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Re potting/mounting stag/elk horn

myclayjunglemyclayjungle Posts: 162
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I'm not sure if these are stag or elkhorns, but they'd prefer to be out of these pots.  I know they can be mounted on wood or a log, but how would you water them in the house like that without it going all over the floor?  Are there any other ways to re-pot/mount which makes watering easy and non-messy?
Coastal Suffolk/Essex Border- Clay soil

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My mum was very keen on houseplants,  she had hers mounted on a cleft? in a piece of wood,  lots of moss wired in there and sprayed it keeping the moss damp. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    edited July 2023
    We planted quite a few of these amongst the trees in the Sky Garden in London. We wired them to the tree trunks with a backing of moss. They were positioned near the misters where the humidity was higher...so similar to Lyns suggestion. No idea if they're still there but they survived for the duration of our tenure.

    Mine at home is in a hanging pot and i dunk it in a bucket of rainwater once a month. If i were to change its container/position i'd likely sink a hardwood branch into a pot and wire it to that with a few other arboreal species, perhaps amongst my monstera. Watering would be via spray.

    Another option would be to perhaps attempt to Kokedama them?!
  • myclayjunglemyclayjungle Posts: 162
    Thanks for the ideas. I was hoping there would be some type of wall mount which could be watered- but has a catcher at the bottom to stop it going everywhere.

    @Lyn- what you do mean by your mum mounting hers on a cleft?  Do you just mean in the bent part of wood?
    Coastal Suffolk/Essex Border- Clay soil
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    To water them you take them outside and spray them with a hose, or into the shower and spray them with the shower. They cope with drying out between waterings quite well, just make sure they get drenched every 1 or 2 weeks.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    myclayjungle said:
    Thanks for the ideas. I was hoping there would be some type of wall mount which could be watered- but has a catcher at the bottom to stop it going everywhere.

    @Lyn- what you do mean by your mum mounting hers on a cleft?  Do you just mean in the bent part of wood?
    Yes,  she found a piece of tree wood,  like driftwood that had a right angle bend and wired it with the moss to that,  I do remember her putting it in a bowl of rainwater occasionally as McRazz said. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    A quick google shows loads of pallet type creations but all of them are lacking any kind of catcher/dish, as you say.

    I think maybe you need to get creative...

    Perhaps you could cut the bottom off a plastic milk bottle to create a square dish, glue/nail this to a board to sit below the fern. You could disguise this by glueing some sphagnum moss over the dish to hide it, then mount the fern above. Any excess water could collect in the dish and wick back up to the fern via the moss...
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    They are happy in pots and don't need to be mounted. I saw a specimen that was as big as a patio table in our local nursery and it was kept in a pot.

    If you keep them potted you could construct a wall hanger to put the pot in and then take it out to water.
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