This is the best, most thorough and easy to follow instructions for mounting a staghorn fern I’ve seen to date. Have saved this for when time comes to mount my bambino. Thanks so much. 🙏🏾🙌🏾

I know this old but the most informative out of the many, many mounting vids I’ve watched. Thank you so very much for clear precise steps. I’ve subbed and of course liked

Dude I’ve seen many mounting videos but this has been the best explained step by step video I’ve seen!!

Awesome video! Easy instruction, great advice. Thank you!

Thanks. Very nicely presented. An inspiration to bring my one indoor.

I've seen this plant several times whenever there's a plant expo being held at one of the more popular malls in my area. Now I know what it is called thanks to this video. There are also epiphytic ferns growing wild in my neighborhood but they're Bird's Nest Ferns instead. Maybe I should collect some and do something like this or tie or stick it in one of the trees in my yard next to my turtle pond.

thanks for introducing me to a cool plant I wouldn't have known about otherwise!

Banana peel tends to encourage fruit flies and even harbors fruit fly eggs. I know this from personal experience. You might be better off soaking the staghorn fern in removed aquarium water that hasn't been recently treated with fish mediations. This works great for all "air plants" / epyphites. Aquarium water is great for all potted house plants. It encourages beneficial soil bacteria as well to break down nutritents for the plant's roots uptake.

@TankTested

4 жыл бұрын

Great tips!

@rcookie5128

2 жыл бұрын

BY THE POWER OF AQUAPONICS!

@aroidpapa

Жыл бұрын

Not everyone who has a staghorn fern will have an aquarium.

@mindfulmadeline

Жыл бұрын

So you use fertilizer lol

@colmcgillveray1010

10 ай бұрын

they could get one..lots of of them are given away on craigslist etc. .@@aroidpapa

Excellent demonstration on how to mount. Thank you

looks amazing! Thank you for this super helpful and knowledgeable tutorial!

A lovely video as always!

Wow amazing explanations. You are simply awesome. Lucky I came across your video.

I love this video! I'd love to make one of these but I don't think I have a room bright enough.

Awesome video! Thanks for the tips!!!

That's beautiful, thank you 🙂

@TankTested

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Beautiful!

You could make a wacky DIY deer head on a wall with one of these. Like get a willow weaved Deer head and put the staghorn fern on the top where the horns should be. :P

Super cool idea....

It’s beautiful

Thank you 🙏

Lovely👍🏿🎵...thank you 🌳🐸💦 Greetings from Indonesia🇮🇩💕🎶

Great video. Can they be mounted any time of year?

I had one that got Huge, finally sold it since it was to big for me to handle. Weighed about 148 lbs... it's doubled since I sold it. Covers one wall in friends greenhouse. Great vid Alex. How's the tank coming along?

@TankTested

4 жыл бұрын

Tank is coming along great. There will be updates on it soon. I have friend with staghorns that got to be about that size, but it took 30 years! How long did yours take to outgrow your space?

@robertforrest7956

4 жыл бұрын

@@TankTested when I got it, it was about 2 ft across measuring full size. , I had it 22 yrs till it was to large for my outside wall. It's now about roughly almost 3.5 ft at base diameter. So overall about 6 ft spread now. It's nestled in with orchids on a wall in greenhouse that separates the three temp sections of greenhouse...house is huge in it's own right with cool, intermediate, and warm sections.

@TankTested

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds amazing!

Alex -Looks like Platycerium Hilli Any cultivar on the tag?

interesting piece! i wonder how big it gets

@lanadeltorro7663

3 жыл бұрын

In nature huge!

Have you got a Platycerium wandae

Can we use coconut husk instead of moss

@craiglevy8144

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I just used this with mine a couple of days ago. My neighbors coconut palm shed a few sheets of fiber so I used them and then added a couple of sections of split coconut to fill in where I didn't have enough sheets. I used plastic tape to tie everything together as nylon line wasn't doing a good job binding all the pieces together. It does not look good so my plan is to start removing the tape once it is clear the fern has anchored itself to the wood. I think it will take at least two growing cycles of the shield fronds before I start removibg it. I would have preferred using sphagnum moss from the start but it is not commonly available and is very expensive.

The initial placement on the wood seems too high. Why did you locate it there and not closer to the center or slightly above center?

@farelimm

Жыл бұрын

The larger they grow the more they droop downwards. He was likely compensating for that

I have always heard that the shield is at the top but you are mounting it at the bottom?

@TankTested

4 жыл бұрын

The sterile fronds grow in all directions, it just so happens that the big one was on the bottom at the time I mounted. The critical thing to orient by is the location of new fronds.

Whars the correct position?

Interesting idea, how often do you water it?

@frog55555

2 жыл бұрын

Once a week, obviously depends on area, season, window, temperature. But usually once a week, for 5 or 10 minutes if the soil is too dry.

@unusualaquariumecosystems5805

2 жыл бұрын

@@frog55555 You didn't even author this video??

ello! what happened to the weekly streams?

@TankTested

4 жыл бұрын

I found that they collapsed my channel’s viewership. You can see that videos I post now get a fraction of what past videos did. KZread just punished me too much!

Stop with the banana myth. Pls. Good video otherwise