Advice needed..this started to turn brown a few weeks ago..fully brown and leaves are brittle and falling apart..I was told this was unkillable..there's a little moisture in the bowl..but not overly wet...any suggestions?
Three bird's nest ferns, same age, same board, all mounted on the same afternoon. Two went outside on the wall in front of the air conditioning grille, where there is always air moving across them. One went inside next to a window.
Four weeks on, the three of them had visibly split. The indoor one held water in the moss far longer, because nothing was moving air across it. Same watering, same week, completely different drying time. I had spent the whole time thinking about humidity, and the variable that was actually doing the work was airflow.
All three are off that wall now, and the reason I was watching that closely is that I build a plant app that scores a spot for a plant on light, temperature, humidity and airflow before you commit to it.
If you keep ferns, Plus is on the house for twelve months when you come back afterwards and tell me where it got your ferns wrong. Two spots and two plants stay free whatever you decide, and nothing renews by itself: https://growspotapp.com/founding/?from=reddit-ferns
What I still cannot tell is whether the grille position was too much of a good thing over a longer stretch. If you keep mounted ferns, do you go looking for a spot with moving air, or do you fight to keep the air still and the humidity up?
My apartment temp averages 75. Is that too cool? They get partial sunlight most of the day. Am I watering too much? Not enough?
My asparagus fern loves the spot that is in and hasn't stop trying to climb. She is in a self watering pot in a north facing window. This last growth has gone a little out of hand as she is trying to reach new heights. How do you guys would help to control or direct the new growth? I'm afraid is going to collapse due to the weight of the branches and hurt herself.
Photos taken June 2026-August 2026
Went away for a week, and, sadly, the person we asked to come water wasn’t able to come.
The fern looked healthy before we left.
Does anybody have advice for how to revive? Is all hope gone? Help very much appreciated, and thank you in advance :).
I’ve also attached a picture of another fern of ours that did OK during the week away, which was odd.
Sooo I collected this fern(?) near my house a month ago and it’s been thriving(?) in my terrarium, its honestly so pretty i wanna know what is it and why does the majority of my baby springtails like to walk around the glass? (The adults r on the substrate)
Its small so it’s hard to tell what it is based on google, and id apps won’t help
A couple of ferns photos from the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison WI. One Maude the conservatory and one in an outside garden.
These are some of my favorites. I did not include my pitiful looking maidenhair, which just can’t be happy no matter what I do!
Any ideas what I have reproduced in my garden?
The grocery store just gave me a free fern because they were wilting soooooo now I have a fern, I have no idea how to take care of it but I did figure out that it’s probably a Boston fern!
Got this baby when I first became a lawyer, one month and it'll be a year! Anything I should be doing to make sure its cared for properly?
Which form do you prefer? đź‘€
If you have any questions about growing them, feel free to ask!
After all the nice comments about my cotton candy fern, I wanted to share my asparagus fern as well!
had it for 3 days in a terrarium but i let the terrarium air out a little today and came back to this dried up fern :(
can it be salvaged?
lol update:
just needed some light lol i forgot i turned the LED off last night