Yes, I am a fern junkie, but who isnβt when it comes to t...
Yes, I am a fern junkie, but who isnβt when it comes to the simple, but somehow also intricate, beauty and weirdness of the Resurrection Fern?! My neighbor has this lovely growing on a tree stump in her yard and let me take some to propagate. So excited to watch it grow!! Omg yβall, I have a resurrection fern now! And it was FREE!
Oh, bless you, dear plants. You restore my soul. π±πΏππ₯°π #ResurfectionFern #FernFriends #FREEPLANTS #Freebie
Oh, bless you, dear plants. You restore my soul. π±πΏππ₯°π #ResurfectionFern #FernFriends #FREEPLANTS #Freebie
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@SwiftWolfsbane Right?! Totally agree. I audibly gasped when I first saw it (Iβm a little dramatic). It has such gorgeous hues of blue and green and a little yellow. The fronds are more compact than other ferns. I need to find out how she got it growing on this stump because she has no hint of a green thumb yet this is a full, happy, healthy plant. It must be an easy plant since she likely doesnβt even water it.
I have a large piece of a tree that my husband dug up years ago and I was going to use it to grow moss on but I think Iβll use it for this instead, and see if this will grow on it. The spot she has it in is quite shaded, too. I sure do love true shade plants!
I have a large piece of a tree that my husband dug up years ago and I was going to use it to grow moss on but I think Iβll use it for this instead, and see if this will grow on it. The spot she has it in is quite shaded, too. I sure do love true shade plants!
@LaneyLichen I LOVE ferns but canβt grow them. I currently have a maiden hair fern that arrived perfect and beautiful and is fading terribly. Iβm devastated and I keep moving it around to figure out where itβs going to be happiest. I have a pebble tray, I mist it, it was in my bathroom now itβs under a grow light. I just donβt know what to do.
@SwiftWolfsbane Oh that sucks! But thereβs a reasonβ¦ just have to solve the riddle, right?
Do you always keep your maidenhair fern inside? Do you have any good mostly shady areas outside? Since youβre also on the east coast, you should have plenty of humidity for it outside. I think ferns generally do best outside, at least for me anyway. I wouldnβt think it would really like the grow light either, unless itβs just getting no sunlight at all. They donβt need a lot of sun and too much sun makes them look really unhappy.
What size is your maidenhair? Have you repotted it since you got it? Can you post some pictures here? Ferns like a lot of room, from my experience, so I would repot it, if you havenβt already, and trim away any brown bits. Then give it an Epsom salt soak, which is really good for ferns! Look online for the instructions.
Or you could also add 2 tablespoons Epsom salt to a gallon of warm water and water your ferns with it every few months. I think the soak, especially doing it overnight, works best.
Do you always keep your maidenhair fern inside? Do you have any good mostly shady areas outside? Since youβre also on the east coast, you should have plenty of humidity for it outside. I think ferns generally do best outside, at least for me anyway. I wouldnβt think it would really like the grow light either, unless itβs just getting no sunlight at all. They donβt need a lot of sun and too much sun makes them look really unhappy.
What size is your maidenhair? Have you repotted it since you got it? Can you post some pictures here? Ferns like a lot of room, from my experience, so I would repot it, if you havenβt already, and trim away any brown bits. Then give it an Epsom salt soak, which is really good for ferns! Look online for the instructions.
Or you could also add 2 tablespoons Epsom salt to a gallon of warm water and water your ferns with it every few months. I think the soak, especially doing it overnight, works best.
@LaneyLichen Ok so yes, I do always keep it inside. I guess my only Outside option would be right outside my door. We have a little landing before you go downstairs to the complex. I live in a condo complex and so I have a balcony which is full sun all day S. Facing way too hot for anything to survive out there and then just out my front is a covered area by my front door, no sun at all. I DO have a Boston fern hanging out there and doing ok.
I put my maiden hair back in the bathroom away from the grow light because all of his leaves turned a light brown color which I read was too much light exposure. There is a small north facing window there that gets a little bit of afternoon sun. I did repot him in fern soil and went up about an inch in pot size. for reference, this is when I first got them and this is what he looks like now. I did trim away all the dead stuff when I moved him back into the bathroom
I put my maiden hair back in the bathroom away from the grow light because all of his leaves turned a light brown color which I read was too much light exposure. There is a small north facing window there that gets a little bit of afternoon sun. I did repot him in fern soil and went up about an inch in pot size. for reference, this is when I first got them and this is what he looks like now. I did trim away all the dead stuff when I moved him back into the bathroom
I get it, I l live in a townhouse condo complex. Though we actually have little yard spaces here, plus the patio/pergola, and balconies. I have only a couple of plants inside. I keep getting plants to have indoors but they just seem so much happier outside.
I thought that you could maybe just keep it outside until it is bigger and stronger and then afterwards it may tolerate the inside conditions better.
I recently got two small Maidenhair ferns and I really love them, too! Theyβre just so delicate and beautiful! But mine continually get those brown tips, too, but itβs definitely not getting βtoo much sunβ! Maybe too little. It also gets these yellow leaves a lot so maybe Iβm overwatering a bit. Today Iβll be repotting them together, in one pot, so hopefully that perks them up a little!
I thought that you could maybe just keep it outside until it is bigger and stronger and then afterwards it may tolerate the inside conditions better.
I recently got two small Maidenhair ferns and I really love them, too! Theyβre just so delicate and beautiful! But mine continually get those brown tips, too, but itβs definitely not getting βtoo much sunβ! Maybe too little. It also gets these yellow leaves a lot so maybe Iβm overwatering a bit. Today Iβll be repotting them together, in one pot, so hopefully that perks them up a little!
@SwiftWolfsbane How do you like this fern potting mix? What does it have in it thatβs different from other plant mixes?
@LaneyLichen I canβt really review the potting mix yet because it was my first time using it. it itβs a combination of Peat Moss perlite, lime, pine mulch, sand, and charcoal. I typically make my own for all my other house plants but since I struggle so badly with ferns, I figured let me buy one special. οΏΌ
@SwiftWolfsbane Hey, sorry to take so long to respond. I was gathering some mosses the other night and was bitten on the inside of 3rd toe by a spider! Such an awkward spot. It wiped me out for several days but Iβm much better now.
So what has been going on with your Maidenhairs since we last chatted? Did you try hanging it in the shade landing?
So what has been going on with your Maidenhairs since we last chatted? Did you try hanging it in the shade landing?
@SwiftWolfsbane I thought about you the other day after we had a big storm and my husband, Justin, came home with several large broken tree branches covered in Resurrection Fern. ππ₯°π
Justin saw a huge tree branch fall and stopped to pick up all of the branches for me. After 20 years he really knows my love language!
So now Iβd like your help with figuring out what to do with all of it. I have the pieces I got before from my neighbor on a large piece of wood so hopefully itβll attach itself to it. For this new batch, I thought it could be cool to try to get it growing on our fence and balconies, though Iβm not really sure if it only grows on living wood.
Anyway, here are some pictures. π₯°ππΏπ±π
I hope youβre doing well!
Justin saw a huge tree branch fall and stopped to pick up all of the branches for me. After 20 years he really knows my love language!
So now Iβd like your help with figuring out what to do with all of it. I have the pieces I got before from my neighbor on a large piece of wood so hopefully itβll attach itself to it. For this new batch, I thought it could be cool to try to get it growing on our fence and balconies, though Iβm not really sure if it only grows on living wood.
Anyway, here are some pictures. π₯°ππΏπ±π
I hope youβre doing well!
@LaneyLichen my maidenhair bit the dust. I trimmed it all the way back and put a Ziploc over it.π€·πΌββοΈ. Letβs not talk about itβ¦ Onto your husbandβs amazing find, that is just so cool and I am certainly the last person to be giving Fern advice lol, but I canβt wait to see what you do with it. Howβs the neighbors cutting going?
@SwiftWolfsbane Oh dang, Iβm so sorry! That sucks. Youβll get it figured out eventually! Itβs good that you didnβt throw it out because ferns can almost always come back.
The first batch of resurrection I got are on this piece of wood we dug up years ago and Iβve never known what to do with it. Iβll take a picture tomorrow. Iβm still not sure what Iβm doing with all of the new ones I have. There are lots of spots I could put them in around my yard, I just want to be able to see them.
The first batch of resurrection I got are on this piece of wood we dug up years ago and Iβve never known what to do with it. Iβll take a picture tomorrow. Iβm still not sure what Iβm doing with all of the new ones I have. There are lots of spots I could put them in around my yard, I just want to be able to see them.