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I have found that for collecting moss a great tool is an artist's (painting) palette knife,(the metal blade,wooden or plastic handle kind)they are very thin,flexible and they come in differing shapes and sizes.I personally haven't had goos experience with trying to grow moss from spores, as I water from above before it can start, or it rains on it. So long as you leave some bare spaces and do not place the moss right up against the trunk it's actually beneficial to the moisture levels and how quickly these change, for most trees, some trees like to dry out a bit between waterings for these I would not suggest using moss all the time or using very much of it in equation to the soil surface.

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30-Dec-2005	#4
zen w/ Hippyistic Tendencies Join Date: Jan-2005 Location: Commerce GA (Near Athens) Country: U.S. USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: 7 Posts: 1,799	I have found that for collecting moss a great tool is an artist's (painting) palette knife,(the metal blade,wooden or plastic handle kind)they are very thin,flexible and they come in differing shapes and sizes.I personally haven't had goos experience with trying to grow moss from spores, as I water from above before it can start, or it rains on it. So long as you leave some bare spaces and do not place the moss right up against the trunk it's actually beneficial to the moisture levels and how quickly these change, for most trees, some trees like to dry out a bit between waterings for these I would not suggest using moss all the time or using very much of it in equation to the soil surface. __________________ "Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work." ~ Alan Watts (1915-1973)