Product Review
Peruvian Spagnum Moss is harvested by hand and exported worldwide for use as hanging basket liners, as a growing medium for young orchids, and mixed in with other potting mixes to enhance their moisture retaining properties.Easy to use medium that holds moisture and fertilizer for growing plants. Sphagnum moss is a magnificent soil conditioner for ornamental plants, organic farming and many other applications. The Peruvian Moss grows abundantly in swamps of the peruvian highlands, 3,000 meters over sea level. Harvest is being regulated by the local authorities according to an agricultural plan of management. This model of production allows the communities of the area to harvest the moss without damaging the resource, allowing the later recovery of the bog and becoming a renewable resource.
- Easy to use medium that holds moisture and fertilizer for growing plants. When hydrated 150g makes approx 6L.
- Easy to use medium that holds moisture and fertilizer for growing plants. When hydrated 150g makes approx 6L.
- Easy to use medium that holds moisture and fertilizer for growing plants. When hydrated 150g makes approx 6L.
- Excellent for lining wire baskets mounting staghorn or bromeliads and lining and filling wire forms of topiary. This high-quality moss is helpful to use in reducing shock when re-potting seedlings such as Cattleyas Phalaenopsis Oncidiums and Dendrobiums
- Sphagnum Moss lasts a long time in the vivarium, It is placed between the substrate and leaf litter layers in a vivarium to prevent the substrate from adhering to the frogs, and to increase the suitable environment for microfauna. Sphagnum Moss also makes a great substrate for temporary or quarantine tanks for dart frogs, as well as rearing bins for young froglets.
- Best to soak the dry sphagnum moss in water where it will expand and fluff up ready for use, add to potting mixes or use as a potting medium on its own.
- Our moss is from the Andes of Peru, over 3,000 mts of altitude. Due to its climate and absence of trees, it is a very high quality and clean moss, comparable to the New Zealand moss. Because of the characteristics of the harvest zones, at great altitude in the Andes of Peru, Peruvian Sphagnum Moss has a level of cleanliness that exceeds similar products in the market.
