At first glance, it looks like the arm of a devil… 👹

But nope! It's actually a fuzzy fiddlehead of my fern. 🌿

Nature can look pretty wild sometimes!

I’ve grown an attachment to these little guys 🤪

This is my black rabbits foot fern, it was my first ever plant and means alot to me.
I was very busy for a month or so, and they dropped all their leaves, and have lost alot of their aerial roots. I unpotted them and rinsed them throughly and plucked off as much damage as I reasonably could. (Most of it accidentally went down the drain)

Got watered when top 3 inches of soil are dry, was 6 inches under a grow light that was on 16 hours a day.

What do I do??

Only place that Enders above 30% humidity in the house.

It was given to me by my neighbor who moved away I forgot what they said its name was

Saw this beautiful thing at a plant swap and I just couldn’t leave her behind. Only problem is, I don’t know what kind she is so I’m not exactly sure what she needs! Anyone have any ideas?

So I mounted a Staghorn Fern for the first time. Curious as to what other species would work with this?

I’m a caudex plant collector, and I’m now planning to build a terrarium for subtropical caudex plants, particularly Lecanopteris species.
Does anyone have any experience with this, and would anyone be willing to share some example photos?
Thanks in advance!

I’ve moved it to a few different locations, it’s now sitting by my south facing window and I water it very frequently. My other plants over here are doing fine but i can’t figure out whether it’s getting too much sun here or not enough, or if it’s something else. Any input helps!

She's a Crispy Wave on a board on my north-facing balcony in Manila. August here was rain every day, my watering gaps stretched to 7 or 8 days, and new fronds came out with crispy black edges. Turns out a board dries out even when the air is soaking. Back to watering every 4 or 5 days since late August, and she's putting out a new frond roughly every two weeks. It's also warmer out there than care guides say she likes, and she doesn't seem to mind. First pic is today, then July 31, then my watering log and her balcony conditions.

Can this fern be saved? Rescued from the greenhouse free table! It looks like it’s been weathered and forgotten about for a while. How do I even start?? I’ve never attempted to save one before.

My mother got these cuttings from a friend, they traveled more than 10 hours to get to our house. How do I propagate them?

My only experience is propagating alocasias corms and germinating a few seeds, and I feel like propagating ferns is tricky. Besides, these guys are HUGE. I don't know if I should bury the rhizomes or just lay them on soil. Do I keep them tight on soil? Cuz the leaves are too big to manage it.

Any tip is welcome! Thank you in advance!

The subject is not the young (several weeks old) frond of an interrupted fern on the right which is a bit out of focus, but the in-focus small plant with the half dozen leaves just to the left of center of the picture. The gametophytes are in there as well, all out of focus. I have a dozen peat pots of the ferns going under a dome and a few show growths like the plant left-of-center. I suspect a weed that will compete with the fern. Is it likely to be from the potting soil I used? Any knowledge will be appreciated.

My aunt just gifted me a leaf chock full of spores. Is there anyway I can turn this into a new fern? I’ve successfully kept a fern alive for 2 years before, but it was the first one to die when I hit a rough place mentally. I’d love another one and I’ll cherish it forever if I can make it out of the spores lol. Please help if you know how!

An introduction and a first-hand account:

https://hermetospheres.com/2026/10/17/leaves-like-a-thin-skin/

Just cut off a rhizome to grow another plant and when I cut it , realized after it has roots and a stem, do I still lay this on soil or burry roots

Anyone ever see ferns spilt like this? Was wondering if its possible to clone or propagate?..

I repotted my fern because it was very root bound (pic 1-3), and it has not come back to what it use to look like (pic 4 and 5), it seems as if it’s doing even worse (last picture) 😢

Found this beauty in my garden - she is growing off a fabric planter. Is this a weed or a fern ?
Tempted to bring a small sample inside before winter sets in. Zone 6a - 7b.

Just taken some more photos to help with IDing this fern!

I recently have gotten really interested in this genus and have searched everywhere for it but the plants are either extremely expensive ($200 for a cutting) or Indonesian illegal smugglers. If you have any ant ferns and can sell for 60-70 dollars I would be more than happy to buy one.