100 Chicken of the Woods Mushroom Plugs

This is a fresh bag of 100 pieces of Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus), wooden dowel Mushroom Plug spawn, fully colonized and ready for inoculating.  Large bright orange fruit bodies have a texture reminiscent of chicken. Great in soups and stir-fry.  Fruits all season from late spring into late fall.  Prefers large-diameter oak logs.

These plugs are from a large planned project that will not take place this year due to the current unfortunate circumstances in our country.  I just received the plugs today (04.10.20) and they are fresh.  The plugs will remain refrigerated until they are gone.  My plugs were purchased from FEDCO and FEDCO sourced their plugs from Northspore.  Northspore is a leader in the mushroom industry and a trusted source for mushroom mycelium.  Inoculating a log with wooden dowel mushroom plug spawn is very easy.  There are tons of videos available online but the pamphlet from Northspore in the pics above should be fine.  

After putting this listing together I had the chance to innoculate a few log's worth of plugs.  It wasn't the full project as we had hoped but at least we got to start some.  We searched for a healthy red oak that needed to be culled and cut into 3' sections.  The tree was about 7" in diameter.  I drilled 5/16" holes about an inch deep every 4" or so, in a diamond pattern as suggested, and used blue masking tape on the bit as a depth guide.  My two boys drove the plugs in and countersunk a tiny bit with a blunt metal rod.  My wife melted a block of beeswax in a double boiler and I used an inexpensive big-box paintbrush to wax over each plug and the ends of the logs.  I also waxed over any parts of the log where the bark had come off or a branch was cut flush.  We finished with 4 logs' worth and placed them on an oak pallet under a stand of very tall red pines.  It's usually a bit shady and damp under the pines.  We always come across some type of mushroom growing under the canopy so it's probably a pretty good spot.  It was raining when we put the logs out and did not have to water them.