Moss on rocks

Does anybody know how to transplant moss onto pond rocks.I want to add moss on and around the rocks in my pond but i am not sure how to do it . Somebody told me to blend it up with vinegar and spread it on the rocks. Thanks in advance for your help.

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TreeBay

I think if you set up a mist system or sprinkler to hit the moss once in the early morning and again in late afternoon, you'll have more moss than you can deal with in a short time.

We use vinegar to kill moss on bonsai trees, so I don't think that will help you too much. Sometimes a vinegar or muriatic acid wash of a pond will help etch out some of the lime that raises the pH too much.

I wouldn't do that around fish though. So unless your rock is part of a masonry wall, I wouldn't fool with the vinegar.

Regards,

Matt

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We used moss that was growing on the side of our house and simply peeled it off the wall a put it where we wanted it, making sure that some of it was touching water. For moss patches that weren't touching water, we placed a clean candlewick under the moss, and the other end of the wick into the pond. The moss took pretty quick and expanded significantly . . .

. . . until we had a algae bloom and put the algae killer chemical into the water - that majorly damaged the moss . . . duh, we should've figured that would have happened, but too late now . . . Luckily, we still have a good patch or two growing.

lheuer

I've read somewhere but havn't been able to try it out yet (I may of even read it here a while ago) that you can use a blender and blend moss with yogurt and then slap it on your rocks or where ever you want it to go... im not sure if this works just an idea. anyone know for sure?

-Luke

TreeBay

Yes. You can blend chunks of moss with yogurt or buttermilk and spread it on some bricks or rocks to grow. Probably best to get the rocks mossy first, and then transfer the moss or mossy rocks to your bonsai. That way you won't wash spoiled milk into your soil.

Don't get caught using the blender for this purpose, though!

Regards,

Matt

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