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Don't be fooled! Most of these pictures are moss glued to a wall or sculpted from existing moss on the wall, NOT painted on with the the recipe shown in the art
by maaaats 12y ago
Don't be fooled! Most of these pictures are moss glued to a wall or sculpted from existing moss on the wall, NOT painted on with the the recipe shown in the article. If you check out videos/blogs/etc about this, there are never follow ups, just people making it. It's because it fails most of the time.
I've tried it myself, it's possible, but don't expect results similar to those in the article. Getting it to grow on a vertical wall is very hard, it won't hold the water and unless you have windy rain it won't really get enough water in the beginning. Because before it's become nice moss, it's more like dry grass on a wall. I've experimented with adding super absorbent polymers to hold the water ("water beads for plants" or something like that). With that, I got better results. But mostly on angled/horizontal surfaces. For some reason, my country doesn't sell that kind of stuff, so I had to cut a bunch of diapers open.
- atourgates 12y agoNothing like the results in the results in the article, but one person (http://ourlittlegreendot.com/diy-moss-graffiti-paint-results/ http://ourlittlegreendot.com/diy-moss-graffiti-paint-results...) reported success following a similar recipe and using the mixture to make a garden statue look like something found abandoned in a jungle. These people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBsIljmgm7o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBsIljmgm7o) seem to show it working with diaper-stuff like you mentioned, though many people are crying "fake" about their video. Man vs. Pin tried (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfwen84Wmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfwen84Wmo) and didn't have much success, though in the end a neighbor washed it away, and it looks like he was putting it on a sunny wall in a warm climate. It'd be neat to figure out, but doing something like a vertical garden where you start out flat, grow the moss, then hang it on a wall seems more realistic to get anything like the Anna Garforth pieces everyone seems to post along with the recipes.
- derefr 12y agoThinking on "things that are used in industry as substrates for encouraging cell growth" — why not agar? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar#Plant_biology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar#Plant_biology)