2 of 2 shiitake spawn
Uli Winslow is always on the hunt for white oak wood. You use fresh cut oak in the spring and drill holes, and put mycelium into it, it’s a sawdust spawn, Uli said.
Uli’s talking about shiitake spawn small sawdust plugs inoculated with the mycelium or reproductive vegetation that grows shiitake mushrooms. Shiitakes are native to southeast Asia, where they’re usually found on decaying deciduous trees.
Uli says it pretty much translates to oak mushroom.
Ancient records date the earliest recorded shiitake cultivation to around 1200 AD during the Song Dynasty in China. Historically growers cut down hardwood trees near known wild shiitake stands and the fungi colonized these freshly cut trees. Shiitake mushroom cultivation got popular in the United States in the 1980s, and the basic method is still pretty much the same. After Uli drills holes in the logs about 50 to 100 for each roughly 2-3 foot log and fills these holes wi
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