Lets See Your Staghorns

[injunjoe]

Here is one of mine. She is about 4 years old.

 

[beefy]

 

[injunjoe]

Here is a baby I cut from my prize Stag.

See the two new leaves? This tells me she will be just fine.
Cutting it from Momma was hard!

 

[injunjoe]

Cool !
I had one a tree frog ( non native) moved into one of mine, after he was gone a bird moved in to make a nest. They killed it but I did not want to bother the birds nest! The frog I did indeed dispatch!

Great picture, do you find eggs in there?

 

[beefy]

ive got two little ones about that size i started from my big one too. the big one used to be grandmothers and i inherited it when she died. she used to let people take pieces from it out of the top and when i brought it here the chickens decided that would make a good nest. what is your big one growing on? why is it growing up high on one side?

 

[beefy]

yes thats an old picture and i actually have a different chicken gone broody in it right now on 8 eggs. my mom has one about the same size but hers is a lot healthier growing on a coconut shell. the house wrens build a nest in it every year.

 

[beefy]

are you going to grow the staghorn and rabbits foot fern together or did that just fall on there?

 

[injunjoe]

ive got two little ones about that size i started from my big one too. the big one used to be grandmothers and i inherited it when she died. she used to let people take pieces from it out of the top and when i brought it here the chickens decided that would make a good nest. what is your big one growing on? why is it growing up high on one side?

The growth like a funnel is the way they collect nutrients, it is there sterile set of leaves. They collect leaves water and such.
It is growing on a wire frame with coconut fiber shell.

 

[injunjoe]

are you going to grow the staghorn and rabbits foot fern together or did that just fall on there?

Good eye my friend! yes I put that there just to see what happens.

 

[injunjoe]

Here is Big Mama!
Small compared to some I see around here.

She has a funnel at the top also. Hard to fit er' all in the frame.