>>1925128the typical way would be to take a piece of cap and culture it on an agar plate (inside a still air box - sterility is very important). then use the plate to culture plug spawn, and then inoculate the log.
the point of that is to guarantee successful inoculation - the more there is of the mushroom spawn, the easier it is to outcompete other microbes.
of course you could just buy some plug spawn online as well.
>>1925131mycelium running by paul stamets is a classic. he also wrote "growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms" which is very good, though rather dry.
