Shiitake Mushroom Mycelium Plug Spawn - 100 Count - Grow Edible Gourmet & Medicinal Shitake Fungi On Trees & Logs

These Shiitake Plugs arrived healthy and well. They are designed to be plugged into logs, per the directions. Right now, all the logs that I have were already claimed by indigenous fungi. I wanted the type of Shiitake sold by Fungi Perfecti (wide-range) so I ordered the plugs, even though these are not meant to be grown the way that am. I am using sawdust and straw, well-sanitized, with the plugs. It would have been a good idea to perhaps soak and blend up the plugs with the substrate, though just putting some plugs into each jar has been sufficient. There has been 100% growth (every plug is carrying live mycelium) and I have had no contamination. The one thing that I forgot was bran! Perhaps I can give them bran-water later. I'll figure it out. As usual, Shiitake take their time to get moving. They are, though! I have them in plastic containers that will be sacrificed when it is time to open them, so I am able to observe their progress. I'm quite pleased with the quality that I received from Fungi Perfecti. I would buy from them again!

Very happy with the product and customer service. The plugs came with detailed instructions on how to plug your logs and they have a customer service line where somebody actually picks up the phone and is willing to give you advice. Only thing left is to wait to harvest my shitakes

do this ; do that ; don't do this ; don't do that ... EEKS!!! get a drill. not on live tree; not on dead wood. geeze.. you'd think mushrooms would be easy if you lived in the woods where wild mushrooms grown steadily.

Plugs had a decent amount of white fuzz when they arrived, looking healthy. Good instructions too.

On my smallest oak log (2.5" diameter) these started fruiting @ 6 months!!! It is actually fruiting right out of the dowel/plug. I'm not expecting fruits from the other bigger logs until spring 2016. I am surprised to see these bad reviews because their strain seems to be very rigorous. Shade and water your logs, but most of all BE PATIENT!!!

no result . sadness fill the air after the disappointing result . I thought ... why me ? to spend my hard earned American cash on a no grow project . humiliatingly . depressing . and left unsatisfied

I haven't gotten results yet, but it takes several months. I purchased these and a week after I got the I read an article in Discover magazine about the founder of the company, Fungi Perfecti. A really good article and a really intelligent founder. Sounds like he has a lot of good Ideas and products. Looking forward to purchasing other types of mushroom spore and products.

It was over 6 and then 9 months of inoculation but the logs and spawn failed. I can't say for others, but it won't work if you live in California and have it outdoors, even with shade. It simply cannot cope with the climate. Indoors only if I could redo.