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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.

No offense but would it kill you to put a link in there?

For example, https://www.ebay.com/sch/ads.ink/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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.

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.

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.

@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

@MikeB that's really cheap! I might even buy some myself...

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 Red Fuzzy 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.

I got a bag of that deep red, fits in to my budgets cause i didn’t grab any of his other moss lmao, but still for 45 bucks a quart i hope this is good….

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?

Why does the moss look like suspicious cotton candy?

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.

I have ordered from this seller a few times and the moss has done well for me indoors under led lights.

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?