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By MikeB
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There's an eBay seller called ads.ink who has all sorts of interesting-colored live sphagnum moss. Now that the weather has cooled off, his
stock
is back. His mosses are pretty but not cheap: most of the quart-sized bags cost $25, and the extra-red ones are $35.
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davinstewart wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:23 pm No offense but would it kill you to put a link in there?
The word "stock" is underlined with a link.
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Ugh, my bad.
MaxVft wrote:
davinstewart wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:23 pm No offense but would it kill you to put a link in there?
The word "stock" is underlined with a link.
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MaxVft wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:43 pm
davinstewart wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:23 pm No offense but would it kill you to put a link in there?
The word "stock" is underlined with a link.
The dotted underline is too easy to miss. I edited my post and changed the link text to dark blue. I think I'll start doing that for all embedded links from now one.
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@davinstewart: I found some reasonably priced live sphagnum moss on Etsy for you to check out.

Fresh Live Sphagnum moss (green) -- link
$8 for 2 quarts (half-gallon)
$12 for 4 quarts (whole gallon)

Purple Live Sphagnum moss -- link
$10 for 2 quarts (half-gallon)
$18 for 4 quarts (whole gallon)

Dwarf Sphagnum -- link
$20 for 1 square foot
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I decided to spring for some live sphagnum moss from ads.ink. This seller names the moss according to its color. Here's what I got:

Orange-tipped Cream
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25 bucks (each) got a pleated, quart, ZipLoc bag full of moss. The strands are 3-4 inches (7.5-10 cm) long. If I had cut each strand into thirds or quarters, then a bag would've been almost enough to cover a 1020 tray (if only I had the space...). The seller also has some very nice red moss and red-tipped green, but they run 35 bucks a bag, and that was just too rich for my wallet.

I'm propagating what I bought in deep food-storage containers, fingers crossed that it adapts to the climate in North Carolina.
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SDK1 wrote: Sun Dec 18, 2022 4:17 am I've been eyeing a couple of the variety packs this seller has posted; how did the moss you got from them end up growing?
Most of it did okay, but I don't think the Maine moss was particularly thrilled with the North Carolina climate. I'm going to stick with the local species. They aren't as colorful, but they grow very well here.
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Bug_cemetery, your about the same latitude as Maine, aren't you? Big difference between there and NC. Sounds like the eBay moss's growth habits are kind of latitude dependent, maye?
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