Collecting & Identifying Moss
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Spring has officially sprung! It's been really nice outside and I just had to get out of the studio and bring you some candid content, from the outdoors. I've also pretty much depleted my moss reserves, so this is the perfect opportunity to stock up. Let's get mossy!
I know this one doesn't go as in depth on identifying moss as some of you may have liked, but I quickly realized this would have way more of a project than I anticipated, if I had. That said, I'll definitely do a dedicated video on it when I can find the time. Until then, I hope that the tips I gave in this video will help you at least get started.
For those of you wondering, most and I mean most mosses will work in a terrarium or vivarium. The propagation method that's linked below closely resembles that of a terrarium. With it, I've been able to grow everything except for some (not all) haircap and pillow mosses. That's why I don't recommend them. Additionally, the only one from this video that's hit or miss is hypnum moss. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I pretty much always has success with the others though.
Propagate Moss: • How to Propagate Your ...
I get asked a lot how to grow moss and I usually reference that video because there's not much to it. Light + Water = Happy Patches of Moss! Don't over think it. Aside from thoroughly cleaning them before use and trimming over time, there's not much else I do for them other than that. More light and more water is better than not enough. However, mosses are very resilient and will adapt to various conditions, regardless of the type.
I think that about covers everything I can think of for the moment. If you have any further questions, be sure to leave a comment and I'll do my best to get back to you! Also for additional content like this, photos of my terrariums, projects sneak peeks and more, follow me on Instagram @SerpaDesign. / serpadesign
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It felt so good to finally get outside again and bring you some more candid content! 100% voice overs was never intended to be the norm, but that's what happened when I moved because of noise pollution. Do you like a more candid video like this or the voice overs? Definitely will always do both styles, but I'm just curious what you think. Let me know!
I do think the candid videos feel more like we're right with you, but the voice overs are effective in their own right. Both allow us to follow along with what you're saying- it's just the slightest bit more fun when it feels like we're getting horticultural lessons in person during the candid videos.
I appreciate the feedback! I think I want to do more like this and then reserve the voice overs for videos that really need it. Some topics are just very involved and I think conveyed best as a voice.
Moss is sooo calming in my opinion
Its mossome!! ;) thanx 4 not sharing noise pollution...
I think voice overs should only be used if environmental sounds are so disruptive, the viewing not enjoyable or the message isn't discernible. And of course, if the narration is totally botched and filled with errors. For some reason, UA-cam viewers have gotten crazy with the quality of video demands over the past few years, treating regular folks as if they should have content resembling that of a major production studio. A dog barking in the background, a passing vehicle, make the event more real. Hearing you spread ballast in a tank or having pumps hum is how it really is.
to be honest, after I started making terrariums, I can't walk 2 feet outside without looking down and saying: "that's a nice piece of moss"
that's the same as me. I literally spend my walks looking down on the forest floor for interesting vegetation - I end up with way to many plants and debris.
Lmao same
I bought a bonsai 6 months ago and I saw so many pictures with moss underneath them and I wanted some so bad and now I do the same exact thing.
😂😂 I’m glad that I’m not the only one!
I just wanted to write it , and I seen your comment , and I understood , that only me like that;)
find you a man who loves you like tanner loves his moss
Yes
Is he GAYYYYY
Luckily I have found one! He’s the perfect husband, he even aquaecapes with me and helps me collect things for our tanks when we go for walks. He’s the type of man to hold the door open for me, and treats me very great!! I hope everyone finds this kind of love ❤️ this is the only person I feel I’ve ever truly been in love with.
Okay, done bragging 😬🤐🤣❤️
@@nickybee800 Then I guess he is a Lucky Bee 🐝.. Mrs .Bee.. haha 😆🤩🙂..
@@zachcoppola4641 nope! He has a wife
As a biology teacher, mosses and the rest of bryophytes is by far the coolest plant group since they are the link of land plants to algae. Very informative video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
@@SerpaDesign i hope i can built my own terrarium for my class. Thank for this video.
@@MrTruthislight Absolute nonsense. It is, of course, a remarkably well-supported and predictive scientific theory. If he is not teaching it as such, he is not doing his job.
Cyber Pleb its not
@@yousifa4002 What a remarkable argument. Well done!
I laughed so hard when he said take only what you need just in case others collectors find this spot. The world would be a better place if it was full of crazies like us.
Can you imagine that awkward moment when you stumble across another moss collector
🤪
@@michaeltrent2599 cool
@@michaeltrent2599 "can i offer you some sphagnum, in these trying times?" 😆
Really liked how you mention you don't take more than you need and also try to cover up bare patched when you remove some. I'm exactly the same way.
M O S S E T I Q U E T T E
There’s an art to collecting moss xD
As someone who lives in the city in a very hot country, I’m so jealous of the variety of moss you can find in your backyard.
I feel for you. I'm not a city dude.
i hope moss can be bought tho.
Levi ML I can find cushion moss for sale in my country but have yet to see any other type of moss.
@@wxlurker in my country they only sell dried sphagnum moss..
@wx you live in singapore?
I'm really lichen this video.
thomas this is an amazing comment
Respect
😳🤣
Wow you're good. Way to plant one on us.
@EpicUndead HAHA
The dormant moss tip is fantastic, i've noticed the difference but never related it to that. I wish you could follow this video up with a mold management one.
Tanner I don't know you personally and I just found your channel like 10 mins ago but I hope you have a swell day lad
Really loved the style of this video, it seemed like you were really excited and it got me all excited to go look for moss!
your fondness of moss is really contagious
Man Serpa dude you're a kindred spirit. Mosses and ferns and water just lifts me up so so much. I love love LOVE it! I want to do what you do. I live in the U.P. so it's a very long winter and I get SAD but having green, especially mosses & ferns in the house... Man I just know it would help me a ton. I'm so grateful for your channel. 🙏
I would love to see some content about collecting other plants (especially non-aquatic ones, there are plenty of videos for those) from the wild and making sure they stay alive inside. Great videos!
i find woodland plants hard to keep alive grown in pots. i tried with the native violets growing around my house, they were gone immediately. but i do have success if they stay outside in the shade. i guess cool temps and circulating breezes are very important. mosses however have simple requirements as long as they are kept in a closed terrarium. i love the lichens growing on tree branches. they seem to need high light and can dry out and go dormant, waiting for the next rain.
You’re so awesome and free. Thank you.
Probably the most underrated but extremely beautiful and very resilient plants !* Love Moss*
if you're a stone and you're trying to collect moss remember the most important rule is to not roll
@em es its obviously too late to tell you not to roll so i guess just go collect moss
🤣
Haha
Hahah
You have a good attitude you bring a smile to my face and make me feel good all day it is so beautiful the things that you do with the terrariums. It makes me feel happy that some man has a special place for plants. Great video keep up the good work God bless you
Just when I thought I didn’t need more hobbies, I stumbled across your channel & I’m totally obsessed!! 💓💓💓💓
I just move to Alaska after living in the desert my whole life. I've never seen so much moss! I'm so excited to use this video to identify all of the different types!
"professional moss collector"
i would love to see that on a resume
LOL
X-D
You’re awesome dude. I’ve been collected moss with my pops since I was a lil guy. Always loved tiny forests of rain deer lichen too lol. Thanks for making great videos!
I loved this. Felt like an outdoor nature class! definitely throw in more of these candid vids along with your usual narration vids. both are great. whichever best fits the content. nice to see your face! :)
*Now many of you are going to find moss in your back yard.*
**Laughs in desert**
You assume that I actually have a yard.
Sad terraria hours
Lol!
I really like your perspective of the surroundings. For most people its just some plants and moss together but you see something special in it and it really looked nice actually. Nature is art :)
Yes! I've been wanting to build on terrariums and started to study about moss, then this video happened. It really helps man. Thank You Very Much!!!
I would love to see you do a video on the life cycle of moss. It really is fascinating.
Right from the start of this vid i can feel your enthusiasm. you legit seem happier.
Great video, love mosses and exploring to find new patches i like to harvest from. Some good info here as well, can never know enough when you're identifying things!
Love, love, love❣️You, your artistic sense, your passion for living things--Priceless! Thanks SO much for sharing!Never feel pressured--take breaks when you need to! And still so happy for you and your betrothed!
I've always been an admirer of moss its a joy to see this video. Many thanks for making it.
As a maker of living dioramas in Seattle, I really appreciate this video and value it as an excellent resource, not only on various common mosses but, the moss morality of conservation of any local resource ( Tanner calls it " M O S S E T I Q U E T T E" in a comment reply below ), even in your own yard! Great job, sir! In addition, the candid format is great for this type of survey because it makes the viewer feel he is just walking next to you as you give someone a tour!
This video basically shows the benefits living near a forest
Aaaaaahforests.wonderful
I have most of these mosses growing along my drainage ditch in my front yard and next to the road.
I live inside of one so I am above all
Never thought MOSS could be so gorgeous :)Thx for sharing !
I've been binge watching your videos to prepare for my first terrarium haha. Super excited to get it put together, thanks for all of the hard work Tanner!!
Hah, same here! :D
Great video - and not just because of the content. The way you conveyed the info was smooth and really easy to follow - left the viewer (me!) intrigued and looking for my shoes to get searching in the woods. Looking forward to that ID video - thanks!
I appreciate that! I'm definitely much better behind that the camera than I was in the early days... makes me cringe!
I think you should consider getting crazy about lichens too
i absolutely adore lichen and it erks me so that the air quality where i live basically only supports common green shield lichen and a few grey-ish look alikes, i suppose you could grow them in an air controlled terrarium but i imagine either having to buy air scrubbers or canned air would prove very costly.
@@ourorboros2 ooooo really? But I'm gonna try grow some reindeer ones in terrarium, hope it does well. I heard they love moisture so I'm hopeful.
I was recently at 8000ft on a mountain in Montana and Found a single rock all by itself covered in all different color lichens. Looked like it was a rock covered in coral in a reef. Absolutely blew my mind how beautiful it was.
I’m glad I’m not the only person with an obsession with moss
I actually collected an excellent selection of mosses here in the Phoenix park Dublin today, destined for a couple of terrariums. Really lush and beautiful colours. I love the stuff you're doing man. Keep the passion going.
Oh this is perfect! You never fail to impress!
Your knowledge is incredible. It's clear you love what you do, I don't know of anyone else who could talk about moss with such passion.
Mossin Annie would give him a run for his money. Look her up, she's a gem
Thank you for all the videos you do. I have been watching you for sometime now. I love all of your methods and your style. Right now I'm working on rebuilding all of my turariums and everything that goes with it. I have lost all of my plants, turariums and aquariums. In a house fire last month. Thank you for the inspiration.
Aw man, I'm so sorry for your misfortune. I hope that you and your family can make it through that. I glad that you're enjoying my videos though. Take care!
@@SerpaDesign my family is strong. Just keep up the videos all of your fans love them.
I recently started collecting moss for my garden. Now i'm obsessed. Thanks for your video.
Tanner, I dig the extra effort you put into editing in the sounds and other FX. Adds to the professional vibe - 20k gang here this is your big year Tanner
Recently, the snow has been melting in my area. I have collected a few samples of the local moss and have been cultivating it at home. just wanted to say thank you for your videos, they are a great help. KEEP BEING AWESOME, I'll keep watching!
Hey Tanner! I was wondering if you’d address common terrarium problems like mold and algae, apologies if you’ve already done that I might have missed a video!
I really like this guy and this channel. The way he puts it all together and just his personality in general is rather awesome. I've been watching this channel for a long while but more out of just the cool environments he puts together. Just pure fascination. However, my viewing reasons have now changed and I'm about to embark on creating my own Vivarium with some enclosed Terrariums in mind as well too...so binge watching has been a thing as of late. Thank you for being you and thank you for this channel.
Its 2:33am....and I wanna go outside and collect moss. You have influenced me to really start making my own terrariums. Ive already collected and prepared containers Thank you 😂💛
i’ve collected the plants but i haven’t been able to find containers!
@@severalpottedplants4722 try places like Michaels, hobby lobby, home Depot and lowes! 🙂
Moss love! Moss is incredible and sacred. Thank you for doing this video. Might want to note that often there are millipedes where you find moss and salamanders too. Just keep your eyes open out there folks 💗
As others have mentioned, a good vid would be mold management and how to make sure there aren't any mites or parasites in the collected moss.
Thanks for identify the moss. I need to use a macro lens to really see it leaf.
0:24 THE HOLY MOSS
Lol
I made my first terrarium with local mosses in a wide mouth mason jar and it's already grown like CRAZY in two weeks. Thank you for the inspirational videos and for this one explaining what I found!
A little tip.... when you harvest moss its much easier if you compress the moss and push it into itself to bunch it up as you scoop with the hand underneath. By compressing it into itself, rather than pulling on it which pulls it apart, you're able to keep the moss in a nice neat mound/ball without it falling apart. Moss actually compacts very well without damage.
I loved collecting mosses as a kid and having terrariums with all found in the wild ingredients :)
Oh nice 👍 hope I find a guide like this for European mosses
I'm in Europe and the guide seems to apply
@@Paravetje thanks :) that's good.
There's got to be English moss nutters out there who've published books on the subject. Generally still a better source of info than the internet in most cases
These videos are amazing, educational and interesting! Thank you so much for sharing your tips & tricks!
Wow. I was just thinking of growing a moss in my own house earlier, and here u are uploads a video about moss 😂 i love the timing
I knew you were looking for it. 😉
You are from Disney channel
I love the spring. I live watching the witlow grass when it I just coming up. I live the misses and the teeny tiny plants just coming up. I love all the tiny worlds right under our noses!
This is like having Batman doing a document of the bats in his cave. Awsm.
I like how passionate you seem about moss - but having seen all you do with it I can understand why. And to be honest, they're gorgeous little plants...
Anyway, you've caused me a lot of work. Because of you I rescued an old, beat-up 4½-gallon tank from the trash and have started renovating it (getting rid of brown old silicone, removing the rim etc.) with the plan to make a small waterfall tank using mainly local wood, stone and mosses, and a few non-Danish aquatic and terrestrial plants as accents.
So basically I have two washing-up basins of moss on my window sill, one including a 4"-diametre mossy branch that will be part of the structure. You can never have too much moss, right?
And I KNOW my little fun project will look nothing like something made by a person with your experience and skill, but just planning it has been so entertaining that even if it's a complete failure it will have been worth it. And who knows; it might end up looking pretty if I throw enough moss at it?
Liverworts are really fascinating and are one of the oldest species of land-growing plants on the planet. There are liverwort fossils dating back 473 million years.
This has to be one of my favorite videos ever. I hope you can make a follow-up with other plants for a native biotope.
Set it up from dark moss to light moss in a terrarium.. thatd be cool
Thats a great idea! I might do that if I can find a variety of mosses
Looked up moss out of curiosity, but I’m now invested.
Edit: also sometimes I see moss in someone’s backyard and I want to take it, but I don’t want to ruin their garden
Living in utah i am definitely a bit jealous of the ability you have to find mosses.
Saaame. Though northern Utah does have a kind or two in the mountains :)
Again absolutely fantastic video and I’m totally watching the next one on propagation
0:20 minutes in and I'm already hardcore relating to everything in this video
Love your vids and your positivity!
PLEASE MORE OF THIS VIDEOS PLEASEEEEEEEE
I'm glad you made this i have been looking for some detailed info for moss for quite sometime and gave up after not finding anything to help tell which type is which. this helped a ton
Thanks so much for this super helpful video! Can't wait to get started collecting mosses!
Can you please name your first child Sphagnum. If you haven't decided to do that already.
Sphagnum “Moss” Tanner’s Son.
My college has a bunch of buildings that provide shade and the area is constantly raining so theres more moss than grass. I love how the moss grows between the bricks on the footpath, makes it prettier
super helpful - living close to the equator there is lots to look at - this is a good start
I live on Long Island NY...!!! I have a lot of moss in my yard... Do you recommend it cause I’ve been doing aquascape’s since I started watching your videos... You are awesome...!!!
Pulling up more is odly satisfying
I’m not going to tell you about moss types today.
Nevermind, let’s talk about moss types today.
But let’s go into it some other day.
*starts going through moss types*
What an amazing variety of mosses thank you for sharing
maaan I was soo hoping you would do a video on moss! you JUST inspired me couple of weeks ago to bring patches of mooss inside do propagate and experiment with it! love moss! i wanna live in a moss ball now. 😍
Hey, real quick question about keeping terrariums. Recently (about a month ago) I created a small terrarium using an old mason jar and some plastic wrap for the lid. I watched several of your videos beforehand and did some of my own research in order to make my terrarium as good as possible. It has since been doing quite nicely, although I have now noticed that algae has started to grow within the false bottom/aquifer. I haven’t been able to find any information online on how exactly this may impact my terrarium and have not seen the topic mentioned in any of your videos. If you, or any other commenter, could shed some light on what I should do (if anything) then that would be much appreciated.
P.S. I love your channel. Keep up the good work!
I got you on my community tab.
Only after watching you for years do I go to the pitch pine bog near me and collect this type of thing. Appreciate all you’ve taught me. My animals do too.
I'm so excited you posted this because tomorrow I'm going hiking and collecting materials to make my first terrarium!! I have an awesome glass kimchi jar that I just finished that I'm going to use! Thank you for always being so thorough and educational!!!
My brother and I went on a moss collecting expedition, we got 2 and a half containers of moss! It’s for the Christmas gift he’s making for his secret Santa person, so I’m helping him make a “moss terrarium kit” from scratch.
A while ago I had a species of moss in my backyard, ever since my mom hired a landscaper, they’ve vanished and what’s left is a different species that I hate using for terrariums! As of recently. I figured out that a very small amount of the previous moss survived! A very small strip of it is growing on the back of an old piece of wood from a garden bed. So now I need to do what I can to grow it.
Excellent for identifying the moss. Thanks
This validates my love for healthy forest moss. I love when it flowers💚
I had trouble getting liverwort to stay alive and spread. However I discovered through experimenting that creating a slope with whatever substrate preferably something well draining/sandy and placing it on said slope really helps it take off.
Hi. It was a great documentary on a collecting adventure. I especially like the personality you infuse in your videos. Thanks for sharing. Keep them coming. Regards, Mike
Your voice sounds so much more animated than when you are indoors.
That makes me understand how miserable you must have been at a full time office job.
I think a beard would look good on you 🧔🏽
And a new haircut too
No way! It grows in patchy and I can't stand on it feels on my face.
Tried it and hated it. This is the most practical, even if something else would look better.
@@SerpaDesign How about a moss beard? Would go great with the green hat.
Late to the party instagram.com/p/BVfRxrHlHr4/?
Your awesome man. I'm learning so much from you. Thanks for doing these videos. I never could get the difference between mosses. But you managed to do it in this short video. Thanks
Learned a lot about mosses. Helps me identify different mosses in my yard.
This video came out at the perfect time, I already planned on going searching for moss this afternoon!
Nice! Happy hunting!
Digging the plant identification!
Aching for spring here in NE Iowa! I love moss and thank you for this video. You're knowledge is priceless!
I collect outdoor moss, clean it real well to remove all soil and use it in my shrimp tanks and fish tanks. I collected all summer and laid it under my porch to have a moss carpet. It turned out quite well. I got most of mine in the woods, tree and rock. Lush ad full. @2:40 that's mainly what I use. The bog moss is great for my aquariums, produces alot of oxygen. Liked, subbed and hit the moss bell.
Mouth was drooling the entire time, wish I could eat some, with my friend, together
These vids are always a treat. Your editing is as beautiful and professional as your terrarium builds. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the kind words!
I had grabbed a few tiny patches of moss and put them on a rock in a Tupperware container back in October to try to observe how it grows and establish a potential source for a future project. It looks like very tiny emerald haircap, or star moss. I think it had the brown spore stick things, but it's just so tiny. It's growing well, I have it in a bright window, and I'm seeing growth down the sides of the rock too.