What the heck is this stuff?

[Joanie]

This tiny little forest of seems to have popped up overnight - anyone know what they will develop into?

 

[Ertiocx]

It's hard to tell, but at least some of them look like they have caps that might start inflating, which makes me think they're moss sporophytes of some kind.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

Too quick for Utrics?

 

[Joanie]

Too quick for Utrics?

Ya - literally overnight they appeared

 

[barvinok]

Not sure how fast they usually grow but they do look like sporophytes to me

 

[Les serres de Paolo Inc.]

Grass

 

[Avery]

Looks like sporophytes from the moss. I get it all the time in my pots.

 

[Camden M.]

Looks like sporophytes from the moss. I get it all the time in my pots.

So that’s the name for those things! I didn’t know that. Huh.
I think it’s a combination of grass and sporophytes (my new favorite word )

 

[partisangardener]

I can`t detect grass. Lots of sporophytes.

 

[nepnewbie]

Moss sporangia

 

[Joanie]

I may come to regret letting these develop, but they are just so darn cute!

They remind me of meerkats with their little heads looking all around

 

[partisangardener]

There are usually enough spores in the peat. So more make no real difference.
But at this stage is the optimum moment to harvest the moss. I rip them out each single one in case I want to cut down moss a bit.
Usually I do not care and leave it. Australian Pygmy Drosera get this treatment from me.

 

[Joanie]

That's good to know ... the meerkats can stay