Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:44:10 +0200
From: Serge Hoste <serge.hoste@rug.ac.be>
To: bryonet-l@mtu.edu
BRYONET
Dear Jenny,
Indoors, I have used the following method with decent success (6 months
without major problems so far, an occasional loss set aside). I use
clear plastic boxes with hermetically closing lid. A patch of moss of 10
cm diameter with little or no substratum left on it, is placed inside
and humidified once with a few cc of water. Overdoing it is the killer.
The patch is realy only as wet (probably less) as when it was collected.
I keep a stack of such boxes on a north facing window.
Outdoors I have used a big flower pot filled with soil straight from the
garden into which the patch is lightly pressed. Thus, I have kept (and
developped sporophytes) of mosses and liverworths alive over long
periods of time under a noth facing awning, watering as little as
possible.
Yours truly,
Serge
--
Prof. Dr. Serge Hoste
Research Group on Solid State Chemistry and Ceramic Superconductors
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry WE06V
University of Ghent
Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
phone 32-9-264 44 41 (-21 secretary)
fax 32-9-264 49 83
email serge.hoste@rug.ac.be
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~shoste/
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