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garyfla_gw

Converting Birdsnest fern

garyfla_gw
17 years ago

hello

While in Costa Rica at a midaltitude rainforest I saw what i believe were birds nest ferns growing as epiphytes on the srm sized stems of philos. So beautiful.!!

I've tried several times to duplicate this in my shadehouse but with no luck.

I just put in some irrigation mist pipes and rather than hide them I twisted two flexible PVC pipes together

makinking them look somewhat like lianas with a slight curve from one side to the other.. I intend to use this as a support for various epiphytes so will glue different types of media to the pipe.

How do I go about starting the birds nest??

have had no problem with elkhorn and Boston growing this way.but conversion from soil to epi can be difficult

Maybe spores?? thanks gary

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