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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

Doreen,
    I used to grow Shiitakes.  I even had a logging grapple and hoist to pick 
up the heavy logs to dunk them into a tank of water.  I used plugs and 
innoculant.  Both worked well but I preferred the plugs.  When using plugs, 
you want to be sure the hole isn't bigger than a 32nd of an inch bigger than 
the plug.
    As for which kind of logs to use, use whatever has the most sapwood 
(mushrooms colonize the sapwood).  Oak has 1/2" to 3/4" of sapwood whereas 
maple has up to 3".  Use maple if possible.  Ironwood (Hop Hornbeam) works 
well too.
    Mushroom growing is not for the impatient.  It takes up to a year for the 
mycelia to saturate the sapwood in Oak, longer with maple, before you get 
fruit.  AND you need to keep your logs moist for all of that time, because, 
if the logs dry out, you lose your crop.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)
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I can't keep my kids names straight, but I remember this distinction
when Joseph Postman shared it over 10 years ago:
In the the Pyrus collection (and the online catalog) at
NCGR-Corvallis, 'Ayer' and 'Ayers' are separate pears.  What does this
say about my brain and fruit?

Richard Moyer
SW VA
Eating dried pears with breakfast