shagnum moss wanted

[Amelie.Poulain]

Marvin, can you post a photo of the sphagnum moss you collected from your condo garden. Love to see the varieties that's growing lowland.

[kentosaurs]

I didn't know that spahgnum moss grows in lowland conditions..........Anyways like athene said me want pictures....Could be algae ur taking hahaha

Ken

[TS]

Marvin, I wonder if that's the live sphagnum moss. S. moss need quite wet/humid to thrive in our place (I mean tropical lowland). And they normally can't withstand direct hot sun for long. A picture of the moss you collected will tell.
Xi Wei, I don't encourage you to use just live SM for all your neps. The roots too will need some air. Moreover it's not easy to get live SM in the nursery, not to say a big quantity. Just use dried SM + perlite/sand, most neps thrive in this mix. You can get it in ACE or Jusco. Ace is selling a better quality New Zealand SM which lasts you for years. Jusco is selling "Uncle.... Sam or something" brand which is very much cheaper but poor quality. It decomposes rather quickly.

[sooxiwei]

Originally Posted by TS

Marvin, I wonder if that's the live sphagnum moss. S. moss need quite wet/humid to thrive in our place (I mean tropical lowland). And they normally can't withstand direct hot sun for long. A picture of the moss you collected will tell.
Xi Wei, I don't encourage you to use just live SM for all your neps. The roots too will need some air. Moreover it's not easy to get live SM in the nursery, not to say a big quantity. Just use dried SM + perlite/sand, most neps thrive in this mix. You can get it in ACE or Jusco. Ace is selling a better quality New Zealand SM which lasts you for years. Jusco is selling "Uncle.... Sam or something" brand which is very much cheaper but poor quality. It decomposes rather quickly.

icic, thanks a lot for the info, what about drosera? does the theory work the same or not? thanks

[sooxiwei]

agree with amelie.poullain and kentosaurs, if it happen to be the same moss as i saw in oil palm estate or even my water well, then will get bunch of them before being release back to home

[TS]

Xi Wei, do you have a camera or something to snap them? I'm interested to see what kind of mosses are those.
Actually you can place some as top layer in your nep pot. They will eventually form a layer of beautiful green carpet.

[sooxiwei]

Originally Posted by TS

Xi Wei, do you have a camera or something to snap them? I'm interested to see what kind of mosses are those.
Actually you can place some as top layer in your nep pot. They will eventually form a layer of beautiful green carpet.

too bad that i don't have a camera, only got webcam from com, so far one looks like aquatic moss to me, and the other is every where in any old oil palm estate

[TS]

Originally Posted by marvin1997

hehe, they're got shpaghum moss growing in the garden of our condo near the swimming pool.No one cares about them except me.I asked the gardeners and they just say don't cut the flowers(they've got those pink orchids and spiderlilys).So I get to collect them.And they're live ones!And.........are there more than one type of sphagum moss?Those on my ping are lighter and the ones I collect are darker green.

OK, managed to find the thread, the live SM should look like this.
https://forum.petpitcher.net/showthread.php?t=1188

Originally Posted by sooxiwei

....... so far one looks like aquatic moss to me, and the other is every where in any old oil palm estate

Xi Wei, you could get some to place in your pot, I like to see green carpet formed on the surface of the media.

[sooxiwei]

Originally Posted by TS

OK, managed to find the thread, the live SM should look like this.
https://forum.petpitcher.net/showthread.php?t=1188



Xi Wei, you could get some to place in your pot, I like to see green carpet formed on the surface of the media.

icic, thanks for the information, i think those in oil palm estate is nowhere near those moss from the link, will go get some when i go viking to any nursery in sight and in mind, what is the common name you all call it when you come across nurseries that are operated by chinaman or people who don't know what it is?

[Amelie.Poulain]

Xi Wei,

err... what's viking?

I know viking as in Scandinavian explorer or Nepenthes globosa aka. 'Viking'. But I have absolutely no idea what you meant in this contact