An easy way to keep and propagate terrarium plants: keeping moss

If you want to propagate terrarium plants, I recommend you keeping moss.

Take Saxifraga stolonifera for example, I have lots of baby Saxifraga stolonifera self produced in terrariums and some from my flower pots.

I prepared several sheets of moss. Any kinds of moss will work. It does not matter the moss grow well or not, dry or fresh.

I put the cutted bay plants on the moss and the only thing I need to do is keeping the moss live.

Here is how to keep the moss sheets:

1) place them in shade.

2) spray watering them for 5 minutes, 3 times per day. In my case, I use a auto sprayer with timer to do it.

Please note: I am in tropical. In summer, there are some really hot and dry days. I In other seasons, it rains a lots. I do not worry about lower temprature.

If your area is dry and cold, a mini greenhouse will work. Again, in summer, please place it in shade.

If you want it in door, use a large terrarium and put some soil and moss in and that is a simple, low-maintenance propagation station.

I use both: several large terrariums in my office and moss sheet in trays in shade in countryside.

Terrarium plants are basically tropical shade plants and humidity matters much than soil.

By this way, I propagate creeping figs (cut a string), various ferns, fittonia (there will be roots growing out), begonia (a piece of fallen leaves will be ok), mini orchids, peacock ferns (cutted string, and it grows roots in moss sheet), etcs.

This is why I can always have suitable plants. In fact, I have more than need that I need to sell some or give it to people.

I recommend hypnum moss and they are suitable for open air and they keep green.

The following is a short clips how I "planted" Saxifraga stolonifera on the moss sheet. It is that easy.

The following shows how it turns out in 3 weeks. The first sheet is cushion moss (some part are yellow because it is in open air and it is hard to keep them best in open air). The second is hypnum moss. You will see all kinds of plants I placed on it. I also have ferns on moss sheet and will show you them all later.

Here are some photos.

To be updated.