I have been nursing 3 staghorn baby plants since I discovered them growing on our block wall. They have been doing ok but I found one had come adrift from it’s morings when I returned from Bris. It’s about the size of a 10c piece and now I have fixed it to an icy pole stick and the end of the stick is standing in a cm of water. The fern and stick are good and moist.

My question: Is the whole thing going to be too wet for the fern if I leave it standing in that cm of water? I’m working blind on this one so I’m open to any suggestions.

I may not get back to check any replies for a day or two but I will get back sometime.

Sounds like a good idea to me Pom.
As long as the plant itself doesn’t remain inundated even in part, should be a good way to keep it going. You could fix the popstick onto a piece of coolite/polystyrene. That’s how they are when i see them for sale. (Stags i mean. Not popsticks. They are for sale with icecream on them.)

I have often tied them to tiny bits of terracotta with a mattress of sphagnum moss. And kept in the greenhouse with misting irrigation. That was down south.

Up here we just tied them straight to the tree where we wanted them and hose them every so often… but I never had one as small as your pom.

My SIL would put a piece of banana peel behind it for potassium too.

Longy said:

Sounds like a good idea to me Pom.
As long as the plant itself doesn’t remain inundated even in part, should be a good way to keep it going. You could fix the popstick onto a piece of coolite/polystyrene. That’s how they are when i see them for sale. (Stags i mean. Not popsticks. They are for sale with icecream on them.)

Why would I want to put ice cream on my stag for? lol.

pain master said:

I have often tied them to tiny bits of terracotta with a mattress of sphagnum moss. And kept in the greenhouse with misting irrigation. That was down south.

Up here we just tied them straight to the tree where we wanted them and hose them every so often… but I never had one as small as your pom.

You’ve possibly got small ones all over the place. Assuming Townsville is wet enough I mean.

It sounds as though I have done the best I can for my baby. My problem now is trying to work out if I have it secured the right way up. Very hard to tell a this stage.

Thanks for yor imput Longy and PM. Thanks for the hint about banana peel too Lucky.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

I have often tied them to tiny bits of terracotta with a mattress of sphagnum moss. And kept in the greenhouse with misting irrigation. That was down south.

Up here we just tied them straight to the tree where we wanted them and hose them every so often… but I never had one as small as your pom.

You’ve possibly got small ones all over the place. Assuming Townsville is wet enough I mean.

we need to get up into the mountains around Mt Spec to find Staghorns all over the place…. In Townsville, they need to be cultivated.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

I have often tied them to tiny bits of terracotta with a mattress of sphagnum moss. And kept in the greenhouse with misting irrigation. That was down south.

Up here we just tied them straight to the tree where we wanted them and hose them every so often… but I never had one as small as your pom.

You’ve possibly got small ones all over the place. Assuming Townsville is wet enough I mean.

we need to get up into the mountains around Mt Spec to find Staghorns all over the place…. In Townsville, they need to be cultivated.

I will wonder for a long long time how I happened to get 3 baby ones on a block wall where not even a fern grows. They just appeared and I spotted them. On this subject…We have common old bracken fern popping up all over the place this year. Must have been something to do with the extra rainfall we got earlier in the year. Never seen it in the house pad before. It’s another weed to try and keep at bay. Don’t want it to run amok.