Donald,
I do forget, you live in FL where the weather is almost always conducive to plants. :lol:
I have both a hammer and butterknife on hand (no chisel), so I'll be sure to grab both when I repot. It's currently in a ceramic pot, so hopefully it comes out without me having to break the pot (it was apparently a bad idea putting it in one of my favorite pots!).
'Sprengeri' is the one my MIL has planted in the ground, the name escaped me yesterday. I've had a few of those myself, but she ends up taking them off my hands because they outgrow me too fast. At least this 'Foxtail Fern' seems a little slower growing.
I'm not sure why, but 'Myers' seems slower growing with respects to vegetation and root mass for me, but I won't complain.
Reading your story makes me happy that mine seems a little slower growing, haha.
Oh yes, the spines. I'm also glad 'Myers' doesn't have spines. I remember reading a blog of sorts, and the guy was talking about 'Sprengeri.' He says something along the lines of, it looks at you all nice and fluffy, but once you start to mess with it, you feel the spines in your hands, "what a dick" (the last part he did say lol).
This is true, until they froze one year (it snowed and then iced back to back and she failed to cover them), my MIL's 'Sprengeri' ferns would be in containers sitting around her backyard, only receving attention with the rain. My Mother did manage to kill one though, but I've become convinced she can't own a plant.
She tends to forget that they're there. Well, she does have one cactus that is still going.
I'm excited to repot this 'Foxtail Fern' and trim it back, but the weather hasn't quite stayed warm here yet, so it'll be a few more weeks.
Planto
