In addition to sowing seeds, I tried Makigoke in order to grow mosses for bonsai.
Preparation
Preparation of cradle
I used the same plastic noodle cup, into which I sowed the seeds.
Seeds are already sowed in the soil.
I added special soil for seeding/seedling cutting on the surface. The purpose is to make mosses easily peeled. To be honest, I’m not sure it works or not.
Mosses
I bought these mosses last summer. I was so busy and just left them and forgot abou them. There’re 4? kinds of mosses. Unfortunately I totally forgot what kind of mosses I bought…
These are also mosses I purchased few years ago. From the left, Shippo-goke (Dicranum), Sugi-goke (Polytrichum juniperinum) and Suna-goke (Racomitrium canescens). By some reasons I gave up Shippo-goke.
This is sunagoke. Perhaps the rain flowed in, they are not dried up.
This is situation of sugi-goke. It is also not dried up, but the condition is not good.
How to do Maki-goke
Now let’s do it!
Cut the mosses into small pieces (5mm~1cm long) by scissors and spread them on the soil. That’s it!
Do you see the size of mosses for makigoke?
Makigoke of sunagoke is done. Do the same procedure to the rest of mosses.
Finished. There’re 5 kinds of mosses here. After this, I poured a lot of water.
Mosses have to be wet always, so I have to water them often. I’m not sure all of them will grow or not, but let’s see…!
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