Look for signs of life for 2022 Growers!

Greetings! These are some signs of life for shiitake log growers who purchased logs this past March 2022.

Your logs may show some signs of a spawn run. If you look on the end of your log, you may see some whitish patches indicating that fungal hyphae are growing throughout the log.

If you do not see these signs it’s OK!

If you do see these signs, feel free to share your pictures on the Google group or with your family and friends.

I have noticed that the white patches are more visible adjacent to the inoculate site closest to the end of the log.

A straight on look at the end of a log that was inoculated in March/April of 2022.

The white patches may appear on the end of the log closest to the inoculate site.

Yes. Both of the obvious white patches on the end of my log match up with inoculate sites that were close to the end of the log.

Here’s a log from 2020 where the mycelium populates most of the log. I have noticed that they get bright white if the shiitake are about to flush. Maybe our recent rains have convinced this log to give some mushrooms.