I applied milk to the bark I am growing lichen on. The milk provides proteins for the lichen, and it also sticks the lichen fragments to the bark.
I'm unsure as to whether or not I can provide an environment similar enough to the outdoors where I had collected the samples. It will be tough to tell if anything will happen or not since lichen grows incredibly slow. It would probably make lots more sense to grow lichen in the outdoors. Some day when I have a home with enough land for trees and rocks, I will have to remember this.
For now, I continue moistening the bark regularly in the hopes that the lichen will colonize it.
I'm unsure as to whether or not I can provide an environment similar enough to the outdoors where I had collected the samples. It will be tough to tell if anything will happen or not since lichen grows incredibly slow. It would probably make lots more sense to grow lichen in the outdoors. Some day when I have a home with enough land for trees and rocks, I will have to remember this.
For now, I continue moistening the bark regularly in the hopes that the lichen will colonize it.
that's more lichen it :-P
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