9-10" Shiitake Mushroom Log

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Product Features

• A great gift for gardeners, gourmets and cooks and for young people to learn about nature.
• Grows Shiitake Mushrooms every 2 months for years in room light or garden shade. Fully guaranteed.
• Add the Shiitake Sampler Cookbook, with 51 delicious recipes
• You can make a wonderful change in the world! How? With each and every order, Lost Creek Mushroom Farm makes a contribution to Mushrooms in Ghana, a project to help mushroom farmers in Ghana, West Africa, most of them women, make a living. The project will assist with the introduction of protein-rich shiitake mushrooms to Ghanaian farmers and to the protein-hungry Ghanaian diet; and provide laboratory equipment for oyster and shiitake mushroom production.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000BWSL6W
• Item model number: 10LGNOTRAY
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,150 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Bestsellers in Patio, Lawn & Garden)

Product Description

Product Description

All-natural hardwood logs injected with shiitake spawn produce mushrooms every two months for years. Grow indoors with plants or outside in shade. To produce mushrooms, soak it in non-chlorinated ice water for 24 hours. Harvest in 6-10 days. Logs require regular soaking in nonchlorinated room-temperature water every two weeks. PLEASE NOTE: Logs are ALIVE and can't remain in the pacakging without air, light and oxygen for more than two weeks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You decide if it's a good value, November 24, 2005

By	T. Cormier (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had been looking to buy a mushroom log for several weeks. This log seemed like a good value compared to others I had seen listed on Amazon or other sites.
When the product arrived it seemed to me like it was missing several important things:
1. Instructions on how to care for it or how to get the mushrooms to grow.
2. A tray to soak the log in.

I noticed the Amazon product description didn't mention a soaking tray so I checked the vendor (Lost Creek Mushroom) site for product info. I found a description of the log that says 'The single log is 9-10" long but does not have a tray included. An economical way to start growing your own shiitake mushrooms or give as a gift.'

Bottom line: It is economical but the lack of care instructions is a bit much...I'm not going to ding them over the lack of soaking tray since the product description doesn't explicitly state that it includes a tray (so you'll have to provide that which might cost you money depending on what you have available to use). But why doesn't it include care instructions?

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful and unique gift, plus great customer service!, December 21, 2008

By	Rebecca Stuurwold "creative gift-giver" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had never heard of a mushroom log before until I was flipping through a catalog of expensive items and saw one. My thought was that it would make a great Christmas gift for my Dad, but I thought the price was a bit much, especially considering that shipping would be added on top. Since I was ordering from Amazon anyway I decided to look if mushroom logs were available, and indeed they were, for less than the price in the catalog I had been flipping through. Within a few days of placing the order, I got a very nice email from Sandra at Lost Creek. She wanted to know approximately when I would like the item to arrive, and explained that it's not good for the log to sit for long periods of time. I hadn't even considered that, and had missed the part in the description where that is stated. So I specified a date. I got an email from them when they had shipped the item, and it arrived a day before I had requested. How refreshing to see such a commitment to customer satisfaction.

Upon opening the box I saw that the log was nicely packaged for gift-giving and included detailed instructions, a "quick reference" card, a recipe booklet, and black-and-white pictures of what to expect when the log fruits. (The folks at Lost Creek must have taken to heart the other reviewer's comments back in 2005. I like it when people are willing to learn from their experiences.) No tray is included, but that fact is clearly stated in the description, and besides, it's cheap enough to get a plastic bucket from the supermarket or the hardware store.

Short Version: This is a wonderful and unique gift, nicely packaged and shipped right on time. Plus, the folks who sell it are clearly very focused on customer satisfaction. I couldn't ask for a better and more personal shopping experience.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent customer service, January 10, 2006

By	Calif. Customer (California) - See all my reviews

It may seem odd to give an item a 5 star score when I only received 1 out of the 4 ordered but my experience with the owners of the Lost Creek Mushroom Farm was very satisfactory! I had tried to purchase logs from other sites but all were sold out - this was 2 weeks before Christmas. Found them here and ordered 4. Received 1, e mailed them, had a very fast and HONEST response stating that they truly overlooked the order for 4 and only shipped 1. That in itself was a treat in this day in age - they actually cared and asked that I call them as soon as possible. Because I only needed one right away for out of town guests that were here, I was ok with that. Lost Creek could have shipped the others out overnight and they offered to do so but I told them it was fine since the other receipients were away anyway and 1 was for my very own self! They arrived with complete instructions and a free gift with each along with an apology for missing the original shipping. I did not expect a stand or soaking tub as it was not listed as included. A bucket like most of us have around the house works well. I am happily waiting for mine to produce it's first crop and the friends I gave them to are really excited over the gift. More than anything, I appreciate their honesty about the mistake and being overwhelmed with holiday orders. They were great to do business with and I would recommend them!