Sphagnum Moss 40 Liters New Zealand Grade AA Great for Reptiles, Bedding and Terrarium 500 Gram Bale

If you need pure sphagnum for plants rather than for crafts, high quality moss like this is the way to go. It has minimal debris that needs to be removed before use. As quality decreases, debris increases. High quality moss means less work for you and more useable moss.This moss was 99% debris-free, which is about as close as you can get. Like on of the other reviewers, I did encounter a very pointy jagger thing. Because I first sort through the dry moss, I only got a minor prick and quickly removed it. If I hadn’t sorted through it and jumped straight to rehydrating and stuffing it into pots (tempting when the moss is largely debris-free), I could have very easily pushed it into my palm when grabbing a fist full of moss. Obviously not ideal, but this is why inspecting it is important. I got one pointy weed thing in 20L of moss (I’ve used about half the bag), and I consider that a non-issue. Just wanted to point out that you won’t find a totally clean bag of moss and you should always inspect moss before using it.This is a lot of moss. I used a 15-quart storage bin to rehydrate the moss in. When rehydrated, about 1/2 of the block filled the bin. So when they give you volume in the description, they seem to mean the volume of the hydrated moss. Anyway, it’s a lot of moss. Only rehydrate what you need and leave the rest dry for easy storage.I use LFS for carnivorous plants, mostly sundews. First, I sort through the dry moss and remove any debris. Before using any kind of packaged moss, you need to rehydrate it. I boil distilled water and pour it over the moss. I was hoping that the boiling water would kill any spores/seeds that survived the drying process, but a few weeds still popped up. They were very easy to pull, though. In the future, if I have time on my hands, I’ll probably rehydrate it with boiling water and then microwave the rehydrated moss. The moss should probably also be rinsed. I’m too lazy to do this and don’t want to use a whole lot of distilled water, so I generally skip this part. After a few days, pots full of this moss turned the water they were sitting in an amber color. I just emptied that water, refilled the container, and called it good enough. Haven’t had water discoloration since.This is probably the best bang for your buck. High quality moss means that the entire bag is usable material. If you want a fair price comparison with lower quality moss, you should take into account how much actual moss you’ll have after you’ve removed all the junk. That said, if you’re going for something short term or crafty, this isn’t all that important. But if you’re using LFS for something that’s alive, spring for the good stuff.

Hands down the best quality sphagnum I’ve ever purchased for my orchids. It’s clean, has good strand length, lasts longer, and doesn’t compact compared to other brands. I’ve been using it for a year and won’t use anything else. Whether used alone or mixed with bark, it creates the perfect balance of air and moisture that makes for strong roots and happy plants.

First impressions I was dissapointed by how small it looked. Looks are deceiving because this is a very compressed bale. It is a lot more than it appears to be. I use this LFS for bog plants the the moss is very clean and fluffy. If you consider it by gram its actually almost the same in price to the midgrade quality moss you find at hardware stores. Its also started to grow live moss so you can tell this is a quality product that has not been kiln dried or cooked. Highly reccomended

Yes it is pricey, but a beautiful quality. No comparison to the domestic junk I bought previously. And it is such a big volume and will last such a long time that it might turn out not to be expensive in the end. Really nice texture and color, wish I had used this on my fall projects- oh well I will use it next time for sure because I barely used that much out of the pack for my winter projects and sealed it up. Didn't think I would be so excited about some moss but this was so much nicer and worked better than other stuff that I used previously.

The moss arrived as a small bale. It appeared to be a quality moss perfect for growing orchids. I placed the bale in a kitchen size trash can with a lid. I poured about a gallon of water with 1/2 teaspoon of orchid fertilizer dissolved in the water (to steal a quote from Chef Emril "I don't know where you get your water but mine comes without fertilizer"). I let the bale set over night then fluffed it the next day. The moss is excellent with a lot of large strands. I imagine at least a dozen 6" pots could be filled with it. I have repotted several phals and they are growing fine. I will purchase more of this as I need it.

The moss is of a very high grade and 40 liters is really a lot of moss. I repotted all my orchids, built a couple of moss poles for my Swiss cheese plant and I still have about half of the pack remaining. I'm glad I listened to the advice of another reviewer and hydrated only a little at a time. The moss hydrates very easily, upon hydration is very soft and fluffy without much debris and it retains the moisture for the optimum amount of time.

I purchased the 500g, 40L version. It came as a small plastic-wrapped bale. I used approximately 1/6 of it to repot four orchids into 5" pots (with 1/2 styrofoam).Pros:- As advertised, no sticks and no trash- Long-strand, mostly white/light brown moss- I'm guessing I could probably repot around 30 large orchids, if not more. The 500g bale was totally overkill for someone like me, who has only eight phalenopsis.Bad:- Gnats. I bought this despite the other review indicating the potential presence of gnats. I figured that it was a fluke. No, that reviewer was right. I had a colony of gnats appear within days. It's rather unpleasant.For the price, the moss itself was a good buy, but the free bonus of gnats is still leaving me scratching my head on how to get rid of them. One star deduction.

This is a smaller block than I expected - about half a cubic foot. However, it is very compressed and expands a lot when it's pulled apart and moistened. It's very high quality sphag as advertised, a nice pale color and many intact strands, soft and fluffy. I bought a different sphagnum moss locally and it was very degraded, dark in color, and wouldn't hold any moisture for any length of time. This is a much better product, and a great price compared to other sources of high-quality New Zealand Sphagnum moss.