If so, how much?
Thanks,
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Matt
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Will resurrection fern spread?
mbmcewen
Oct 11, 2003 01:38 PM
Replies (3)
slaytonp
Oct 12, 2003 11:20 AM
I grow a lot of different ferns in my vivariums, all of which do extrordinarily well, but three trials of the resurrection fern have been total failures. Even with daily misting and the high humidity, it has always gradually dried up and died. One would think it would be ideal for the back of a terrarium on cocoas fiber board or in sphagnum moss around leaf litter, the two ways I've tried it. Perhaps it needs to be down in the soil more, but one would think a resurrection fern would be the last to dry out and fail to "resurrect."
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Patty
Lost River, Idaho
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adamsanity
Oct 13, 2003 01:46 AM
I tried ressurection fern twice. the first time I mounted it on the back wall and it slowly died. The second time I mounted it horizontaly on a branch and it slowly started to spread. It doesnt like to be soggy and it likes good ventilation along with high humidity. Also take the dead leaves and crumple them up around your tank. This disperses the spores and they start to grow in a matter of weeks. In a few months you have tons of little ferns starting to grow. If you do that with your ressurection fern even if it dies you end up with it, and chances are the spores that take off will have grown in places that are suitable.
Homer1
Oct 15, 2003 08:53 PM
Yes, the pieces of resurrection fern that I planted on my background dried up and died, despite daily misting. However, the piece that I planted in my coconut husk chips beside my waterfall is growing and spreading quite well. It actually seems to like spreading into the Java Moss. Where it sits, the medium stays constantly moist, but the substrate is coarse enough that it is rather airy (more of an epiphytic type medium). I haven't tried dispersing the dead leaves for spores . . . that sounds like a good idea. I just don't know where everything is going to fit now that all of my plants are growing like mad and reproducing. Ahhh . . . it sounds like I need a new tank! 
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Homer W. Faucett III, esq.
Purveyor of Trivialities and Fine Nonsense
