This is how my friend who is a Platy Nut grows them in Bkk.
Hi Michael, now you started it! The
Platyceriums are one my favs. I have a decent collection of them and I still am collecting them. They are very easy to grow and does best on an organic fert like fruit skins or just rotting fruits.
You can grow them on wooden boards, plastic drain covers, concrete pillars, trees, on the top of pots, you name it!
This is how I grow some of them at my nursery. I just hang them onto a Nangka tree. Some are tied to the trunk and branches till they are established.
Lovely group of
Platycerium holttumii at my Bkk friend's yard.
These two clumps of
P wilinckii (top) and
P bifurcatum (bottom) are grown on a concrete pillar right in front of my porch. They both started as a single pup. I feed them 'naner skins and rotten 'naners like crazy.
The
P alcicorne from Madagascar gota be the most elegant species. My absolute fav.
