Re: Sphagnum

Brett Lymn (blymn@awadi.com.au)
Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:26:25 +1030 (CST)

According to Michael.Chamberland:
>
snip.....
>
>I usually don't advocate field collecting, but in the case of Sphagnum
>I wonder if perhaps, maybe, obtaining some from wild sources might not
>be so bad.
>

Actually, I managed to get a fine crop of sphagnum from some dried
stuff that I bought ages ago. I wanted it to pot up a nepenthes (I
use chopped sphagnum for mine), just chopped up the dried stuff,
potted the plant and whacked it in the terrarium. A while later the
moss started sprouting, now I have trouble keeping the stuff at bay!

-- Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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