In my experience moss will not grow well indoors. It can grow in a greenhouse, but not in a house or apartment. Moss requires moisture, but it also requires a great deal of moving air and good ventilation at the same time, otherwise all that moisture it likes will turn into an environment in which fungus, algae, and bacteria can thrive and kill the moss. This is only my opinion, and my experience, but I think if you grow moss indoors, you might have a good long while with it to watch it grow before it starts to die off, but eventually it will succumb to the conditions of the indoors. Pehaps there are other folks on GW who have had a different experience growing moss indoors.

Hooray,

I would like to recommend to you the book "Moss Gardening: Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures" by George Schenk. It is quite good. It answers a lot of questions in a very fun, and straightforward way. It contains a lot of very gorgeous images of moss and lichens and other little plants. I think it might be useful to you in your pursuit of growing mosses. I found a used copy on Amazon last year. The book received an American Horticultural Society Award, so I must not be the only one that liked it. If you get a copy, let me know what you think.

-Treehaus

Please remember that digging up moss from land you do not own is illegal.

Thanks everyone and I hope to get that book sometime. My 1st try at growing moss just failed, as I woke up a couple days ago only to find my moss paste (beer+chopped moss) completely overtaken and covered by white mold. I was dribbling water on the paste to keep it constantly moist. There is little air circulation in my room.

I was wondering what steps I should take in order to grow moss indoors without molding, if this is in any way possible.

Judy b Ontario,
Digging up ANYTHING on land you do not own is illegal!!!
Unless you own the mineral rights!!!