A few weeks ago I bought a resurrection plant, Selaginella lepidophylla. Whizz for spikemosses! These are the strange plants that thrive in southern Texas and Mexico. In drought periods they appear to completely dessicate, rolling up into a little ball until they come into contact with water again. Hours of amusement (well, okay, about 20 minutes in my case) can be had bunging it in a bowl of water and watching it unfurl.
It really kiffs though, and after an evening of stinking out the kitchen, and a night of stinking out the back hall, it was relegated to the growhouse, where it's stayed on the basis that if it dries out I can just stick it in water again. It's definitely not coming in the house again until winter, by which time it should have lost the festering stench of death it's carrying around with it.
What I really want to know is how to get my plant (which looks like the image above) to look really lush and green again, like in this picture. I'm thinking seed compost, friendly mycorrhizae to boost the puny root system (I know, it's meant to be puny, they're practically epiphytes), daily misting, sheltered from wind. For an explanation of how it survives droughts, or peer-reviewed papers on beneficial extracts obtained from Selaginella the internet cannot be faulted. For how to grow the little blighters successfully, the net sucks.
It really kiffs though, and after an evening of stinking out the kitchen, and a night of stinking out the back hall, it was relegated to the growhouse, where it's stayed on the basis that if it dries out I can just stick it in water again. It's definitely not coming in the house again until winter, by which time it should have lost the festering stench of death it's carrying around with it.
What I really want to know is how to get my plant (which looks like the image above) to look really lush and green again, like in this picture. I'm thinking seed compost, friendly mycorrhizae to boost the puny root system (I know, it's meant to be puny, they're practically epiphytes), daily misting, sheltered from wind. For an explanation of how it survives droughts, or peer-reviewed papers on beneficial extracts obtained from Selaginella the internet cannot be faulted. For how to grow the little blighters successfully, the net sucks.
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