Description
Growing mushrooms on logs offers a sustainable and rewarding way to cultivate mushrooms over the long term. This method utilizes hardwood logs inoculated with plug spawn—small wooden dowels infused with mushroom mycelium—that gradually colonize the log. Once fully colonized, the log becomes a natural substrate for the mushrooms, producing reliable harvests year after year. This approach mimics the fungi’s natural growth environment, requiring minimal maintenance while providing consistent yields and a connection to nature’s cycles.
Our Outdoor Log Starter Kits include everything you need to get started – just source your own freshly cut logs using the species guide for each mushroom we offer and you’re ready to go.
While you won’t find a pearl in this oyster, you will find one of the easiest to grow and best tasting cultivated mushrooms around! Our Blue Oyster is a fast colonizing, fast fruiting varietal that produces big clusters of meaty mushrooms with a savory flavor and delightful texture when cooked. Fruits present as clusters of scalloped caps that have a lovely dark blue hue which fades to a blue grey as they mature.
For newer outdoor mushroom cultivators looking to dip their toe into log growing, Blue Oyster is a great place to hone your techniques thanks to a quicker turnaround (as early as 6 months) than some other species. This strain is also temperature tolerant and can thrive in temperate and slightly warmer conditions.
Includes colonized spawn and accessories
- Inoculate 3-5 logs up to 3 ft Long & 4” in Diameter
- Grow Lion's Mane, Blue Oyster, and Shiitake mushrooms Outdoors
- Sustainable cultivation method
- Harvest over 2-4 years
Each Kit Contains:
- 100 Colonized Plug Spawn
- 5/16” Drill Bit
- Wax Dauber
- Soy Wax for Sealing
- Plug Spawn Lasts up to 6 Months in Fridge