I've been trying to get spag moss to grow from the compressed bales I buy at one of the box stores for several years now. Never had any luck. But this last bale I opened and use for repotting has spag that seems to be alive after a week of use. Took some out of the pot to see if it is indeed alive. I should know in a few days hopefully. Moved to shady but bright location for now.
i noticed in your old cobra lily videos you kept the water cool and flowing with two solar powered pumps. would it be possible to lower one tray and replace a pump with a syphon?
@@Karen-mb4ko i use 10% for the hp concentration and i use a 1:1 ration when i mix it with water, you can use it directly in the container but wash it really good after, i reccomend to remove the moss and wash it apart it's less risky
Thanks for your tips on how to grow Sphagnum Moss. I'm gonna have to try your method someday. Looks so nice in the pots as a covering. Plus, I love Sphagnum for Orchids.
i JUST discovered this today! and I am in love with this channel and your website. I can promise I will be ordering from you as I am wanting to start a small Flytrap nursery of my own in Ontario Ottawa. Ty for 1. being close (not in USA) and 2.for selling so many grogeous plants on your site. Also would be wanting to cultivate my own moss, so I will for sure be watching through your videos for this info...or point me in the right direction(?) :) Ill be buying the moss from your site closer to the end of this month :) I cant wait
Live sphagnum is virtually impossible to find in the UK....... but thanks for the nice video. Live moss is the best way to promote good root growth on paphiopedilums...do you agree?? Ed.
Eds Orchids . I have live spagnum moss that grows well in the pond. It grows between a pond plant, that is in a pond basket. The pond water is just as high as the top edge of the basket. It is certainly really spagnum moss, because I put it there a few years ago, to see if it would grow. There is morning sun at that place and most of the time shade. Winter and summer without problems. I live in belgium. Spagnum moss also grows between my sarracaenias in a swamp outside.
I don't know who, or why anyone would think negatively of this content. They must have had a bad day I suppose and felt they needed to take it out on someone. Anyways, I appreciate what you are doing and sharing your processes they are very educational. Any botanist would be pleased. Moss is something that a person can research for a lifetime and more. Mosses do so much for our environment and yet utilized improperly by so many. Such as a soil amendment. I appreciate the fact that you are producing this and doing so in as quick a manner as possible. But as you've pointed out the differences in the final product more than proves how awesome moss is. I am of the belief though that slower is better as you have outside. It's all good though.
Great info! I've always wondered whether dead sphagnum moss gets green due to algae or it's coming to life. I'd love to have a top LSM carpet but the stuff seems impossible to get in live form on international shipments (to Europe).
HI Brad, have loved your channel for many years now. I was wondering what concentration of MaxSea your are using. Is it the same 1/8tsp per gal that you use for your carnivours plants? I have never been able to keep sphagnum alive for more than a year. Does good for about 3-6 months but then slows way down, turns a VERY pale green and starts to decline into nothingness. After watching this video I'm pretty sure it's due to lack of nutrients. I'm am also quite sure that the common advice to NEVER fertilze sphagnum and to use distilled water is just WRONG. Its just slow death as opposed to quick death by overfertilization.
Hello, I am planning on growing my own Spagnum moss. I live in South Florida and plan on keeping the moss outside in a plastic tray. Do you suggest just buying dried spagnum to use as a base. I was hoping to put a layer of small gravel to capture water. Then a layer of screen, then peat moss. I would put the spagnum and some sun dews on top. Am I over complicating it. Should it be just dried spagnum from HomeDepot then the living spagnum in a container which does not drain.
hello - that was kind of my plan too - gravel on the bottom, screen, peat moss, then the sphag on top of that. His first lot looks like only a plastic tray with a thick layer of sphagnum, which darkens in the areas that don't see light. I looked up the cross section of a peat bog and that's what happens in nature, just green spagnum growing on top of progressively darker coloured sphagnum that slow dies and turns to peat. From this video seems like humidity and shade are more important, plus a bit of nutrients (I'm on the Eastern side of Australia... gets very dry heat in summer so will need to set up some kind of humidity dome on it (I'm only growing small amounts) .
I order live sphagnum moss through Amazon from "tin roof". About $15 for a gallon zip lock bag. Good quality moss. I have atray same size as his with holes in the bottom sitting in another tray with pebbles and water. Has a plastic dome with vents on top.
The sphagna in the large trays in the temperate greenhouse and those in the ‘bog’ lots don’t appear to be the same species. They seem to have the different growth forms, which would suggest that they are two different kinds. The temperate tray species has stellate captiula (the top most part of the plant) with prominent hanging branches. The bog pot sphagna have chubby and non stellate spreading upper branches. The bleaching of the spreading branches in the bog pots most likely has to do with a trade off between access to water (to continue photosynthesis) and shielding of the photosynthetic apparatus from excess light. It’s hard to ID the two species from a video, but I’m fairly certain that you have a fast growing hollow species in the trays, and a dense hummock growing species in the pots. They would both grow in different niches in a bog, close together, but with different adaptations for moving and holding water. Neat video. Glad to see how many people are interested in a genus of plant that stores more carbon than any other. Thanks for sharing it.
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Love this. I've been collecting bits of sphagnum from local swamps and bogs to grow a miniature bog, very helpful info!
Finally. i've been wondering as everyone sphagnum moss look beautiful
i now want a green house. great information
I've been trying to get spag moss to grow from the compressed bales I buy at one of the box stores for several years now. Never had any luck. But this last bale I opened and use for repotting has spag that seems to be alive after a week of use. Took some out of the pot to see if it is indeed alive. I should know in a few days hopefully. Moved to shady but bright location for now.
Great!
You are an artist!
What are the uses of cultivating moss?
Thank you for sharing informative videos!
i noticed in your old cobra lily videos you kept the water cool and flowing with two solar powered pumps. would it be possible to lower one tray and replace a pump with a syphon?
I am having trouble with algae growing in my sphagnum containers, do you have any ideas for getting rid of it?
hydrogen peroxyde mixed with water worked for me
maybe try rinsing the moss to carry away nutrients aswell as some of the algae cells, (i havent tried this so its just an idea)
@@alexandredfn Do you use the mixture right in your container of sphagnum moss? And what ratio to you use? Thanks so much!!
@@Karen-mb4ko i use 10% for the hp concentration and i use a 1:1 ration when i mix it with water, you can use it directly in the container but wash it really good after, i reccomend to remove the moss and wash it apart it's less risky
Hard water causes moss to die and algae to grow....use rain water/distilled and it will thrive 👍
Thanks for your tips on how to grow Sphagnum Moss. I'm gonna have to try your method someday. Looks so nice in the pots as a covering. Plus, I love Sphagnum for Orchids.
i JUST discovered this today! and I am in love with this channel and your website. I can promise I will be ordering from you as I am wanting to start a small Flytrap nursery of my own in Ontario Ottawa. Ty for 1. being close (not in USA) and 2.for selling so many grogeous plants on your site. Also would be wanting to cultivate my own moss, so I will for sure be watching through your videos for this info...or point me in the right direction(?) :) Ill be buying the moss from your site closer to the end of this month :) I cant wait
Not sure if I missed it but do you feed the sphagnum moss anything?
He says at about 2:53
Live sphagnum is virtually impossible to find in the UK....... but thanks for the nice video. Live moss is the best way to promote good root growth on paphiopedilums...do you agree??
Ed.
Eds Orchids . I have live spagnum moss that grows well in the pond. It grows between a pond plant, that is in a pond basket. The pond water is just as high as the top edge of the basket. It is certainly really spagnum moss, because I put it there a few years ago, to see if it would grow. There is morning sun at that place and most of the time shade. Winter and summer without problems. I live in belgium. Spagnum moss also grows between my sarracaenias in a swamp outside.
I m trying to grow pit moss in my specimen garden for study..
I don't know who, or why anyone would think negatively of this content. They must have had a bad day I suppose and felt they needed to take it out on someone. Anyways, I appreciate what you are doing and sharing your processes they are very educational. Any botanist would be pleased. Moss is something that a person can research for a lifetime and more. Mosses do so much for our environment and yet utilized improperly by so many. Such as a soil amendment.
I appreciate the fact that you are producing this and doing so in as quick a manner as possible. But as you've pointed out the differences in the final product more than proves how awesome moss is. I am of the belief though that slower is better as you have outside. It's all good though.
Do you have to vent it? Can I grow it in a clear plastic container with the lid on?
Nice spag moss. Do you cut it up to propagate, originally?
Great information and beautiful plants in this video. Many thanks!
+fortheearth Thanks!
Great info! I've always wondered whether dead sphagnum moss gets green due to algae or it's coming to life.
I'd love to have a top LSM carpet but the stuff seems impossible to get in live form on international shipments (to Europe).
Is this the same sphagnum moss you would buy in bales in a store or online?
similar but probably a different species
Yes!!!the video of what i was looking for because i struggle with them
Thank you for sharing your knowledge sir.
How do I buy red sphagnum I live in Ukraine and want to order
HI Brad, have loved your channel for many years now. I was wondering what concentration of MaxSea your are using. Is it the same 1/8tsp per gal that you use for your carnivours plants? I have never been able to keep sphagnum alive for more than a year. Does good for about 3-6 months but then slows way down, turns a VERY pale green and starts to decline into nothingness. After watching this video I'm pretty sure it's due to lack of nutrients. I'm am also quite sure that the common advice to NEVER fertilze sphagnum and to use distilled water is just WRONG. Its just slow death as opposed to quick death by overfertilization.
i also want to know the maxsea dosification
Hello, I am planning on growing my own Spagnum moss. I live in South Florida and plan on keeping the moss outside in a plastic tray. Do you suggest just buying dried spagnum to use as a base. I was hoping to put a layer of small gravel to capture water. Then a layer of screen, then peat moss. I would put the spagnum and some sun dews on top. Am I over complicating it. Should it be just dried spagnum from HomeDepot then the living spagnum in a container which does not drain.
hello - that was kind of my plan too - gravel on the bottom, screen, peat moss, then the sphag on top of that. His first lot looks like only a plastic tray with a thick layer of sphagnum, which darkens in the areas that don't see light. I looked up the cross section of a peat bog and that's what happens in nature, just green spagnum growing on top of progressively darker coloured sphagnum that slow dies and turns to peat. From this video seems like humidity and shade are more important, plus a bit of nutrients (I'm on the Eastern side of Australia... gets very dry heat in summer so will need to set up some kind of humidity dome on it (I'm only growing small amounts) .
I order live sphagnum moss through Amazon from "tin roof". About $15 for a gallon zip lock bag. Good quality moss. I have atray same size as his with holes in the bottom sitting in another tray with pebbles and water. Has a plastic dome with vents on top.
The sphagna in the large trays in the temperate greenhouse and those in the ‘bog’ lots don’t appear to be the same species. They seem to have the different growth forms, which would suggest that they are two different kinds. The temperate tray species has stellate captiula (the top most part of the plant) with prominent hanging branches. The bog pot sphagna have chubby and non stellate spreading upper branches. The bleaching of the spreading branches in the bog pots most likely has to do with a trade off between access to water (to continue photosynthesis) and shielding of the photosynthetic apparatus from excess light. It’s hard to ID the two species from a video, but I’m fairly certain that you have a fast growing hollow species in the trays, and a dense hummock growing species in the pots. They would both grow in different niches in a bog, close together, but with different adaptations for moving and holding water.
Neat video. Glad to see how many people are interested in a genus of plant that stores more carbon than any other. Thanks for sharing it.