How To Care For Staghorn Ferns (Platycerium bifrucatum) | Plant Of The Week Ep. 33

[@sunshinewaters5335]

One of my favorite plants. Mine grow outside. Very easy to propagate. I’ve grown two of these by separating two “pups” from the parent plant. They can get very big outside.

[@Gorgeouscorliss]

I just bought a Staghorn Fern yesterday, which is why I’m watching this video I hope mine turns out to look as beautiful as yours. I love the way you have it on the wood board it’s fantastic.

[@Moonlight-sigma]

Could I plant this in driftwood at the top of my aquarium with its roots in the water and leaves at the top? I was just wondering because I have a decent sized fern just sitting on a pot in my window and was wondering if I could get more out of it.

[@yesanothersarah]

Came to watch this because my staghorn is declining, but looking it over now, it has THRIPS. Not one I would have thought to look for or treat, but that's my day.

[@glennroe1744]

I always enjoy your videos so much. I learn so much and you are so likeable. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all. My partner just bought me a staghorn for my birthday today!

[@cindyvan635]

I have mine out on my patio in Southern California, and it's been a low of 40's at night on occasion, no problem. 💚🌱💚🍃

[@nanabethscreations725]

I love my staghorn ferns. They are awesome plants and I am glad to have 2 and would love more.

[@XoXDownAndUnderXoX]

I just got a mounted staghorn today so this is absolutely perfect timing!!! Now I’m getting into mounted plants and will be digging through your previous videos 💖

[@ltllu]

I’m here so early! My stag horn is thriving, I love her 😍 (my bf spent $45 on a big one) and now she is huge!

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

try platycerium ridleyi, it hard like hell.

[@loissaedder2214]

Yep growing on trees in the rainforest here in Australia. People grow them outside here. I've never heard of anyone growing them inside but I guess where I am, Queensland, it doesn't get so cold.

[@tedwardrick]

When the leaves mature, they will have spores on them, when the spores mature (brown or black dots instead of green dots), you can collect the spores and propagate them, but they take forever to grow to a decent size.

[@jadelivingston7389]

Literally just bought a mounted staghorn yesterday! Great timing lol

[@blanchemcmanus4783]

I have 3 growing in hanging pots, under shade cloth. They are doing lovely water when completely dry and abit of pellet fertiliser in spring. In Australia.

[@betsymaltby6788]

Perfect timing! After watching your videos and seeing in person gigantic Staghorn Ferns at a botanical garden in Florida, I just purchased my first one last week, it is so pretty!! Love your "Plant of The Week" series...keep them coming!!

[@margueriteocarroll6301]

I have 2, one reasonably large and one small one. The large one is prone to scale and I just remove them with isopropyl alcohol. It's growing in moss, in a wire basket, but I am now seriously thinking of putting it on a board. Thanks for another great video 💙💛

[@leesattelmeyer2953]

Enjoyed this video as it reminded me of how much joy I got out of having one in the past. Moved from a house where it was happy hanging in a glass block bay window. It was not happy in the new home with only a southwest facing window. There it also caught an infection of brown scale that it never reccovered from. I, too, used a q-tip with rubbing alcohol to remove the mature scale. I found I also needed to wash down the fronds. A sicky sap like on the fronds indicates the presents of immature scale that needs to be removed.

[@vanessap.4810]

I just mounted mine couple of weeks ago, using the mounting tutorial you did years ago! I can't wait to watch them grow ☺️

[@b.r.v.8609]

I’ve had mine since the summer, almost lost it early on because I was way overwatering. Poor guy has lost his little shield parts due to rot but he’s rebounded and putting out big leaves in front of my grow light.

[@lutinlaut]

I have a huge staghorn I've had for more than 5 years now. It's easily a meter in diameter. It's in soil for now until I move, then I plan on dividing my boy up and mounting them

[@viktoriali6860]

Thank you, Nick! I've been eyeing getting a staghorn, after seeing some huge specimens at various botanical gardens. They just look so cool, growing on trees or stumps, but I feared that my cold scadinavian flat would lead to another lost fern, but it seems this is the one to go for 😄 This video was just the push that I needed 💚

[@yeastybeastie]

You can do it! Mine has survived winter on a chilly (down to ~10C) windowsill and is still looking good and tentatively putting out new growth this spring.

[@jossywhite3003]

I have any of these growing in trees in my garden. I beam them up every few years and hang them in another tree. The original stag horn is still huge 54 inches height and width. And that was chopped in half a couple of years ago And yes I chuck banana peels at them occasionally

[@sandyg8794]

Hi Nick! I love my 3 staghorn ferns. They aren't as big as yours, but maybe some day! LOL! Once it warms up more I'm going to take the plunge and mount one of my staghorn ferns to see how it does. I need to start looking for something to mount it to. I really appreciate the detail you go into for the plants in this series. It really helps a lot. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@NU2UTX]

Thanks, this will be my next plant project.

[@susansanchez4794]

Hi Nick! That's a beautiful stag horn fern, there's a nursery here in Orange that has huuuuge stag horn ferns growing on the trees and support posts, it's called M & M Nursery, been there for years, now I'm tempted to buy a stag horn fern, thank you for sharing this, enjoy your day, hello from Orange County, CA 🌱🌿🌵

[@sarahb.6475]

I just found out about these plants that can grow on boards and was very surprised! And of course I was wondering "how in the world do you water it?" But you answered that question!! 😁👍

[@m.j.morshead]

Lol $83 au for the ones at my major garden chain,i purchased one for the wife from the kids on mother's day.

[@natjoy22]

...and what timing! I watched this as I mounted my first Staghorn!

[@_jiba_]

Thank you for the tips! I passed over one just the other week because I killed so many ferns already and I didn't want one more on my conscience, but it seems like I should give this one a try. Especially the mounted version just looks so fancy. :)

[@SaraLoretta]

I just got my first Staghorn because of Benji, but this video was so helpful!

[@lisawhite3128]

Loved your video! First time on your channel. I giggled at the part where you said that your previous stags had been experimented on care wise. I have a 5+year old stag that somehow managed to survive all my attempts to treat it like a regular fern until I found its sweet spot. I used to put it in the bathtub to water it but the fronds on it are about 2ft long so it doesn't fit anymore!😄

[@tajmulhall]

So my friend gave me this plant out of the garbage she’s in the floral department at a grocery store, I have it in a pot with soil and its flourishing should I leave it or should I replanted toward hangs on the wall like this thank you in advance of course for your answer I’m really in need of knowing 😊

[@johnjwedrall4290]

Found your channel tonight and subscribed.

[@markborder906]

This species will stand lower temperatures than you mention here. Last autumn I took over one that had spent the previous 4 years in an unheated greenhouse just north of London (U.K.) - the previous grower had sadly died . I kept it in my greenhouse which is just heated with a paraffin heater only lit when the temperature dropped below freezing. I have just (yesterday) removed it from the pot and mounted it on a board. Once the danger of frosts are over, I will hang it on a tree in the garden for the summer.

[@earisu]

Where did you get the board for it? I'm in the UK too and really want to get mine mounted to make it happy as I know it hates being in the pot with soil.

[@markborder906]

@@earisu I made it. I had a small door from an old rabbit hutch (I was looking for a piece of driftwood or thick bark, without any luck, neither could I find anything suitable amongst the aquarium pieces in the local pet shops/fish suppliers). I had an off cut of hardwood (from a garden chair) that I cut and screwed and glued along the bottom to make a small shelf. I drilled a few holes up either side of the “door” to thread wire through and a couple near the top to put thicker wire through so I can fix it to a tree branch for the summer in the garden. I took it from the pot, collected some moss that was growing on the shelves in the greenhouse - sadly not sphagnum moss, that would have been ideal, just a couple of common spreading native species. I wrapped the moss around the rootball and a bit behind the sterile fronds and wound thin florists wire around and through the holes to hold everything together. At the moment it is hanging in the greenhouse and will go out when all danger of frosts has passed. I hope the above helps. BTW, I am in SE England - East Sussex, a few miles inland from the coast.

[@Miles_Hoffman]

Nice one- I’ve yet to try one myself, but when I get it I’ll follow your advice. 💚

[@echognomecal6742]

Other videos I watched say it's fine for low light.

[@darciemeihoff4091]

Scale has also been an issue for me. Seems like they can easily hide out under the shield. Remove as many as I can see once every few weeks with qtip dipped in rubbing alcohol. Thanks for the vid

[@FrancisRebel]

Great timing! I have a staghorn fern that is dying a slow death, as I try to figure out what it wants. Moving it to a brighter spot right now. Thanks!

[@marypolk9820]

Good luck. I want one bad .... but not sure where to put it so I haven't brought one home yet

[@AmberlyPerez]

Just got my first one today!!!:)

[@gailsabrat]

My staghorn has very dark spots on it I live in Florida and it's outdoors most of the time what do you think?

[@kimleger8824]

I boil banana peels, let them cool pull the peels out and use the h banana water for my staghorms sporadically...you wee th difference in the plant.

[@bockumangel]

Thank you Nick !!!!!

[@noratabi]

It's a cool staghorn ferns!! I have 2.

[@baublesanddolls]

What kind of wood do you use? Thank you.

[@moiraslater8526]

Elk horns are really cool if you like staghorns.

[@Lorenmcdee]

Hey Nick do you still have a fern leaf cactus? I don't remember seeing it in a house tour and I'm really obsessed with them. I really really want to hear your review on care etc. It doesn't have a lot of videos on it.

[@moiraslater8526]

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. They don't need loads of water. In many places they rely solely on rain which can be scarce in our drought stricken and unreasonably hot country. They do best in outdoor shade with an easterly facing.

[@zebracary]

If you don't have bright light what type of artificial light should use

[@gardeninggoddess]

$10 😮 Bunnings sell them for $60 I'm growing my own from spores

[@May-Helen]

My favourite 💚 I have three🌱😊

[@mariazhukova8076]

Scales!!! I made a mistake of bringing mine outside for the summer and had to fight scales for a few months.

[@dogblessamerica]

I've always wanted one of these but assumed they needed high humidity. Hmm, perhaps i can get one in a hanging pot over my kitchen sink....

[@laurapruitt2016]

We have a huge one in the floor. I just got it. I dont know how to water it. Its on the floor in a huge bucket.

[@charlieday9287]

YEP, mealybug. They stand up really well to treatment if you mix rubbing alcohol and a drop of dish soap into some water and spray it thoroughly until the mealybugs are gone. BOY is it hard to catch mealybugs on them though -- they look like the white fuzz that comes naturally on the leaves, which you DONT want to strip off, so you gotta make sure the fuzzy stuff you're stripping with a q tip and alcohol is actually a mealybug.

[@sjprothero]

Hi Nick! I'm trying to figure out where to mount my baby staghorn fern. I have cork but I also have a huge tree trunk that I grow vines on but I wouldn't be able to bring it to the bathroom or sink to water. Do you think it would get enough water from just a spray bottle or does it really need to be submerged in water? Also, should I be wiping the fuzzy stuff off the leaves? Thanks a bunch! Enjoy the rest of your week:)

[@rustynellysjungle3166]

Feeling the stag horn :)

[@robertgodwin6604]

How often do you water then?

[@leslier302]

Are they sensitive to chemicals in tap water? I did get mealies on mine before.

[@walterboeding1287]

Awesome job

[@moiraslater8526]

Also look insane in terracotta as they eventually swallow the pot.

[@chantelehanley4411]

I struggle so much with this type of fern and I live in Queensland Australia and it lives outside. Yet I grow maiden hair like no body's business 🤣

[@polyesterbebe]

been thinking about it

[@haileywatson5822]

Already loved this plant, but calling it vegan antlers makes me NEED IT 🤣

[@angelavanwynter4157]

I don't suppose you could do a video on how I can get that bad-boy of the tree in my front garden and mount it before I move so that we can be together for ever and ever and ever and ever!!! (...that, or go out into the bush and potter about an aussie rainforest! :) -legally!)

[@pennyhoward6708]

Are there any seed pods?

[@mchristian9442]

No. Spores.

[@bradwilkins9290]

P. bifrucatum is a elkhorn fern. Staghorn fern's are much larger and don't produce pups.

[@kylefisher4883]

Google Cedar lake botanical gardens staghorn fern its like 25 years old or older

[@CherylMotherofSeven]

Sometimes I listen to your videos and cry. This world so deeply needs to know our Creator who gave His to redeem us back to Himself! Let us all be more fervent in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Thank you for your videos and spreading the Gospel! God bless you:)

[@liv_ryan]

Definitely getting into Staghorns this year, thanks Nick!! lol @ vegan antlers

[@lazfunnyvideos799]

My mommy got a lot of plants

[@exoticabrasil_]

Platycerium hillii* congrats!!!

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚

[@moiraslater8526]

Do you realise how hot and dry the natural habitat for these plants are? Both pretty extreme.

[@janetmitchell4452]

Thheh grow like crazy in Fl., but they are victims of theft. People steal them out of your yards.

[@TheTimeForChange44]

I found one when I was getting my COVID-19 booster shot at clearance! All it needed was a good dose of water, and later re-potting. Don't forget the distilled water! They don't take kindly to minerals and chlorine in the water over time. 🧚‍♀

[@tylermueller1342]

get. to. the. point.