Bulk Hardwood Dowels for Mushroom Plug Spawn

500 plugs
$10.99
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North Spore's Bulk Hardwood Dowels provide a pure, natural foundation for creating custom mushroom plug spawn. These chemical-free, kiln-dried dowels are precisely engineered for reliable mycelial colonization.

Each 1-inch fluted hardwood dowel is untreated beyond kiln drying, ensuring no chemical interference with delicate mycelial growth. Their non-sterilized, un-inoculated state offers complete control for growers to introduce their preferred mushroom cultures.

Ideal for outdoor mushroom log cultivation, these dowels become the vehicle for transforming logs and stumps into productive mushroom habitats. Outdoor growers can craft their own specialized plug spawn to suit specific species and environmental conditions.

As a raw ingredient, these dowels embody North Spore's commitment to providing quality materials for accessible mushroom growing. They support a variety of mushroom growing tools and inoculation methods.

The fluted design assists with optimal substrate integration and moisture retention, facilitating robust mycelial run. This promotes a higher success rate for successful mushroom production.

Utilize these hardwood dowels to begin your custom mushroom plug spawn projects, enabling sustainable and productive outdoor mushroom cultivation.

Frequently Asked Questions

We recommend absolute beginners start with our Spray & Grow Kits, which make growing mushrooms at home super easy.

We want you to have the best possible experience with every North Spore product and guarantee free replacements within 30 days of receipt for any damaged, contaminated, or unusable product.

Absolutely! Mushroom cultivation is a great activity to do with the whole family, whether you'd like to grow indoors or outdoors. If you're new to mushrooms, we recommend starting with a Spray & Grow Kit or a Plant & Grow Kit – both make it easy to grow fresh, organic mushrooms at home.

We are vertically integrated — from culture work all the way to spawn and substrate production — ensuring a quality end product. And our staff mycologists keep up to date on all best practices in our field. Additionally, we have a dedicated QAQC team that tests every batch of grain and substrate before it’s inoculated.

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Whether you’re growing mushrooms at home, in your garden, or at a commercial scale, we offer everything you need to cultivate success. We start with the highest-quality OMRI-listed ingredients, mix them in our state-of-the-art facility, and inoculate them in our custom-built lab, so you can rest easy knowing your product will yield the best results.

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Marc Tederick
Dowels

Sturdy dowels, well made. Excellent product 👍👍

So glad to hear you are having success using our products, Marc!

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Jason Keene
Awesome product

works great

Thanks for the continued support, Jason! Don't hesitate to reach out if you ever need anything!

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William Utech
For Shiitake Spawn

After a simple 24 hour soak my shiitake spawn took nicely to the dowels.
Full colonization of in a unicorn bag took just under a month with grain spawn transfer.

Thanks for sharing, William. We're so glad that everything is working well for you! Please reach out if you ever need anything.

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Emma Reigel
Best thing for logs

Love these so much

Thanks for sharing, Gabriel! We really appreciate your support.

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Travis
Works great

Bought 2500 plugs for making shiitake plugs to use for myself and give as gifts. I had looked at a couple other places, mostly woodworking suppliers and North Spore was around the same price and I needed to pick up the angle grinder adapter anyway. Plugs were shipped and delivered promptly and as expected in 5 ziplock bags with (I assume) 500 plugs in each, which was convenient since I don't have to weigh and separate them out -- just soak overnight and put into filter patch bags to sterilize.