we ordered 3 more packets! One for our daughter and 2 more for our farm! Check in to Dark Wolf Farm next year for results!!!

Ordered 200 shitaki plugs and arrived ahead of time and well packaged. It was a great project collecting logs, drilling and putting in the plugs. I used a glue gun instead of hot wax and hope it will work. The logs are now stacked outside and the glue gun spots over the plugs are holding up well. Now I have to patiently wait the 6-12 months to hopefully get results. I learned that checking every other day is excessive and not productive.
I have ordered and grown in bins your oyster mushrooms earlier this year and got a lot of mushrooms. I am trying to move up in my mushroom growing. It has all been a great experience. I would give the current experience 5 stars thus far but I am waiting to see what I can grow. Thanks, Carl

This was my 2nd kit. The drill bit and wax applicator made my shiitake inoculation very simple and fast. I’m excited to see what we get next spring. I’m already thinking about what to get next!

It was straightforward to inoculate the plugs in oak logs. I cannot wait to have shiitake growing in the logs next spring (I tried the shiitake sawdust last year and successfully had shiitake on oak logs in May of this year).

I just harvested my first flush off of my Shitake log. So exciting!

I haven’t cut my wood for these yet, but the plugs look great. Use the plug calculator so you have an idea how many you need. Go with sawdust for larger projects. Do yourself a favor and get the grinder attachment either here, or elsewhere (for cheaper)

no recommendation for the product

Plug spawn arrived in great shape and covered in mycelium. The family and I had a great day inoculating several recently downed Maple trees from a storm. Now we wait!

Great spawn wish there was more options for ordering beside 100 or 500

Using one bag of plug spawn I've had 2 flushes (sometime 3!) of mushrooms consistently for the past 4 years. The process of plugging the logs was easy, using a drill attachment on an angle grinder worked much better then using just a drill.

So far so good. Incubation working well. Getting ready to grow them outside!!

I purchased several hundred of these plugs and inoculated some oak logs. Colonization is happening faster than expected. Excellent product. I highly reccomend.