I usually buy these as 4 inch potted sporlings when I can find them.I then mount on boards and grow them on.I try to pick varieties by different leave shapes and growth habits.I have about 7 plants now of about 6 kinds it looks like.This one I know is P. Grande
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I treated the cedar board with polyurethane first so the wood will stay new looking and not get cruddy looking later on. I take 1 1/2 roofing nails and pound in half way in a large circular pattern.I put a ball shaped lump of moist sphagnum moss in the center of the nails.put the fern onto the moss, and then lace up the ferm onto the moss with 30 lb. test line fishing line.Just keep crossing over back and forth across the ferm till it is firmly attached and the moss will not fall off the board.
The next growth cycle will make a cover frond to hide the fishing line.then hang up in bright light, no hot sun and keep slightly moist.Keep out of windy spots to keep it from drying out too quickly.
I hope this sounds right.
It is so much more beautiful than real stag horns.I have a small one here not mounted.In Florida I had a huge one and I would feed it banana peels whole.
a new one I got last weekend for $19 is 3 feet across.
I love staghorns! Yours are great, Kyle!
I have one I have had for about 25 years on my porch. If I ever move I will have to cut the 4 x 4 down to take with me for it has grown all the way around it in a circle.
Kell, its amazing how these grow like that. A friend in Australia has seen them wild in an area where the collectors have yet to find.When they find the giant solitary ones (Superbums) they cut the tree down and save the section with the fern on it and place in their yards. Talk about conservation huh? Greed!
What a shame. I have a few Superbums and they made it outside last winter even in our unusal 10 days of freezes.
