Wooden organic inoculation dowels for growing mushrooms on logs

Organic Reishi Inoculation Dowels

21,01 €

Organic inoculation dowels for Reishi – for its typical glossy, reddish-brown fruiting bodies on hardwood.

✓ EU organic certified
✓ For hardwood logs: 25–50 dowels per 1 m log
✓ Keeps 6–12 months (refrigerated)
✓ Shipping in 5–7 days

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Organic Reishi Inoculation Dowels: grow Reishi on logs

Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) forms striking, lacquer-like glossy fruiting bodies on hardwood. With our organic dowels you inoculate fresh logs, which you bury once they are colonised.

How to inoculate your logs

Use freshly cut hardwood logs (approx. 1 m, 10–25 cm diameter, no older than one month).
Drill 25–50 holes (8.5–9 mm) in a diamond pattern and hammer in the dowels.
Seal the holes with gypsum or beeswax.
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: oak, beech, alder
Bury colonised logs 20–30 cm deep or lay them half-buried.
Reishi likes warmth (above 20 °C) and grows slowly: fruiting bodies take 3–6 months.
Reishi is not a mushroom for the frying pan – it is corky and very bitter.
100 dowels are enough for 2–4 logs.

All details, ideal conditions and answers to common questions are in our Reishi plug spawn guide.

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