Organic Lion’s Mane Inoculation Dowels

Organic Lion’s Mane Inoculation Dowels: grow Lion’s Mane on logs

In nature, Lion’s Mane grows on hardwood. With our organic dowels you inoculate fresh hardwood logs that produce the white, spiny fruiting bodies for years once colonised.

How to inoculate your logs

1. Use freshly cut hardwood logs (approx. 1 m, 10–25 cm diameter, no older than one month).
2. Drill 25–50 holes (8.5–9 mm) in a diamond pattern and hammer in the dowels.
3. Seal the holes with gypsum or beeswax.
4. Keep the logs in a shady, damp, sheltered spot and let them colonise for 8–24 months, depending on the wood.

Good to know

• Suitable wood: beech, oak and other hardwoods
• Bury colonised logs about ⅓ upright for even moisture.
• Lion’s Mane usually fruits in late summer and autumn.
• 100 dowels are enough for 2–4 logs.

All details, ideal conditions and answers to common questions are in our Lion’s Mane plug spawn guide.

For an illustrated guide, see our guide for mushroom cultivation on logs.

Goes well with

• Lion’s Mane Grow Kit XXL