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Spanish moss , Tillandsia usneoides , is n’t moss at all . It ’s a monolithic dependency of tiny greenish blooming works related to bromeliads . imagine of it as being kind of like a coral reef fall from your oak tree tree diagram . Contrary to a common belief , Spanish moss is n’t bloodsucking , either . The flora are epiphytic plant , tune plants that do n’t need soil for survival . They take their alimentation from rain and the atmosphere . Spanish moss is very absolvitory , grow wild without anybody ’s helper , and is believed to have evolved in the frigid Andes of Peru .
Step 1
Check with your county prolongation section to determine whether there are any local or country confinement regarding the Department of Transportation of Spanish moss into your arena . incur the plants during springtime or summer .
Step 2
take away the Spanish moss from the shipping cartonful right away if you ordered it so that it wo n’t mold . It will resemble a big mint of Gunter Grass clippings . During the red-hot months of July and August , it should be pack loose in a cardboard box . It will be greyish - green and finger a little dry , which prevents heating plant burn mark while it ’s being transported . In cooler months Spanish moss will probably be light dark-green and a little moist , in a plastic bagful inside the box .
Step 3
Take the Spanish moss outside and overspread it thinly in a shadowed spot right away . Give it a good beverage of piss with a spray from the hosepipe , just like you ’d water your blossom seam . Fluff it up to get air travel circulate through it for a few hour .
Step 4
Take a big smattering of moss and draw out it liberal from the mass . lightly separate the strands with your fingers , and do n’t worry about divulge it . That wo n’t hurt it a spot and will just give you more to spread around .
Step 5
instal the Spanish moss where it will get lots of bright sunshine . Just hang it wherever you want it to farm . Drape gobs and streamers of it on tree branches just as if you were hanging Christmas tinsel . Using a key extension pole is a smashing room to rate Spanish moss in high spot . Be creative and decorate a treillage , fencing , the lamppost , and your mailbox with a minuscule touch of southern appealingness if you require , but tree branch are the good locations for them . If pieces of it come down , just pick them up and substitute them . Wherever you want them , they ’ll acquire .
Step 6
irrigate the Spanish moss again when the sun begins to go down to help it ensure itself to its young home . The best way to do this is to liberally spray the tree ’s branches and leaves and permit it to drop into the moss , actually flow it microscopic nutrients present on the foliage . Never water it in direct sunshine , because Spanish moss will bite just like most other plants will . After initial installation , irrigate it like you do your other flora and lawn during the growing season . If conditions are really dry , give it a deglutition but do n’t keep it wringing squiffy . Spanish moss can go dormant and survive extended dry periods if necessary .
Step 7
find fault up any of the Spanish moss that devolve to the ground , as some of it inevitably will . Just gravel it back up wherever it may have fall from , or it will finally die . If it is growing too thickly someplace , thin it by rend some of it off . Move excesses to wherever you want to " transplant " some moss , give it away , or discard it .
Step 8
Feed your Spanish moss about once a calendar month during the growing time of year , peculiarly if it ’s growing on inanimate physical object . Mix a twofold fistful of organic compost with a Imperial gallon of water and let it plunge for 24 to 48 hour . Strain the liquid into your garden sprayer and coat the moss munificently with it .
Step 9
Prepare your Spanish moss for wintertime by cessation of feeding and watering when sustained temperature begin dropping below 60 degree F. It go abeyant below 50 degrees F , and dies back if it freeze . Do n’t panic , this is natural . If the plant were goodly when they break down dormant , they ’ll survive just fine and return with warmer atmospheric condition . Do keep an eye on it because heavy snow and water ice can drag some of it to the ground . Pick it up right aside and give back it to the chancel of its tree arm .
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