I have actually seen some green come back in that "dead and dried" stuff. It wasn't from that brand you show, tho. It was shipped dried and ready to pot with some carnivorous plants I bought from another company. TOTALLY unexpected, but very welcome and excited to see.
Your voice and speaking manner is very soothing. I appreciate that you don't talk too fast, it gives me time to absorb the information you are relaying. Thanks for the helpful video. I have some sphagnum moss that came wrapped around a succulent. It's mostly still green. I'm hoping to save it and grow it if possible!
@@lauragemma2202 wait really? I bought a bag of dried sphagnum moss for my dart frog and put some around my small water feature. If it's in the water or near it with proper lighting will it turn green?if not how can I make it come to life
I get it to grow from any dried and bagged stuff I buy. I used to use it as a mulch on my bonsai (it helps draw the roots towards the surface) I came upon the method by accident when I put a bag around a pot when I went on holidays for 2 weeks. I returned to find a dark green slime all over it (which is the 1st stage of growth) it took a month of keeping it semi covered and spraying it daily to get it fully established, but that patch I grew is still going strong 3 years later!. I have 3 pots in the process now and after 2 weeks.. sure enough I see green patches!
I know this is an old video, but it's a useful one. Brad, the package of moss you held up looks like the same brand I order through the mail. It's imported from New Zealand. I have been told (but I can't swear to it,) that by law sphagnum moss cannot be exported from New Zealand unless it has been irradiated. I don't know if that's true, but it would explain why that brand of moss just does not sprout. On the other hand, I've also bought some dried sphagnum moss locally from Lowes. The brand is Better-Gro Premium Grade Orchid Moss. This sphagnum moss is imported from Chile, but it looks just like the stuff from New Zealand. I bought some 2 or 3 months ago and it's sprouting like mad under the grow lights. Everything with sphagnum is turning nice and green. I guess for anyone trying to sprout their own just keep trying different brands until you find one that sprouts.
I have bought Zoo med dried sphagnum moss . I have wetted it and put it in a microwave for several minutes. Have use it on my carnivorous plants and eventually it starts to grow.....It genuinely starts to grow.....
Also..I never thought a moss no doubt collected in a far north cold and wet climate would do so well indoors in 80f temps all summer and 70's all winter. Amazing really.
I buy my live sphagnum as dried moss at home depot. As soon as I bring it home I soak it in the bag and stick it in my basement fridge (no light) for 3 months. Then I take it out and make a moss slurry out of it and grow it in sterilize tubs until it grows a little. Live sphagnum is a staple here in my garden for propagation (extremely useful for air layering trees)
hii MrHOmo1992 you put moss in fridge ? and they grow ? i use moss the same way as you.. but they are just not reproductive... i don't get more of them.. how to encourage them to reproduce > i am in Germany.. same weather as in uk. thanks appreciate it. andrew
i heard they like acidic water.. i used tap water for weeks.. but nothing encouraging.. hence i tried to add in a bit of cooking acid to make the water a bit acidic... but i don't know how acidic is good for them. any idea ? they are just not growing much..
I bought dried moss from a big box hardware in Australia, wet it and popped into a terrarium, where it sprouted and lives very happily. I guess this stuff was dried naturally and not treated.
I got my dried stuff to grow. I put it on a glass jar with some water and a sprinkling of kelp fertilizer and left it in full sun. Took a month before I saw growth. Lambert is the brand I bought. Quebec company.
I put the moss , same brand as shown in a sealed plastic container after hydrating it with warm water. Attached it to a limb in full sun. It was around February. In six months it’s full of green new growth !!!! I also had dime size holes in each end of the container.
If you use Zoo Meds New Zealand Sphagnum Moss used for reptile habitats. You soak it in water, drain excess water out, place it in a pot and set it in a window. Or somewhere where it can receive direct sunlight It will start to grow again. I have it with my fly traps and is starting to turn a very nice green. Its slow growing took about 3 weeks (give or take) but it is possible to grow Sphagnum moss from dried sphagnum moss.
I also have never had sphagnum moss to spontaneously grow from dead sphagnum moss. However, I regularly have it spontaneously spout out of my sphagnum peat moss. I live in South Carolina and I grow my venus fly traps, sundews, pitcher plants etc... outside year round in raised beds I build with fish liners and I use peat moss and sand as the substrate and by the 2nd year they are always covered with live sphagnum moss.
Hii Brad, i have moss layered on flat tuber ware with lid.. spray with hand water spray.. but they grow so slowly. i am hoping they grow fast.. like weed.. but they are not like growing at all.. the side which is facing window is growing taller.. bright tender green color.. apart from that, they just do not reproduce much .. i thought they were lid closed.. they need air to have food... so i crack the lid a bit.. in door at 26C and dry air.. ..result tips were dried and changed color. i also in another tuber ware layered on crashed charcoal.. just to try out if it work.. previously i layered them on potting soil... but it get sadder... hence changed to charcoal as base. so they will not be soaking on wet substrate. pls advice how to make them grow faster.. how to reproduce them faster. thanks andrew
I love listening to you talk! (That sounds creepy, so let me clarify.) You have a very calm, soothing voice and cadence which makes you seem like you're the nicest person on earth. I used to listen to this one guy on QVC (a home shopping network) in the mornings just because he had this super calm and positive way of talking. So..when I listen to you talk, it has the same effect as the guy on QVC which is very calming and de-stressing. Since yours is a plant channel, it also sort of motivates me to get into my grow room and get stuff done. Also..I don't know if I ever mentioned this, and I don't know if you ever watched Buffy the vampire slayer, but in one episode, they start it out as an homage to masterpiece theatre. When I made one of my book videos, I did an homage to that in my intro and then I saw your video where you had done an homage to it as well, and I just wanted to let you know that I got it. Well done.
Great video, infornative and interesting, thank you. I bought a bale of sphagnum moss last year, it came in a polythene bag and I just leave the bag in the garden and take some out when I need it, seems to work for me. I live in NW England.
Put in a zip lock,add some water and wait about 2 months. It sprouts from spores. I put it near a window..closer in winter. I was surprised since I was trying to root a Huperzia squarrosa cutting that snapped of my bigger plant outdoors. Hadn't even thought about getting live spag.
Wow, your moss looks so nice. I had some live moss but all the new growth was super thin and scraggly. Mine are in a sealed tub kept moist in a window. I assumed the scraggly growth was due to lack of light so I put it outside in the shade and it died. I figured the heat killed it
I've gotten red and green sphagnum from the store bought stuff, only if I water it with distilled, dehumidifier, or rain water (under 100ppm tds). I used Canadian and New Zealand sphagnum, too. Both worked.
How long have you waited for the dead moss to regrow? I've never bought any sphagnum moss from online that is living, or anywhere offline, I've just bought the dead, dried long fibre sphag. The longest I'd wait was about 4-6 months :P I'll eventually get around to making a video about my sphagnum, and how I grow it and resurrect the dead moss. I just sit the dead moss in a pan with no drainage, clean water under 200 ppm tds, and under a t5 bulb, ideally. I've tried other ways, outside, it grew fast but dried up too much and would randomly die. Under more lights the plant grows faster but needs more water. Less light, and the sphagnum turns emerald green and darker, sort of like a spruce in winter even.
Better-Gro Orchid Moss (Chilean sphagnum, probably S. magellanicum) is pretty good at sprouting live sphagnum after a few months. I've got a crapload of it live now (got a lush patch about 4" deep by 8" wide in a food storage container, and a cat litter pan outdoors with some spread over the surface, both planted on a roughly 1" layer of peat and perlite, along with another smaller food storage container started - even got some I'm growing in the water tray of a Drosera binata multifida extrema). Very beautiful, easy moss to grow. I'm hoping to try some of the red S. capillifolium sometime.
3:20 omg how lush and beautiful! I wish people would carpet their lawns in moss instead of grass. ❤ (yes, I know that a few people do, but not many... 😢)
Hi l am very happy l came across your channel l just started buying carnivore plants l am really new to this and fascinated. Wanted to just introduce myself. Looking forward in my journey. ✌️
That stuff does come back to life. You just have to keep it moist and give it light. At first it seems like its growing algae, then the moss starts growing.
Not the New Zeland sphagnum, they sterilize it with hot steam before export, all the spores will be dead. Irinically some of the "crappy" brands are more likely to sprout because they are lower quality moss that was harvested right in North America and not treated at all before bagging it up. So you can get all sorts of spores and things in there.
Hi. I have wild sphagnum moss growing in my garden( the moss in my garden looks exactly like sphagnum). Would it be safe for me to dry it and grow my carnivorous plants seeds in it?
Nice, healthy moss, Brad! FYI, I've been told the sphagnum moss that we buy for orchids (New Zealand or Chilean) will not grow after harvested and dry. Also, it grows naturally in full sun which is much more than any of our orchids. Looking forward to the second half! Thanks for the vid!
@@BradsGreenhouse Oddly, I have a prop box with that same sphagnum moss in it. I've used it for a LONG time because I keep adding new cuttings. I've used it for maybe 6 months or a year at this point and I just noticed little moss growths! I'm going to let it keep going and see if I can raise my own! High quality moss is difficult to find right now so I'm excited to see where it goes.
I have been able to get dry sphagnum moss grow: I bought a high quality dried moss that wasn't squished into a thin layer, it was lose. I put it in a air tight jar and put it near a window with lots of sunshine. They are even growing in my venus fly traps but it is much more slower than the sealed jar.
I feel lucky then since when I got my first few fly traps 2 years ago came with some dead Sphagnum moss, I guess it had some spores that lasted treatment. One stran so far became about 10, of course since I have well water and not city water that could be some factor in how the moss spores grew, or how a strain or 2 possibly came to life.
ive had random bits of moss pop up in my terrarium for my pitcher plants / sundews. Decided to keep it going and see how much i can get it to grow as well thats why im watching this video lol
Thank you so much for the video! I'm currently growing my cps under two 50w White Led, the Lights is 12 inches above the plants with ventilating fans. The question is can I Grow Sphagnum Moss under my set up? I Grow mostly vfts and sundews. TIA
The reason the besgrow moss might not revive back to life is probably to do with the fact they sell various grades. The 100g brick in the video is classic grade. From what I’ve researched online, the premier is better quality than classic, and is more likely to produce fresh new moss, but they also sell a besgrow supreme as well. Which is even better quality than premier. The higher grades are available in various sizes starting from 150g. They’re available in bails, and seem less compressed than the bricks.
I'm a newbie and I just put my first sphagnum into a tupperware. I soon discovered that the container has a leak so the water oozes out at the bottom a bit. I have put charcoals as false bottom. Is the crack bad for the moss? Should I transfer the moss into a new no-leak container?
i will follow your video promise!was so releaf when i saw your video coz i purchase a moss but i am not quite confident of using it in my orchids even the flower shop owner says that is ok lol, i said to myself i will probably sue her if all of my orchids die hehehhhehe , i have 20 orchids in my house so you know how its sound lol and not too cheap to have them here in sweden .thank you for the tip, i think i will grow mine moss too
Can I just grow it in a bag and hang it? Will it grow in the bag as you said in the video? I have about 1kg live moss and don't know where to put it... The bag method seems like the most space-saving option.
I just ordered some live sphagnum off etsy. I had never had any luck bringing back that dead sphagnum stuff either and I want to give my alligator lizard’s enclosure a nice layer of it.
Hey Brad. Nice video... Makes me want to go buy some live sphag... Wat would the advantages be to having it?? Also non- related question... One of my blooming size catalaya has lost all its roots n the youngest psuedobulb's leaf is starting to turn yellow... What could it be and how do I treat it?? The rest of the plant is looking normal....
Fern Crafts thanks, it really ups the humidity around nepenthes pitchers and makes them bigger. I wouldnt worry about the tiny bulb on the catt, the first first don't ever seen to last as long
how do i propagate them mine is sometimes brown sometimes green does it mean they died then they grow back alive..? they grow when it’s raining then they died when its not i always put ro water on it and doesnt let it dry but its always brown it only turn green when it’s raining
I have had some regrow from a purchased bag of sphegnum (I had it in a sealed bag with lemon seeds and the seeds didn't sprout) and I need to know how to keep it alive. I just noticed it today. I put it in a larger sealed container and put more sphegnum in the old container in case pieces might continue to grow. I put the seeds in about a year ago, so it took that long to show visible green.
Lemon seeds will not sprout if they dry out. You must take them directly from the fruit and plant, keep damp at all times. The moss needs food not just water or it will starve and die. He said seaweed fertilizer in the video!
@@resarm5007 Not my experience, but OK. I currently have three seedling lemons, a seedling lime and a whole bunch of growing sphegnum moss that hasn't been fertilized.
How do you get small/ground hugging spahgnum/moss? I want a nice top dressing for a Carnivorous bog I'm making, I'd like a nice carpet, not a forest!!!
Hii Brad, i have moss layered on flat tuber ware with lid.. spray with hand water spray.. but they grow so slowly. i am hoping they grow fast.. like weed.. but they are not like growing at all.. the side which is facing window is growing taller.. bright tender green color.. apart from that, they just do not reproduce much .. i thought they were lid closed.. they need air to have food... so i crack the lid a bit.. in door at 26C and dry air.. ..result tips were dried and changed color. i also in another tuber ware layered on crashed charcoal.. just to try out if it work.. previously i layered them on potting soil... but it get sadder... hence changed to charcoal as base. so they will not be soaking on wet substrate. pls advice how to make them grow faster.. how to reproduce them faster. thanks andrew
i tried crack the lid a bit, and their tips all turn white after a day.. they like acidic condition right ? how acidic ? i mixed a bit of cooking acid into the water to flood the bottom a bit.. to provide constant moisture.. the moss are on a layer of charcoal; and charcoal are sitting on the water that i poured into the bottom of the box. is that good ? how acidic is good for them ?
andrew ysk close the lid completely and poke small holes. 1 hole a week on the lid, see if that works. You need to have a very humid environment for these to grow outside your plastic container. Tbh, I think I wasted money buying 3 varieties of sphagnum if I can’t take them out of their enclosure :/
Hello, So Ive been growing some sphagnum recently with somewhat of a success, yet I went on a overnight trip and once I came back to water my plants and flood the moss, I noticed a white dust like particle covering the whole tray of moss. Im somewhat curious as to what this is? (fungus? mold?) Ive never seen this before and its strange to see it happen suddenly overnight. Its literally EVERYWHERE
are these kinds ever found in the wild? say for example a temperate climate - would they be the same as the species encountered in most woods or even just on green areas? I'm growing some small patches of moss I found on asphalt so I'm wondering if they're at all related
Mysllaw M. I believe sphagnum moss is a bog plant so depending on where you live maybe maybe not, for me any moss I find on asphalt is probably a pillow moss of some sort
im probably really lucky cause I bought a bag of dried shpagnum moss, I re-potted my plant and a couple days later almost 2/3 of the dried moss was alive! yes alive! amazing how it can do that but my plant loves it ever since it re grew the moss its grown like 2x faster than it normaly was!
Whats the difference between spagnum and peat?? I can't find the peat moss only the spagnum moss, can i add this as a mulch on top of my soil for my fruit plants/trees?
I would argue the point that the moss hates direct sun, I have seen them grow in direct sun in swamps and bogs really well, but then again those are in water all the time
Anthony Apostoloff I get my moss from bpz zoological. they have lots of different types of moss, including red and green sphagnum. they ship it in humid little bags
I'm surprised at that deadeed S-moss, having heard it is to give nutrients to te orchid!?Maybe there are differing views and aspects of truth, so that the dead S-moss also won't mould and they give separate nutrition. I picked some wold Sphagnum in our wood here, and it smells horribly from mould. Poor natyre, poor wild berries and trees! Also picked wild fir barm, but it had a thin layer of some green moss (Sw: lav. What's the engl word for lavar, the dry cousin if mosses, often growing on tree trunks, stones, not as moist as mosses?)
I usually buy sphagnum moss from my local nurseries, and all that have came in packages came to life in the matter of weeks. I guess it depends on the brand too.
Hi brad I just got a really beautiful orchid but I don't know what type it is so can u name it for me? It's like a sherry baby orchid but the flowers are bigger.
KenReyUbeSensei C: put it in a plastic container and use seran wrap as a lid, and keep it moist. Also make sure that it doesn’t get full sunlight, only a little or else it will dry up
