Bobert Mossington

The birth of Bob Moss (and other stuff)

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But on that note, I'm restarting the water ecosystem jar thingy I tried making once but accidentally did wrong (by making it when it was still winter/spring) so that should be fun, and also the moss is steadily growing, added some new clumps I found outside to it so maybe they'll enjoy it. Just gotta wait for time to pass sadly, might post a few pics of other plants in a bit but for now I shan't. Oh! I might redo the slime mold thingy soon, though it dying killed my enthusiasm for that so might be a while.

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Winter is such a slow season, I just want to get some pond water teeming with small life and let it live in a jar, but nooo the sun has to be at just the wrong angle and the weather has to be just the right wrong and I have to wait until the Hot™ has arrived :(

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Got moss and also a man.

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Got a massive amount of rain here so probably can fetch some moss tomorrow, shall see.

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Will do more talk when I acquire fern moss, for now, I mourn.

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May have just killed Marmalade.. So... That's bad.. Apparently his hatred for old oats is even stronger than I previously thought and now all that's left of his is a single squiggle. Hopefully I can nurse him back to health with the singular squiggle!

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Oh no, oh god no. I just decided "Hey I should probably look up how long itll take for my container of moss to grow and uh, results are not good. 6 months or so.. In the one specific group of moss I have, which is the pillowy kind vs the feathery kind.... I know a big patch of the fast growing feathery kind so I'll fetch that in a little while, may make a second container or just add it, probably the latter, we will see.

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Oh yeah here's my plants, got a cute little mystery Cactus that I adore, currently trying to propogate him, I got a bunch of little tree seedlings since I want to get into bonsai and just have a little tree, I have an absolutely lovely Swedish Ivy who very much loves his little container, and then I have my stinky bad dumb watermelon Peperomia who wants so so so much from me which I simply cannot give :(, thinking of giving him back to the nice lady who gifted me him. All of these are in little containers with lids and grow lights, keep it humid and bright. Next up, there's my Kalanchoe, Anthurium, Lucky Bamboo, and moss! All of which are happily sitting with lots of light (the moss is might need to go higher actually but we'll see) and yeah! Slime mold is not included due to him looking ugly at the moment I need to replace his bedding, trying to lead him to a second container which is clean.

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Expand.. Also I plucked the eaten oats out for his comfort.

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Hhhh repotted my Kalanchoe and raised my moss up a bit so him get more light. Slime mold is now on the fabric but will take more time until fully on. That is all, goodnight.

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My moss is growing and my slime mold is happily flowing into his new bed! Or at least an oat that will then be made into a chain of oats that lead into his bed, it's a whole thing. The fabric happily absorbs water so that should keep him moist at all times and the 3d printed container shall keep him away from other slime molds (whenever I expand my collection). Oh! And the moss is just gonna sit there until it's a mat.

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The slime mold market is dead and all I can find is a French person on eBay selling 3 types (got Marmalade from them). Also an actual supplier but they only sell a single acellular one. The only option left is to venture into the local forest and find some but that'd have to be in spring or something. God I just want more..

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He sure as hell eating more

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Slime mold hath arrived and is now happily sitting on a paper towel until he... Hatches? Is reborn? Undies? No clue, be he sure is sitting there! Put some oats next to him for when he gets hungry, shall update when there's movement!

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Here's one of my plants, inside an emptied out bookshelf with some growlights since I have almost no windows and its the middle of winter. It's a Kalanchoe, pretty sure the white spiky bits will end up being flowers so that's really neat!

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Btw got like, 2 bags of dirt so that's good. Also I am not indulging in my primal instinct to eat it, that would be bad.