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Mwenner
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Log Cultivation in Texas
#7853405 - 01/09/08 12:38 PM (16 years, 23 days ago) |
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Anyone with special insight into cultivating on oak logs in South Texas I would appreciate any specialized help.
Im moving out to my 5 acre farm this month and want to experiment with about 100 oak logs and dowel spawn. I think I've got the basics of inoculation and growing down. I am more looking for insight on keeping the logs from drying out completely. Would I be alright just throwing a sprinkler on them once a week for a half day. Should I consider building an enclosure with a greenhouse type roof to keep them hot and humid most of the time?
ANything and Everything will be welcomed and appreciated.
Thanks
M-
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Re: Log Cultivation in Texas [Re: Mwenner]
#7857728 - 01/10/08 04:44 AM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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Hi Mwenner welcome to this forum.
I can't say anything about the south Texas climate but I keep my logs moist by soaking them before inoculation and during incubation covering the stack of logs with wet straw and plastic sheeting with a few ventilation holes. I keep the straw moist with an occasional sprinkle (5 to 6 times a year) but I live in a wet climate.
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Re: Log Cultivation in Texas [Re: Mwenner]
#7864298 - 01/11/08 10:27 AM (16 years, 21 days ago) |
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AS Owl said, you need to keep moist them.
Dunk them 24-48 hours and cover them with something like and old big garment. You MUST watering them if you see them dry, imagine you've to recreate the environment of a wood, where the logs are on the ground.
When fully colonized if the ground is wet you can bury them partially to suck the water in the ground around them, if your ground is dry you shouldn't keep them at ground level.
Try aldo to contact micololo2 or see his thread about the trenches, perhaps they'll work!
The most important thing is to watering them. Be sure to palce them in a shady place.
Fabio
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Jeremy_Davis
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I'm in Southern Florida, so I can offer some suggestions. My main one would be to either make sure the lags are stacked under a canopy of trees to limit light, or create some shading. I lost a batch of logs (not very many, but 20-30) because when the seasons changed on me here and the direction that the sun entered the clearing in the forest, I believe they died from too much sunlight. They started growing a black type mold over the bark after being in the direct sunlight for a week or so before I noticed.
I went over to Mushworld.com and looked over their (totally free) Shiitake Growers' Handbook, which is excellent. It has been a long time since this happened, but I think I remember it saying that you did not want to let the logs have direct sunlight for even a few days...just wanted to share that. Welcome! Light and Love, JD
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