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Moss will regrow even 50 years after it was harvested and dried.



and we've got another moss recipe for you; this one was published with the idea of using it to cover the pots themselves. I think it would be a great idea to create a picture of some type on your pot with different mosses or lichens and such.. .

1 cup flour
2 cups buttermilk
2 packages of dried yeast (5 teaspoons)
2 tablespoons corn syrup
1 - 1 1/2 cups of dried, crumbled moss

Mix all of the ingredients together, using a bucket to mix it is fine.
Place the bucket in the sun for three days.
When the mixture is really smelly, brush it liberally on the outside of your clay pot.
After applying moss paint, wrap the pots in plastic and place them in the sun. In 2 weeks the pots will mold and in 6-8 weeks, moss plants will be growing well.

Re the lichen care, it is my understanding that the lichen's main need when it comes to rapid growth is the supply of symbionts that the lichen need to survive. The lichen will spawn and whatnot but the baby mycellium lichens need to find a partner to do the chloroplast work shortly thereafter in order to continue to grow. Symbionts vary but the main one may be cyanobacteria; often found growing as pond scum.

the symbiont that it gets hooked up with can also determine the ultimate shape the lichen will assume..

it would be cool to find a symbiont that would make a bonsai tree grow in a particular shape, Yea?

is bio-engineering allowed in bonsai competitions?