"The best woods are even better when they have been cut the same day (this allows you to "seed" the wood with your choice of fungus - shitake mushrooms perhaps?

"The best woods are even better when they have been cut the same day (this allows you to "seed" the wood with your choice of fungus - shitake mushrooms perhaps?)." This is wrong, you need to wait a month before inoculating a fresh log. Less time than that and it will still have too many antifungal chemicals present. But more than a few months and it'll be colonized by something else.