Helpful video but having thoughts as usual. In nature there are no envelopes, sterilised soils and containers, yet the fern plant spreads. But as soon when we humans get involve, things become expensive and complicated.
We understand. Ferns generally grow in areas where there are low temperatures and high moisture. Each fern plant disperses millions of spores but only a few germinate and take life under favorable conditions. So we should also try to provide such favorable conditions to succeed in germinating the spores.
It's like the staggering odds that orchids and most spore/seed producing plants face in nature. The spores/seeds are basically thrown into a lottery where they must land in the perfect spot, under ideal conditions with a certain microbial environment, particularly mycorrhizal fungi, to germinate successfully. The failure rate is crazy high, like 99.999%. Scary/wild that without that kind of failure rate our world would be a suffocated garden of ferns and orchids! 🪴🪴🌐🪴🪴
Pretty good advice. Propagate on the plants active growing season.
Do you have to cut off the leaf or can you collect spores from a living leaf? My blue star fern I don’t want to cut.
Please answer this one
This was a really helpful, informative video. Thanks heaps!
Good day! Is it necessary to use perlite or i can plant the fern just with soil? Thank you!
Hello there,
It is always better to use perlite or any substance that provides a lift and better aeration to the growing media🙂.
What temperature should hot water be while sterilizing the cocopeat? Thank you.
It can be 70-80 degrees Celsius. If you do not have apparatus to measure the temperature, you can just go for sterilizing it with well-boiled water.
Do we have to water in rhe box
We never saw the result.
Thank you
Helpful video but having thoughts as usual. In nature there are no envelopes, sterilised soils and containers, yet the fern plant spreads. But as soon when we humans get involve, things become expensive and complicated.
We understand. Ferns generally grow in areas where there are low temperatures and high moisture. Each fern plant disperses millions of spores but only a few germinate and take life under favorable conditions. So we should also try to provide such favorable conditions to succeed in germinating the spores.
Well, a balanced ecosystem (nature) won’t grow mold/fungus as easily as a container of dirt in your house.
It's like the staggering odds that orchids and most spore/seed producing plants face in nature.
The spores/seeds are basically thrown into a lottery where they must land in the perfect spot, under ideal conditions with a certain microbial environment, particularly mycorrhizal fungi, to germinate successfully.
The failure rate is crazy high, like 99.999%.
Scary/wild that without that kind of failure rate our world would be a suffocated garden of ferns and orchids! 🪴🪴🌐🪴🪴
What do you call that variety of fern
This variety of fern has many common names. Some of them are Monarch fern, Wart fern, and Musk fern.