Potting staghorns
 

What type of things to use to mount it like this?
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...t/DSC08684.jpg

I just bought a platycerium bifurcatum.

Any advice is highly appreciated!
For now, i potted them up in a basket with nep mix.

Thanx.

Re: Potting staghorns
 

P. bifurcatum is a weed! It will grow in most peat/sphagnum compost mixes, including anything else, and it pups like crazy! P. coranarium, P. grande, P. superbum P. ridleyii and a few others never pups, and the only way to get more of them is to raise them from spore. - Rich

Re: Potting staghorns
 

@Aliamyz: I am using what so called 'pakis' as the base, it was shaped into square shape, or you can use a piece of woods then tied up the whole thing on the woods, at first it will looks ugly but give it sometime until the new crown grown and covering the whole wood/ pakis and the strings.

Hope this help.

Ed

Re: Potting staghorns
 

actually you dont really pot them up.. you mound them on something.. like papan lapis.. they dont really need potting mix unless immature =)

Re: Potting staghorns
 

Try spaghnum moss (NZ ones are best) on osmunda root board for mounting. really light weight.

Re: Potting staghorns
 

I mounted my platy on plastic drain cover with some sphagnum moss to keep the root moist. They grow well.

Re: Potting staghorns
 

Hey, that's a good idea TS! Maybe I should go look out for one or two and try. *biggrin2*

Re: Potting staghorns
 

That is really P. coranarium, as mentioned, (not bifurcatum), which is a much nicer plant, but doesn't pup. The only way to get more of them is to raise them from spore! :1thumbup: