Mossy trip in Malaysia..

[fireblade]

Went to Berjaya hill and visited their japanese garden.
this place have lots of moss!! so tempted to bring back some!!

[d2sign]

What stopping you bro? Don't think there are a lot people

[windcharm]

I guess it is just like divers are educated not to pick up any corals from the sea when they dive? As this will destroy the eco-system ultimately.

[fireblade]

yeah took from my house car park 1 patch of singapore moss and the patch is still empty till now.. :P

[natureAddict]

do you know the name of the moss in your 4th picture (centre part) - it like sunflower shape

[d2sign]

I guess it is just like divers are educated not to pick up any corals from the sea when they dive? As this will destroy the eco-system ultimately.

I'm once a diver too, understand this hehe. Actually, as long as just a small portion, it won't destroy the eco-system "ultimately".

Ideally, the person who collected the moss in wild, able to experiment, understand and grow them, will benefit to the hobbyist true?

Bro fireblade, give me or sell me some when you grow them hehe.

[fireblade]

not sure about the name but look like the star moss that I used to have..

[louis_last]

You should try to master tissue culture of moss, that way you only need to take a very small sample in order to grow much more and it won't have any impact on the eco-system whereas tearing up patches of moss can be quite harmful seeing as it is relatively slow growing.
You might want to see if you can buy some Murishige and Skoog growth media and then go back to collect some tiny samples.

[WiNd08]

You should try to master tissue culture of moss, that way you only need to take a very small sample in order to grow much more and it won't have any impact on the eco-system whereas tearing up patches of moss can be quite harmful seeing as it is relatively slow growing.
You might want to see if you can buy some Murishige and Skoog growth media and then go back to collect some tiny samples.

MS media!!

haha, although the media is widely use in Plant tissue culture techniques I believe it is not very practical for non-professionals who cannot keep the plants in sterile environment?

MS media contains high nutrient levels and fungus would set in destroying your tissue culture if you do not sterilize your media correctly. and technically speaking, there are no way any household hobbyist have access to 210degC + wet heat of an autoclave!

Even small samples of tissue have its risk, through sterilization procedures such as hypochlorite sterilization can kill the moss tissue itself.

i think it's the best to leave it to the bryologist to collect and do the culture! at the same time we should (somehow) try to protect the environment and reduce removal directly from nature

[d2sign]

Wah bro WiNd08, You sure understand how it work! You work in Oriental?

[WiNd08]

haha nope! currently working in a pharmaceutical industry for attachment, still a diploma student.. knowledge wise it's really only the basics

hope to gain some experience + also hobby if i can really get into OA for some training

[louis_last]

luckily i have an autoclave from when i used to cultivate mushrooms. so absolute sterilization is no problem for me, You might be able to purchase a pressure cooker fairly inexpensively, it's not ideal but it can get the job done too. I started off growing mushrooms just using a pressure cooker from home hardware that cost about 25 pounds before i got access to a proper autoclave.

[WiNd08]

luckily i have an autoclave from when i used to cultivate mushrooms. so absolute sterilization is no problem for me, You might be able to purchase a pressure cooker fairly inexpensively, it's not ideal but it can get the job done too. I started off growing mushrooms just using a pressure cooker from home hardware that cost about 25 pounds before i got access to a proper autoclave.

It's cool that you're able to place an autoclave at home! haha, I believe in Singapore such items are not generally available to the public. I think a pressure cooker should work just as well, using pressure to penetrate into the sterilizing materials

[louis_last]

pressure cookers do work but they aren't designed for it so sometimes you will open it to find that everything has spilled / fallen over, and obviously you can't fit very much in them at once so it can become quite time consuming because you must wait for it to heat up and cool down etc. etc.