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Old 10-25-2012, 10:22 AM
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I love these small plants but I've had a hard time finding my groove growing them. I kept them in their small clay pots that are useless to most other plants but my environment was just too dry and they desiccated. Then I tried sh but they are not easy to get established in sh. The one that did establish has done very well but has yet to bloom for me. Light seems to be sufficient as it takes on the purple color typical of high light situations.

So I decided to try one more method, mounting. I don't see it much different that the little clay pots however I have recently built a ultrasonic humidifier and enclosed my grow area in the basement and so the humidity is way up. Even those in clay pots are doing well now. But I wanted to still try a mount. I took the plants with new roots growing and fashioned a wire so that it is around the base of the older plants and then drilled into the wood. You cannot see the wire at all once I wrapped long strands of moss around the bases. And that was it. I set the whole thing on a clay saucer filled with grow stones and then topped with water to keep the local humidity even higher. The moss is slightly damp come lights out, not wet at all, and it remains slightly damp until the next day or two. Much better than my native environment!

Here it is... It's brand new, so no telling if it'll work.

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