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Inoculating Wooden Dowels
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For some reason I'm having a helluva time finding methods for inoculating your own dowels. I've found plenty of posts/references on how to use them, just none on how to actually make them. If anyone would be kind enough to share their methods, or provide links to what others have done it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm in the process of growing Oyster's indoors, but I would love to try an outdoor grow as well.(I have plenty of suitable area's outdoors.) I have researched what types of logs/wood are best and what are not. Just out of curiousity though, has anyone gone out on a limb and tried spawning to less commonly used woods, and if so what were your experiences?


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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: TS10]
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I soak the dowels for 48 hours to hydrate them, then simply load into quart jars 1/2 full and PC for 90 minutes. When cool, inoculate with grain spawn and shake well. When colonized, bang against a tire to break them up and separate the dowels, then drive into your pre-drilled holes. Works like a charm.
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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: TS10]
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I cook them for 1 hour(=until they sink) to hydrate them, the rest I do the same as Rodger.


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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: Anno]
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Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated! I was wondering, is it also possible to inoculate the dowels in LC?(hydration > sterilization > soak in LC?) I have no problems making quart jars of LC and it would seem to bypass grain spawn altogether. Hmm.......what is it I'm missing? lol


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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: TS10]
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you can save a lot of money by spawning your own dowels. ebay a packet of colonised dowels, add one to a small jar of small-grain (like wbs or millet), and shake often to keep it loose. now pour this grain over a fresh bunch of newly hydrated dowels - badabing, 10x multiplied.

dowels could be cheaper, i'd love to hear a cheap source of generic blank dowels for the UK. anyone?


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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: shirley knott]
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http://stores.ebay.it/Crafty-Woodworks

i hope this can help, they have different kinds of dowels to a cheap price..but they're cheap for people from USA (spedition costs for italy are around 29 USD)

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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: RogerRabbit]
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can i inoculate sawdust and add sawdust to half jars to inoculate the plugs?


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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: Tunnel_Bunny]
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you can use either grain or sawdust to inoculate plugs

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Re: Inoculating Wooden Dowels [Re: t3chnobily]
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