Growing Dicranum - tap water lethal

Subject: Re: BRYONET: Growing Dicranum
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:39:03 +0000
From: Ron Porley <Ron.Porley@English-Nature.Org.UK>
To: <bryonet-l@mtu.edu>

BRYONET

Phil's recommendation to look at Michael Fletcher's article is your best
bet. But I would also add that in my experience tap water is lethal to
bryophytes - all my cultures, or just trying to grow something on to
mature capsules or whatever, failed miserably until I used
rainwater....then success!
Ron Porley