force fruiting method
Force fruiting can encourage your logs to fruit more often. Simply soak them in water for 12 hours!
Force fruiting can be used to trigger fruiting in your mushroom logs. Rather than letting them fruiting in their natural rhythm you can encourage them to fruit every couple months. Force fruiting is a great option for those who keep their logs indoors. If your log is not exposed to the seasonal changes in temperature this may effect when it chooses to fruit. Don’t force fruit your log until it has already fruited once before.
To force fruit you will submerge you log in ice water for 12 hours (no more than 24 hours). After soaking, remove your log and return it to its shady home. You may want to lean it upright to give room for potential fruiting. In 3-5 days you should see pinning, meaning white buds will begin to pop through the bark. Mushrooms should be ready to fruit in 12 days.
After your log fruits, and you’ve harvested your mushrooms, resume the regular care regimen of water and shade, and allow the log to ‘rest’ for two months while the mycelia cells recover, grow, then prepare to fruit again. You can fruit the log earlier, but force fruiting too soon or too often weakens the log. Resting longer may produce larger crops.
Force fruiting mimics conditions in the spring or fall rainy season, when mushrooms will naturally fruit.