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Cutting the prices
    #3568286 - 01/01/05 02:02 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)


Inoculated, commercial dowels are so expensive. Does it make sense to cut them into 2-3 parts and then stick them into logs?

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Re: Cutting the prices [Re: wideweb]
    #3568322 - 01/01/05 02:32 PM (19 years, 3 months ago)

they're not easy to cut. it makes better sense to sterilise some fresh dowels, spawn them with the bought ones, and treble your numbers.


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Re: Cutting the prices [Re: shirley knott]
    #3615942 - 01/12/05 12:42 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

About dowels, even at home depot you can only buy little packs with not too many dowels for a lot of money. I was wanting to go into massive dowel production this fall but the cost of dowels seemed prohibitive. Does anyone have a good source for bulk dowels?


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Re: Cutting the prices [Re: jmeuser]
    #3617582 - 01/12/05 11:21 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

You can get dowels by the Ks here: http://www.midwestdowel.com/index.php

In my area I pay 2c for each.

Is there a tek for producing dowels directly from dowels?
I want to skip the agar and grain phase.

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Re: Cutting the prices [Re: wideweb]
    #3617680 - 01/12/05 11:47 AM (19 years, 3 months ago)

Not sure, but maybe it is no problem to produce dowels oneself ?
Anybody here that knows how dowels are produced (booknik) ?

> Is there a tek for producing dowels directly from dowels?
> I want to skip the agar and grain phase.
Someone told me that he soaks the sterilized (dry?) dowels in peroxided water and inoculates them in the open air.

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Re: Cutting the prices [Re: ragadinks]
    #3911239 - 03/13/05 12:04 PM (19 years, 1 month ago)

So Shirley, I did what you said, and after 45 days this is what I have:



It worked well for both Pl. pulmonarius and Shiitake. Zero contamination, a thousand dowels.

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Re: Cutting the prices [Re: wideweb]
    #3911504 - 03/13/05 01:05 PM (19 years, 1 month ago)

I use birch dowels from a local mill, about the same price as the link wideweb posted. It works very well to get some of the chunky coir and use it to fill in the gaps around the dowels. A bit of sawdust works good too.


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Re: Cutting the prices [Re: wideweb]
    #3952295 - 03/22/05 02:32 AM (19 years, 30 days ago)

Thanks for the link.

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