| Houseplant
Cultural
information: These are one of our favorite plants.
They are easy to grow, easy to propagate and great for chronic
over waterers.
Place your "Staghorn Fern" in bright indirect or
filtered light. Keep this soil moist at all times watering daily.
If your plant is mounted on a board... soak the plant in the sink
or a bucket. Feed monthly with a balanced liquid fertilizer. Soak
your mounted "Staghorn" in a bucket of fertilizer
water... then use the water to feed your other plants. The green
or brown paper like layered thing that your plant grows out of is
called a shield. New plants will emerge from the sides of the shield.
To propagate your "Staghorn" take a sharp kitchen
knife and cut out the young plants leaving about a 2" circle
of moss on each pup. Fill the hole in the mother plant with new
moss. Pot the pups in a moss based soil or mount them on a board.
Board mounting is easy. Find a piece of wood you like. Hammer in
about 10 roofing nails in a 12" circle. Fill the circle with
2" of long fibered sphagnum moss. Plant a pup or two in the
moss. Tie a length of waxed or nylon string to one of the nails
and just wind the string back and forth around the nails, creating
a "spider web" fastening the plant to the board.
"Staghorn Ferns" are available as small starter
plants to large mounted specimen plants. Your local garden center
center should have a good selection.
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