RE: Propagating Lycopodium cernuum

Keith,

With my only success with lycopods sofar, I didn't do anything more than this: I put a less than 4cm long top of H. squarrosa in a basket full of peat moss. Didn't even keep it moist (the ferns that now and then germinated on the basket dried to death), but I placed the basket over a permanent layer of (increasingly green and slimy) water. Now, after three years, it's still alive and definitely growing, though still unbranched.

I have tried several other species of Lycopodium, but they never survived or even grew, with exception of L. annotinum which I took with an exceptional large quantity of substrate, that even grew a bit before dying. The L. cernuas I also took with plenty substrate but to no avail. The difference between success and failure in my case seems to be the semi-enclodes container with permanently moist air.

Our climate is cool temperate.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ferns@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On Behalf Of
Keith Rogers
Sent: Sat, June 04, 2005 04:05 
To: ferns@hort.net
Subject: RE: [ferns] Propagating Lycopodium cernuum


...

I know of no tassel which actually grows from a cutting, layering yes, but
not from a cutting just stuck in like a hoya or fuscha.  Tassels will stay
alive looking in this manner for up to a year so never buy a one stemmed
tassel unless you see roots inside the pot.

...

If so they may have layering potential like the epiphytes.

Keith






-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ferns@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of Larry
Shone
Sent: Saturday, 4 June 2005 5:46 AM
To: ferns@hort.net
Subject: Re: [ferns] Propagating Lycopodium cernuum

Weird, I've never heard of vegetative reproduction other than perhaps
division of the rhizome. I wouldnt think cuttings would work.
Larry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jolanda" <filices@pixie.co.za>
To: "Ferns@Hort. Net" <ferns@hort.net>
Cc: <p.del@iafrica.com>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:46 PM
Subject: [ferns] Propagating Lycopodium cernuum


> Hi Fernatics,
>
> I received a question on propagating Lycopodium cernuum from cuttings. I
> have not had any success with it, therefore my answer can only be what
> the books say. However, I know that there are some of you who do this
> successfully. My question: How does one grow L. cernuum from cuttings
> (rooted tips)?
>
> Frondly regards
>
> Jolanda Nel
> South Africa
>
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