Dowel (Plug) Spawn

$8.00

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Dowel (Plug) Spawn for wood decomposing mushrooms.

Dowel spawn is a wood dowel that has the mushroom mycelium growing inside it. It is used to inoculate dead tree stumps or logs. After drilling a hole in a log and tapping a dowel into it, the mushroom mycelium will grow from the dowel into the surrounding wood. Dowels are 5/16" diameter X 1" long. Most of the mushroom varieties grow best on newly cut hardwood or semi-hardwoods. A list of commonly used wood is included. (Most cannot be grown on conifers, including Pine, Fir, Cypress, Juniper, Cedar, Redwood and Eucalyptus.) Dowels can be refrigerated for many weeks until used. Use 1-2 dowels per foot of log to be inoculated for best success. Inoculate only one type of mushroom on each log. Instructions on how to use them come with each packet.

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Variety Pack $31.00 (includes shipping) - contains 50 dowels - 10 dowels of each of the following five mushroom varieties are in each pack: 10 Oyster, 10 Shiitake, 10 Maitake, 10 Hericium, 10 Reishi. (USA 48 states only.)

Individual Packs $8.00 ea. (includes shipping) - contain 10 dowels all of one mushroom variety. (USA 48 states only)

Agaricus Spawn:
Occasionally we get requests for agaricus mushroom spawn. We do not sell grain spawn for agaricus mushrooms. What can be used as spawn to inoculate pastured compost is to use the compost in a new, not started kit. The kit contains clean pastured compost with mushroom mycelium growing in it. The compost and mycelium mixture can be mixed into fresh pastured mushroom compost and it will in effect act as spawn. (Note: The peat moss casing material is not pasteurized and should not be used in the spawning process. Casing is only added when the mycelium has grown through all the compost.)