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Fruiting mushrooms indoors was antagonistic to my allergies so we've move our fruiting blocks out to baskets in a shady corner.

Totem style, where logs are sliced into disks and stacked. On the inside of each disk we've drilled holes for inoculated pegs. Each totem is bagged and will sit for a month or so while the mycelium get established.

2 inches of rain in 48 hrs equals 2lbs mushrooms

24 hr temperature swing kicked off some pins

From our first inoculation run during winter 2023

Rain = Mushrooms

Handful of large caps were collected

From our first inoculation run

The wooden dowels are populated with shiitake spawn