Stanghorn Fern. - Orchid Board

DeafOrchidLover · #1 02-01-2015, 12:08 AM

Do anyone own a stanghorn fern? My neighbor gave me a little one. I am looking forward to see it grow... It's lot a like orchid but different plant. Here is the picture. They're so pretty...

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AussieVanda · #2 02-01-2015, 01:26 AM

Staghorn, not stanghorn.

They're native to Australia, as well as parts of asia and introduced into Hawaii. They get their nutrients from fallen leaves, droppings and the like. Popular with tree snakes!

DeafOrchidLover · #3 02-01-2015, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by AussieVanda

Staghorn, not stanghorn.

They're native to Australia, as well as parts of asia and introduced into Hawaii. They get their nutrients from fallen leaves, droppings and the like. Popular with tree snakes!

Thank you for spelling it right. Heh! Lots of Staghorn ferns around where I live. Lots of ppls have them. My landlord, she has one, it's massive big one, probably weight few hundred pounds. They're so pretty... Oh tree snakes, they can come. I love snakes, especially poison snakes. (Lots of cottonmouth snakes around bcz we live around swamps.

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Paul · #4 02-01-2015, 11:38 AM

Incredibly lovely plants. Take good care of yours and you may eventually reach this:

http://www.seeds-gallery.eu/1168-lar...fern-seeds.jpg

catherinecarney · #5 02-01-2015, 12:13 PM

I have two small ones and my mom has one that's (I kid you not) the size of a golden retriever in her sun room in CT. Some people consider them "indicator species" to tell if the growing conditions are suitable for orchids, BTW.

They can either be grown in a loose potting mix (sort of like terrestrail orchids/sem-epiphytic bromeliads) or mounted. Bright indirect light, water when needed....Sounds familiar, right (lol)?

The only issue I seem to have with mine is scale--for some reason they're magnets for the little bugs, so I have to remember to be diligent about insecticidal soap sprays.

Hope this helps!

Catherine

Dillon123 · #6 02-01-2015, 12:19 PM

I have couple of them in semi shade and a water them when they become partially dry. All of mine are mounted either on wood or tree fern slabs. Hope yours becomes a big one someday

DeafOrchidLover · #7 02-01-2015, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by catherinecarney

I have two small ones and my mom has one that's (I kid you not) the size of a golden retriever in her sun room in CT. Some people consider them "indicator species" to tell if the growing conditions are suitable for orchids, BTW.

They can either be grown in a loose potting mix (sort of like terrestrail orchids/sem-epiphytic bromeliads) or mounted. Bright indirect light, water when needed....Sounds familiar, right (lol)?

The only issue I seem to have with mine is scale--for some reason they're magnets for the little bugs, so I have to remember to be diligent about insecticidal soap sprays.

Hope this helps!

Catherine

Scale. Really, hmm, thank you for telling me...

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fotofashion · #8 02-01-2015, 09:24 PM

Did your neighbor happen to tell you which one yours is?

Ray · #9 02-02-2015, 10:04 AM

When I was in grad school in Atlanta - oh, SO many years ago - I bought a division of a Platycerium bifurcatum. I put it in a wooden basket of sphagnum. When the roots grew through the moss and were exposed to the air, sterile fronds grow, and then the fertile fronds soon follow.

I moved that plant from Atlanta to Louisville KY, LaGrange KY, Georgetown SC, Jackson NJ and finally to Doylestown PA.

By the time it was lost to the same heater failure that wiped out a 20-year orchid collection in 1994, it weighed about 75 pounds dry, and was over 10 feet in diameter, suspended from chains attached to an 8-foot-tall 2"x4" tripod.

Once caveat about keeping them in the greenhouse: the spores are extremely viable; plucking seedlings from hundreds of orchid pots is a PITA.

DeafOrchidLover · #10 02-02-2015, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray

When I was in grad school in Atlanta - oh, SO many years ago - I bought a division of a Platycerium bifurcatum. I put it in a wooden basket of sphagnum. When the roots grew through the moss and were exposed to the air, sterile fronds grow, and then the fertile fronds soon follow.

I moved that plant from Atlanta to Louisville KY, LaGrange KY, Georgetown SC, Jackson NJ and finally to Doylestown PA.

By the time it was lost to the same heater failure that wiped out a 20-year orchid collection in 1994, it weighed about 75 pounds dry, and was over 10 feet in diameter, suspended from chains attached to an 8-foot-tall 2"x4" tripod.

Once caveat about keeping them in the greenhouse: the spores are extremely viable; plucking seedlings from hundreds of orchid pots is a PITA.

Oh my! Thank you for filling me in and I will remember this... I probably have them in our future greenhouse. BUT I've seen many of them outside under tree shades around where I live. I may have to find a better wood so I can put it on this spring. It's cypress bark as it's last minute to mount. :/
I'm sorry to hear about your orchids that you had and it got frozen overnight. That's no fun to see that. If it was me, I'd be screaming for a while and crying. (I'm a crybaby when orchid dies.)

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