RE: artificial trees

Hi Wim and others

I have also used wire netting made into a 4 in round and filled with sphagnum
moss or old willow roots to grow epiphytes.  This wire only lasts a few years,
stainless would be better, but expensive.

To use PVC as a strengthen tube, it would need to have some method to hold
the sphagnum to the pipe.  Perhaps wire or stainless netting would do the
job.

Yes the PVC I mentioned is used here to grow strawberries and would be useful
for small ferns too.

Keith


>-- Original Message --
>Subject: RE: [ferns] artificial trees
>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:17:54 +0200
>From: "Winter, Wim de" <Wim.dewinter@wisl.nl>
>To: <ferns@hort.net>
>Reply-To: ferns@hort.net
>
>
>Keith,
>
>The result of what you describe is much like the terracotta earthenware
dovecots
>that are commercially sold here as "strawberry pots" (see for shape, but
>apparently different material http://www.potvis.org/Gallery_2_4.html). You
>remind me that I still wanted to try them for fern use.
>
>The difference with the proposed method is that the plants only can crop
>out from your predifined cups, at least, I suppose the won't grow over the
>pvc outside. Also, the mortar/peat outside might look more attractive even
>when not overgrown.
>
>Wim0
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keith Rogers [k*@iprimus.com.au]
>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 09:13 
>To: ferns@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [ferns] artificial trees
>
>
>Hi Wim
>
>Forget Mortar, it appears not to be a concrete suggestion!!
>
>Use 4 in or 6in PVC Sewer pipe for an erect pipe perhaps 3 or 4 ft long.
>
>You could just do a series of cuts in the pipe 3 or 4 inches long with a
>hacksaw around the circumference in varying positions.
>
>Warm it up bending the upper in and the lower out, this forms a say half
>cup
>shape.
>The problem is if you put the pipe in the oven to real hot, the lot becomes
>pliable.
>Heating with a blow torch, burns.
>Perhaps a hair drier would work.
>
>Clean up the rough edges with a file and sandpaper.
>
>Get a PVC cap, add a larger base for support, cut drain holes in it and
glue
>onto bottom.
>
>The contents is easy, use sphagnum moss.
>
>Kindest regards
>
>Keith Rogers
>Mannum  South Australia
>
>Keith's Fern Page is at
>www.lm.net.au/~kerogers/
>Supporting the Fern Society of South Australia on
>www.chariot.net.au/~saufern/
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Winter, Wim de" <Wim.dewinter@wisl.nl>
>To: <ferns@hort.net>
>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 5:12 AM
>Subject: [ferns] artificial trees
>
>
>> A colleage of mine told me something about constructing artificial trees
>for epiphyte growth. However, he did not know any details. Maybe some of
>you
>do?
>>
>> It starts with a pvc drainpipe. This is enveloped with a mixture of mortar
>and peat (1:2 ?). Litthe holes in the pipe allow water from the pipe's
>interior to moisten the outside substratum. Cups could be shaped in the
>mortar to allow for easier planting.
>>
>> It's an intriguing idea, but imagining to construct it, questions arise:
>>
>> - whats the size of the holes?
>> - is the pipe topped of with water, so should it be water tight at the
>bottom end?
>> - is the pipe filled up with any kind of spongy matter?
>> - is 1:2 the correct mortar:peat rate?
>> - isn't the mortar to alkaline for epiphytic species?
>>
>> Any experiences?
>>
>> Wim de Winter
>>
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