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More work on the indoor grow station. I rigged up a little contraption that allows me to adjust the angle of the top two lights, so they don't shine in my eyes while I'm in bed. It's two boards connected at the back with some door hinges and slot with a bolt that runs through it and a thumb nut. I twist the nut to raise/lower the bottom board and change the angle.

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Made a kokedama at work.
Our night guy's been trying to give away a spider plant baby for about 4 months now.
It's been sitting in water in a coffee mug on the table in the lunch room with a sign "free to a good home"... The sign's got all crinkled from watering and dirty.
It finally annoyed me enough to do something about it...
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P1100473.JPGwait.. this is the same plant?
its called "zielistka" here, google says same thing
it have one long sprout from which baby plants grow..
i have quite a lot of them (and like a mossball idea)
heh another reason to grow moss
 
Even if I'm not sure on the final design for the half dozen or so of these horizontalis variegated junipers I have, I can still do some seasonal work by identifying the branches that are least suitable or likely to contribute (alive, anyway) to the end goal.

That's a long way of saying I jinned back a couple of bigger branches.

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Farming bryum caespiticium clumps.

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I have some Byrum caespitucium on the far right of my pretty moss collection and some argenteum on my trees.
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The rest of the moss storage
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It freaks some of the other old timers out when they see moss on my JBP.
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I've been adding it between the stone pavers in front of my shed too. Probably my favorite.
 
I have some Byrum caespitucium on the far right of my pretty moss collection and some argenteum on my trees.
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The rest of the moss storage
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It freaks some of the other old timers out when they see moss on my JBP.
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I've been adding it between the stone pavers in front of my shed too. Probably my favorite.

Nice! If I could grow nothing else for the rest of my life, it would be moss.

This tray might be argenteum, or something native to this area. Most likely, I've got a mix. I have some clumps that are more of a sage-gray, almost white color, even when wet.

These byrum species are the only ones that I've gotten to grow reliably in Denver. I have some that grows between pavers that I've been slowly harvesting. It almost completely desiccates, which is handy when we have humidity in the single digits and no rain for weeks at a time. I've got a moss bed with a water feature here and some young bristlecones. This time of year, it needs to be misted 4x a day (on a timer), and I water a bit more when the soil gets really dry. That's not even the worst of it, though; it's the dry winters when the mister is off. I need to be better about winter watering. I've had about half the moss in this bed die back over the past couple of years. It looks sparse now but there are a lot of pores starting to fill back in. That's one of the reasons I'm growing some in trays, to replenish this bed. The other reason is to put on trees, of course.

There's a kind of black moss that grows in the desert areas around here that I want to try propagating, but I haven't gotten my hands on it yet.

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The new growth on my arakawa has the same color as my deshojo. I love this tree!
 
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