My family has had a large staghorn for 20+ years hanging under our oak tree. It has never reproduced before, but recently we found a baby staghorn in a nook of the tree :) I appreciate your advice on how to care for the babies because I am inheriting this one haha and have only ever known the big staghorn! Thank you thank you
I was gifted one for graduation and I just realized I had no idea how to care for it. It’s been outside in the heat like a champ. 💪🏼 Thanks for this info, from Denton, TX. I’ll have to plan a trip!
Thank you. As we watched this heading to Home Depot, I grabbed the necessary tools. two small plants, moss, a basket. thank you for all the info , straight to the point clear and simple. we appreciated the advice.
Awesome content thanks for the information! I love mine, just got her this summer so I was looking for winter card info and you touched all the bases. You can tell you do this for a living! Thanks again!
Kool! Brought 3 from Florida to Texas 5 years ago. One guy is over 30 years old. Big dude. The other 2 are 20 years old. So far so good. Thanks for informative video.
We recently got our first staghorn and we appreciate the great information for the care! We look forward to hopefully watching it grow nice and large over the coming years!
Too many hurricanes and lost trees in my yard here in Forida on Beachside. Now my staghorn I've had for 50 years is turning yellow, getting too much sun hanging on the same tree it's been on forever, but all the trees around it filtering the light are gone due to hurricanes. Thanks for the info. PS WOW, does it love very ripe bananas I stick on it!
Interesting. I have one like your largest one growing on our Cassia tree. My Staghorn is over way over 25 years old and covers all the tree trunk now. I would guess it would be quite expensive to replace. We hung the neighbors Staghorn on his Live Oak tree. He acquired it with the house. It also is huge. It may even be the parent to mine...
Great information my X-Wife in California gave me one she has many attached to wood, baskets, and on trees the one I got came from a pot and I wanted to learn how to replant you provided me with some good information about dividing watering in a pot basket etc I live in missouri it will love the summer but the winter it will need to be a houseplant
Mary Kay Pope, thank you for a great video. I planted one on a piece of wood. But it has never grown. I am wondering if I can revive it. It has been the same size for over a year. It is the 3rd I have killed. I am doing something wrong.
I appreciated learning there is an up and down. I just couldn't see what you were talking about or hear more than, "see those green fronds", when you were showing how to tell up from down. On my staghorn I have fronds pointing every direction and I can't tell at all which way is up. It's a six inch pot and almost looks like it has fronds growing from 3 directions. I'm trying the facing it toward the light same way every day to see if that will help it decide which way the fronds are growing.
I find them easy to grow. Hang in the tree from hook. Fertilize with milorganite or fish emulsion every once in a while. Water when leaves turn a grey-ish color. NO BANANAS !! You will only create a bed of bugs in your staghorn. ✌🏻❤
I just got a staghorn bigger than your small one but it doesn't have a nice protective sterile frond although there is a teeny one growing. Thinking the grower maybe had no clue and pulled it off. It's in regular potting soil not loose bark soil. Should I transplant it? Plant looks super healthy.
Hello.i live in Thailand and I have staghorn fern which is wilting.i already had 1 die.i water it about every 3 days.its 38c everyday.its in the shade.no direct sun.if I don't water it ,it wilts and the same if I do.any ideas?
I have a massive one given to my by a friend who moved from her home in the Florida Keys. I have kept it alive in dappled shade on the ground until I can find a place for it after Irma. By massive, I mean hugely! Haha. Is it better to try and attach it to a tree or to a piece of wood and hang? I really don’t want to divide because I love the massive mature visual impact.
Are the ferns prone to harboring insects such as scale, mealy bugs or other critters that I do not want to settle into my orchids? If they MUST be treated for insects, what is safe?
I'm in Pa, zone 6a, BUT, I have a greenhouse that I keep at about 50f, and I want to try a Staghorn fern. Seeing how I don;t have to put it on a board, I may try and buy one of these by online ordering. Finding the right basket may be hard though. BTW, can they take watering with city water? If not, I can get fresh water from up in a place where mountain spring water comes out. I'm guessing they don't need fertilized?
If you have the most common species of Staghorn Fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, you should be able to overwinter the plant in a greenhouse in your area if you keep the temps. above 50°F. If you use city water, collect it and let it stand 24 hours before use. We use fish and seaweed fertilizer monthly during the growing season.
Do you have to separate them or can you let them continue to get big? I just inherited a 10 year old pretty large one and I don’t think it’s ever been separated.
At some point they may become too large to move inside for a freeze, or they may begin to fall apart. At that point they may be separated and replanted using long-fibered spaghnum peat moss. Other wise, enjoy the enormity of them!
You can definitely let it get quite large. Did you see the ones in the video that we have at the nursery? Eventually we will need to divide it into smaller units, as it becomes difficult to move! They are quite easy to separate. Use the long-fibered sphagnum peat moss to mount them or put in wire baskets.
You can separate and take pups from them or let it get bigger. As it gets bigger you will need to rig up a block and tackle with a sieve for lowering and raising to cut pups or make easier for feeding if the stag horn is not attached to the tree.
I have two. One is 18 years old attached to tree. The other is on a steel cable hanging over a limb. Each one is of a different kind of species as noted by the leaves.
Thanks for the informations about staghorn, very informative! Can you let me know the species of Platycerium is that big one next to you at the end of the video?
Hi Alex. With all the Platycerium bifucatum hybrids out there, I can only tell you that it is a Platycerium bifucatum variety. I have seen what has been identified as a "true" P. bifurcatum, and it has VERY narrow fertile fronds. Most of the P. bifurcatum varieties on the market today seem to have wider fronds, similar to the ones you see in our video.
Backbone Valley Nursery is it ok to use Eco neem on my elkhorn fern as I have holes on the hump on the bottom something eating it needing your help Vince
Hi Ruby Anne. No worries, your young Staghorn will produce a "sterile" or "disc" frond soon enough. They are sometimes a little slow to get started, but soon will grow quite fast. Just give it proper conditions and you will have a big beauty in no time!
@@backbonevalleynursery7802 thanks, I just purchased one growing in a pot but in coconut husk. Everything I buy in that medium rots so now I'll feel better about repotting it. Thanks. If I can keep this one alive I will definitely invest in a bigger one.
We use a foliar feed of Seaweed or Fish Fertilizer on ours during the growing season. They are mounted in wire baskets filled with long-fibered sphagnum peat moss.
Hello. With all due respect that is not a Staghorn Fern. The one you were showing was an Elkhorn Fern. = Platycerium Bifurcartum. Staghorn. = Platycerium Superbum. 🤝🙏
I use a seaweed/fish solution once a month April-Sept. and pour a bucket of the solution over the top of a very large plant. An alternative would be a seaweed/fish fert. foliar feed.
My family has had a large staghorn for 20+ years hanging under our oak tree. It has never reproduced before, but recently we found a baby staghorn in a nook of the tree :) I appreciate your advice on how to care for the babies because I am inheriting this one haha and have only ever known the big staghorn! Thank you thank you
Thank you. You presentation was well paced and the demos with plants at the various stages was helpful..... and how to take from a large plant.
4:12 "Mary Kay, are you with a customer?" "No , I am with 65,000 potential ones."
I was gifted one for graduation and I just realized I had no idea how to care for it. It’s been outside in the heat like a champ. 💪🏼
Thanks for this info, from Denton, TX. I’ll have to plan a trip!
Thank you for taking the time to teach us about this plant.
Thank you. As we watched this heading to Home Depot, I grabbed the necessary tools. two small plants, moss, a basket. thank you for all the info , straight to the point clear and simple. we appreciated the advice.
Mary Kay Pope your video was the best self explained video I have watched. Thank you so much.
@@sandraromine2203 who you referring to
Sandra, was yours in soil and you removed the soil and put it in moss?
@@lauraringle I placed mine in peat moss and when visited I should have taken home, the Staghorn grew like no other, all I know have is memories.
Awesome content thanks for the information! I love mine, just got her this summer so I was looking for winter card info and you touched all the bases. You can tell you do this for a living! Thanks again!
Fantastic to see, amazing specimens. Thanks for the info!!
Kool! Brought 3 from Florida to Texas 5 years ago. One guy is over 30 years old. Big dude. The other 2 are 20 years old.
So far so good.
Thanks for informative video.
Thankyou. I just purchased one for our home and am looking forward to seeing it thrive and grow.
What an informative video! Just got a staghorn clipping and you answered all my questions. And Snickers made it entertaining!
this video got very dark in the end...
Yeah it did😂
😂😂😂
… and nobody has seen Mary Kate or the kitty ever since 😳
Had mine for >20 years. It’s part of the family. Fantastic plants ❤
U hv a beautiful style of explaination,very explicit n to the point.love u dear
Thank you I love them I have 42 in my backyard.
Just got one today thanks for the information🌿. I want to post it on a wall.
Thank you!
Very informative video & a very pretty cat.👍👍
Thanks for the video.
LOVE your personality and that you included Snickers
We recently got our first staghorn and we appreciate the great information for the care! We look forward to hopefully watching it grow nice and large over the coming years!
Very good explanations...
Too many hurricanes and lost trees in my yard here in Forida on Beachside. Now my staghorn I've had for 50 years is turning yellow, getting too much sun hanging on the same tree it's been on forever, but all the trees around it filtering the light are gone due to hurricanes.
Thanks for the info.
PS WOW, does it love very ripe bananas I stick on it!
Awesome love that nursery
Interesting. I have one like your largest one growing on our Cassia tree. My Staghorn is over way over 25 years old and covers all the tree trunk now. I would guess it would be quite expensive to replace. We hung the neighbors Staghorn on his Live Oak tree. He acquired it with the house. It also is huge. It may even be the parent to mine...
Great information my X-Wife in California gave me one she has many attached to wood, baskets, and on trees the one I got came from a pot and I wanted to learn how to replant you provided me with some good information about dividing watering in a pot basket etc I live in missouri it will love the summer but the winter it will need to be a houseplant
Mary Kay Pope, thank you for a great video. I planted one on a piece of wood. But it has never grown. I am wondering if I can revive it. It has been the same size for over a year. It is the 3rd I have killed. I am doing something wrong.
I absolutely love her
Thank you for the info! All info online is that you should keep them moist
and I was misting mine once a day and watering full once a week
I appreciated learning there is an up and down. I just couldn't see what you were talking about or hear more than, "see those green fronds", when you were showing how to tell up from down. On my staghorn I have fronds pointing every direction and I can't tell at all which way is up. It's a six inch pot and almost looks like it has fronds growing from 3 directions. I'm trying the facing it toward the light same way every day to see if that will help it decide which way the fronds are growing.
ty Mary :)
Thanks for video, short but informative. P.S. Hi Snickers!!
Where to buy an iron bucket to plant the stag horn?
Thank you for your informative video!
Thank you Miss Mary Kay!! Snickers is a cutie
G00D Evening from Auckland, New Zealand it’s Saturday, February 29, 2020.
❤️Snickers! Love the video
I find them easy to grow. Hang in the tree from hook. Fertilize with milorganite or fish emulsion every once in a while. Water when leaves turn a grey-ish color. NO BANANAS !! You will only create a bed of bugs in your staghorn. ✌🏻❤
I just got a staghorn bigger than your small one but it doesn't have a nice protective sterile frond although there is a teeny one growing. Thinking the grower maybe had no clue and pulled it off. It's in regular potting soil not loose bark soil. Should I transplant it? Plant looks super healthy.
Gotta watch all the way to the end of the video
You can grow these outside in California year round, they take the winter with little to no damage.
How cold does it get ? I know California has all kinds of weather. Thanks
@@danielrosales5968 This year the coldest it got was 33F. Average cool winter temps were 33-40. I am an hour away from the west coast
Thank you for the video. What is the grow rate on these babies??? Are they fast or moderate
Hey I found and old stagghorn off the trash pile it has no leaves can it be restore?
Good tips I'm going to replant mine after our cold spell.. I use fishwater they go to town.
cool idea :)
Do you use fish water out of a fish tank?
@@sandraromine2203 yes they blow up
beautiful cat❤❤
How do I get it out of a small hanging basket to a larger one??
Love ur cat !!!!
Hello.i live in Thailand and I have staghorn fern which is wilting.i already had 1 die.i water it about every 3 days.its 38c everyday.its in the shade.no direct sun.if I don't water it ,it wilts and the same if I do.any ideas?
I have a massive one given to my by a friend who moved from her home in the Florida Keys. I have kept it alive in dappled shade on the ground until I can find a place for it after Irma. By massive, I mean hugely! Haha. Is it better to try and attach it to a tree or to a piece of wood and hang? I really don’t want to divide because I love the massive mature visual impact.
That’s an awesome idea!
Are the ferns prone to harboring insects such as scale, mealy bugs or other critters that I do not want to settle into my orchids? If they MUST be treated for insects, what is safe?
can i use a cocofibre basketliner for a lining and then fill up with moss an anthurium soil?
Hey i been watching your program and i like what you teach i recently found a stagghorn plant with no leaves on it can it still serve
I am sorry to say that I cannot predict that without seeing it. What do you have to lose? Follow the care instructions and see what happens!
Hi Mary Kate. Nice video. Can I plant my Netherlands stag horn fern on my huge eucalyptus?
I left my stag in the frost over night.. can I fix it
Oh and I also fertilize my jumbo Staghorn fern with a whole banana peel a few times a year.
I would like to see how to divide it when it's gotten too big. 🧐
I have a starter, and when should I mount it?
You can mount it at any time. Start small and watch it grow!
snickers is precious
I'm in Pa, zone 6a, BUT, I have a greenhouse that I keep at about 50f, and I want to try a Staghorn fern. Seeing how I don;t have to put it on a board, I may try and buy one of these by online ordering. Finding the right basket may be hard though.
BTW, can they take watering with city water? If not, I can get fresh water from up in a place where mountain spring water comes out. I'm guessing they don't need fertilized?
If you have the most common species of Staghorn Fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, you should be able to overwinter the plant in a greenhouse in your area if you keep the temps. above 50°F. If you use city water, collect it and let it stand 24 hours before use. We use fish and seaweed fertilizer monthly during the growing season.
Do you have to separate them or can you let them continue to get big? I just inherited a 10 year old pretty large one and I don’t think it’s ever been separated.
At some point they may become too large to move inside for a freeze, or they may begin to fall apart. At that point they may be separated and replanted using long-fibered spaghnum peat moss. Other wise, enjoy the enormity of them!
You can definitely let it get quite large. Did you see the ones in the video that we have at the nursery? Eventually we will need to divide it into smaller units, as it becomes difficult to move! They are quite easy to separate. Use the long-fibered sphagnum peat moss to mount them or put in wire baskets.
You can separate and take pups from them or let it get bigger. As it gets bigger you will need to rig up a block and tackle with a sieve for lowering and raising to cut pups or make easier for feeding if the stag horn is not attached to the tree.
I have two. One is 18 years old attached to tree. The other is on a steel cable hanging over a limb. Each one is of a different kind of species as noted by the leaves.
Can you keep them in the bathroom
Thanks for the informations about staghorn, very informative!
Can you let me know the species of Platycerium is that big one next to you at the end of the video?
Hi Alex. With all the Platycerium bifucatum hybrids out there, I can only tell you that it is a Platycerium bifucatum variety. I have seen what has been identified as a "true" P. bifurcatum, and it has VERY narrow fertile fronds. Most of the P. bifurcatum varieties on the market today seem to have wider fronds, similar to the ones you see in our video.
Backbone Valley Nursery is it ok to use Eco neem on my elkhorn fern as I have holes on the hump on the bottom something eating it needing your help Vince
I just purchased a young staghorn fern and it does not have a shield. Should I be worried or will it produce one?
Hi Ruby Anne. No worries, your young Staghorn will produce a "sterile" or "disc" frond soon enough. They are sometimes a little slow to get started, but soon will grow quite fast. Just give it proper conditions and you will have a big beauty in no time!
Be patient. It will produce one.
Backbone Valley Nursery j
Are staghorns in any way related to orchids? (Askin for a friend)
😻😻😻
Air on the dry side!
Thanks for sharing this.
Cool looking cat
Have any of you grown these in pots?
Yes, we have grown them successfully in pots in a quality, well drained potting soil.
@@backbonevalleynursery7802 thanks, I just purchased one growing in a pot but in coconut husk. Everything I buy in that medium rots so now I'll feel better about repotting it. Thanks. If I can keep this one alive I will definitely invest in a bigger one.
Why is there so much empty space in the video
Do you fertilize this plant? if so, how if its mounted?
After you eat a banana, put the remainder behind/at the base of the plant. Just stuff it back there.
We use a foliar feed of Seaweed or Fish Fertilizer on ours during the growing season. They are mounted in wire baskets filled with long-fibered sphagnum peat moss.
O, to be a horticulturalist...
Very nice 🪴🌻🌻🌼🌺🌹
Hello. With all due respect that is not a Staghorn Fern.
The one you were showing was an Elkhorn Fern. = Platycerium Bifurcartum.
Staghorn. = Platycerium Superbum. 🤝🙏
not a word on what to feed them
I use a seaweed/fish solution once a month April-Sept. and pour a bucket of the solution over the top of a very large plant. An alternative would be a seaweed/fish fert. foliar feed.
Mine are happy with just the run off from the tree they hang in
Lon
I found that they like banana peels -
Why are these so popular? I have huge one growing on a tree I’m going to cut down...
Indira Nanan Oh no! Where do you live? Someone would definitely like to take it.
Hello snickers
Mary kay are with a customer? Shut your face I’m shooting a video!
Poor Mary Kay...she's got a cat running around being mischievous...people are calling her on the radio...EXCUSE ME, I'M SHOOTING A VIDEO 😡😡😡
This is an elk horn fern -sorry not a Staghorn fern
I'm sorry I have to disagree ! Very hard to grow they will die at fifty degrees