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RE: Mounting plants?

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Posted by: Slaytonp at Tue Nov 6 23:14:34 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Slaytonp ]  
   

I've never mounted them on oak, but on cork bark, or other wood, I push the stolon, if present, into a crevice and do one of several things, depending upon the substrate. You may have to drill a hole for the stolon and bottom part of the plant with oak, because it is so dense. You can then support it more or less upright with bamboo skewers from various aspects of the vivarium, which you can remove later. You can also hot glue an outer upper leaf or two directly onto the bark, or use silicone. This will probably be enough to support it long enough for it to send out it's own support roots. Just use the middle parts of the leaves for any glue or silicone, as you don't want to damage the growth center at the base. I've done various things with fishing line, cotton thread, using nearby protuberences to secure this around the plant. You can also use staples on a couple of leaves, to be removed later. Always use an older outside leaf, of course. They will die off eventually, anyway. I also usually wrap just a bit of sphagnum moss around the base of the plant before securing it or stuffing it into a drill hole. This seems to help it develop the support roots faster.

I do some pretty audacious things to my bromes without killing them off.
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