Potting staghorns

[Aliamyz]

What type of things to use to mount it like this?


I just bought a platycerium bifurcatum.

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

Thanx.

[rsivertsen]

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

[wijaya]

@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

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

[myherb]

Originally Posted by Aliamyz

What type of things to use to mount it like this?


I just bought a platycerium bifurcatum.

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

Thanx.

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

[TS]

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

[funkychips]

Originally Posted by TS

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

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

[rsivertsen]

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!