(Growing conditions) Sphagnum moss « Asëa Aranion – Healing and Death

I used to have A LOT of trouble growing sphagnum moss. Of course, I used to grow them over a layer of peat moss and sealed them up in sealed-up clear plastic containers left in a few hours of direct morning sun.

Over time, the moss did grow. However, its condition varied greatly even within the container itself. The bottom, nearest to the layer of peat, became pale or brown, as if dying or drying out (even though the container's environment was moist and humid); going upwards, the tips became messy and tangled with one another. However, they were a healthy green.

When the moss continued growing and pressed themselves all over the bottom of the container's lid, I knew I had to do something or else I'll probably lose the whole container of moss if insufficient light got to all portions of them.

A pot of nepenthes ampullaria 'speckled' I'd bought from someone came with a beautiful carpet of green, healthy moss. Inspired, I decided to heck it, and went to snip off all the healthy tips of the moss in my containers, and dumped them into all my other carnivorous plants' pots. I exposed them to as much direct afternoon sun as I could after they had more or less acclimatized, and watered and misted them daily during that period of acclimatization.

Slowly forming the star shape so typical of its species