Roosterlorn said:This flipping the bag thing has gone a little off course.
Sorry to have misunderstood. We are in agreement.
A better pic of raw sphagnum moss and milled (processed) raw sphagnum moss.
Roosterlorn said:If you read between the lines here, take note that the mix ingredients are virtually inert. The reason being that as the bublet grows, we want it to get all of its nutrition from the mother scale and consume it totally rather than have the little bublet take off on a life of its own allowing the mother scale to rott next to it.
Although I have not heard it explained that way, it makes a lot of sense. About the non-nutritive value (inertness) of the media, I reason that the main advantage is that fungal diseases have nothing to grow on, and contribute to the semi-sterile environment.
A lily grower explained once that he takes the added precaution of "washing" the cut end of the scale to remove broken cell contents. He holds them under the running faucet for 30 seconds (or some such time). The idea is that the exposed cell contents at the cut end provide sustenance (without any defenses) for a disease to grow.
i tried this once last season, and didn't find it advantageous or disadvantageous. Done on the cuff, it was a quite unscientific test, and needs more investigation.
