Growing Live Sphagnum Moss Faster: Culture Tips to Help it Multiply

hello YouTube welcome back to my channel in today's video we are down on the floor in my temper greenhouse where I am trying a new area for growing my swag no moss so I brought a few trays in here of it and let's been in here over the winter so we're in summer now so it's been in here for six months or so and anyways I just wanted to kind of give an update on how it's doing in here so it's inside my temperate greenhouse sitting on the bottom shelf and so we're right basically on the floor it's very shaded down here due to the sort of makeshift foundation I have along here like the wood stuff it it's bright but it's very shaded any watering from above usually ends up hitting these trays they stay pretty moist although it was a pretty warm afternoon in there a little bit dry but I will say compared to the stuff has grown outside here in British Columbia in the summer we have ultra low humidity for most of the time in the summer time it anyways yeah it's doing so well inside The Temper greenhouse I grow it in my Highland greenhouse as well in pots but it's growing in leaps and bounds out here so I just wanted to go over a few tips and tricks for uh sort of keeping this stuff alive as you can tell these colonies they're not um I harvest from them quite a bit pretty much weekly I can take out of these guys and I can just pull off the tops of the moss like so and underneath will grow back and I can take stuff like this here and yeah it will grow back for me from that spot and I can use this in other places and do other things with it and that sort of thing in the beginning when I was growing moss I did try to keep it very very clean and I think that was a mistake being these trays were outside I get the odd weed in it and I used to be meticulous at pulling out the weeds and stuff but I don't even do that so anymore you can see from being outside I get a little bit of grass in it and that sort of thing but um really overall I just sort of leave it and so in here it does have higher humidity than outside it makes it a whole lot easier to grow if you have higher humidity I'm finding it grows quite dense and even just the old stuff like here where I've taken from in the last few weeks will start to grow back again very easily in the temperate greenhouse so but one of the things I did start doing with it is I did start hitting it up with maxi fertilizer when I thought about it not tons but you know I hit it up once every month or once every couple months when I when I sort of think about it when I have some pre-made and pre-mixed and yeah have it ready to go so I'm just pulling on another tray here and sliding it along I love the look of Spagna moss it looks awesome there's a grassy clump in it but um taking over the grassy clump lots of good moss there and so this greenhouse on the upper like shelves gets hot it's a very sunny greenhouse temperatures in here can be 35 Celsius in the daytime like 90 plus sort of Fahrenheit but down on the bottom it is a little bit cooler but it still does get hot down here but as long as it stays moist we're good I was finding outside when I was growing it I was wearing an indirect Sun which it was probably a mistake but um it we had just dried so fast I had to water all the time and I ended up with burnt tips so in here I don't get burnt tips and I'm actually I'm able to grow it a lot faster than I was so the stuff is easy to grow um once you sort of get the hang of it but I really had trouble with it at first it was like kind of it was hard to grow them the carnivorous plants I was growing at four I was put in my pot and then lose it and I do find when I'm growing in my lowland area of my my bigger greenhouse this it doesn't last it's just too hot and it just has to dry out sort of one time when being hot it doesn't seem to recover but growing Highland where there's extra humidity and cooler temperatures it does good in there I have how you do grow it outside as well and I've grown it outside for years and it does okay outside so as long as you're not trying to grow a lowland you should be okay as for multiplying it you can do it there's so many ways you could um multiply this stuff basically just chop it up and lay it out over some dead smack in the moss and it would start to grow because that's essentially all this is when I harvest some like this I usually just try to pull off the growing tips and I harvest it quite frequently so it's not super thick but when I harvest it like that right there's some nice stuff and I always try to keep the tip sort of oriented upwards I don't like to mix it up I'm just for repotting it I will leave this sort of hole here and that will be green again in in a few weeks or a month and then I kind of leave it like this and then I can just stick that just directly into a pot and that way everything is sticking up if you're trying to grow this in another pot of Spagna moss that's pretty easy because you can just pretty much lay it on top if you're growing it in peat moss it's a little more tedious you almost want to bury it a little bit so the bottom half which is pretty much dead anyways if it doesn't see the light it dies although it's it's dead but it's not it's not sterile or sterilized so it would come back but um I buried a little bit deeper so just the heads are sort of sticking out of like a peat moss bog and lately I don't know if I was just a spores from being around because I have it growing everywhere I've been having to pull it out of some of my Nepenthe pots from little Nepenthes because it's just been overtaking them and if you watched my last video that I did on the temperate sorry the pygmy sundews which are over here it's gonna walk you over here you can check out that video but this stuff here again focusing on it is Magne moss that I literally weed out of here that's growing just from the peat moss itself I don't know if I had a batch of unsterilized peat or what but it seems like for the last year or so even my my pots of peat moss just start growing more swagging the moss so in the winter time this does get little heads on a little capsules of spores and maybe it just multiplies that way it's kind of neat to see but yeah so to recap my biggest mistake was with the moss was keeping it but not enough nutrients a little bits of muck in there is great pine needles sticks stuff like that all breaking down really does help with a little bit of the nutrients in there the maxi really helped being in the greenhouse as a post outside just a texture a little bit of humidity really did help as well I don't think I'd be successful growing this in like sarracenia pots in full Sun unless it was like really really moist but again if you take theum the heads of it and sort of bury them into the peat moss they were to wick the water up and then it works pretty good so I will quickly go out you know I will show you my my bog pots and some of the stuff growing in my greenhouse as well just to give you an idea of what it grows like in other places okay here we are in front of my bog pots which I have redone in the last in a while you can actually currently see just as coincidence down there in the back the dripper is running right now and every night it gets a flood like this and pours out of selected holes but this Moss is always always for this the peat is always really wet so I don't have a sitting in a tray but it does get this nightly watering here so you can see this Magna moss growing in the Sun it's a lot harder to get it rolling and looking nice the heads are very very tight together and I I took it at first and did bear it down a little bit into the moss it looks a little bit Brown because the tannins from the peat come up and actually Brown it a little bit this one I think I don't know if there's a nice Magnum in that one there's another little cluster over here as well so I could very easily do this whole area in in this bag than Peters and the Spagna Moss as well but I redid it again I like I said last year and opened it up again so you see the water pouring in from this one too and this it's not always this wet it's just a coincidence that is you know the water is on right now it will drip out and be the water level with the water table is about four inches down so but it always stays wet like that so outside has a very different look this is in direct sun close up again I find this is the hardest moss to grow is this tough in direct Sun it doesn't multiply very fast and it tastes it stays super tight so Moss outside obviously compared to the temperate greenhouse it freezes solid and that's okay too so let's move on to the green house green house the highly green house so here in the highland green house i really have limited the moss growth because it was taking over all these little guys like you see here so i left in some of the bigger pots like this one here has it still that's my Edward Sienna just becoming quite a good size to it so you can see there and I love the look of it in there but the plant has to be sort of a big enough size for it so in this greenhouse it's pretty easy care as well here's a nice little patch of it just sort of growing here this little spots been growing here for years it doesn't multiply nearly as fast as in the ten greenhouse I'm not sure if is just like not the big temperature swings or what but it is growing sort of in all the pots around here so again it gets sprayed with some maxi which I really find is doing a great job with it just gives it that little extra boost of nutrients it needs in here it has nighttime lows of about 10 degrees or 50 Fahrenheit and yeah but I just I find it pretty easy if you go down a shelf I find it grows well in with my new trick you'll areas it was really well down here so these are net pots and so this is a mother scenario where the net pot has swagging them like this one here this is just an not topped up we got the dead speck Sagna moss there and then I just dropped the Y's Magnum on top all the heads oriented up as best I could and yeah hey just grows from here I'm a little pot sir love it looks pretty cool if it doesn't get as much light it kind of gets gangly but overall at first I really struggled with sphagnum Moss it was much harder to grow than the plants but um once you get it down it's not that hard to dull this one I just like ripped apart and harvested a bunch out of last week so it kind of looks messy but anyways I hope you liked this video there is a nice circle area with some smelly though Mawson I hope you liked this video and if you want to see more videos like this make sure you subscribe to my channel as always thanks for watching bye guys

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Length: 12min 57sec (777 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 13 2019