Legigo 2.2LB Sphagnum Moss for Plants- 40QT Natural Long Fibers Orchid Moss

I grow a lot of plants...it has taken over my house and large backyard greenhouse. I am always looking for cheaper and/or better alternatives for my supplies. I found an extremely low priced moss on another website and decided to give it a try. I should NOT have done that! Upon rehydration, the moss had a horrible "swampy" smell. I didn't have any alternative so I went ahead and used it for a decent amount of houseplant propagations. Nothing rooted and the only thing I grew was mold. Not only was it a huge waste of time and space, I ended up throwing out many expensive cuttings. Needless to say, I was very critical of my next moss purchase. Upon receiving this moss, I immediately opened and smelled it. Not only did it not smell like a swamp, it smelled GOOD! It smelled like raw life...hard to explain. If you truly love plants, you'll understand what I mean. 🫠 I had excellent propagation success with this moss. Most cuttings rooted within a few days. I was also able to reuse the moss with other cuttings. In fact, I ended up only using about half of the package because there was no waste. This moss is at a lower price than anything I've found at local nurseries. Although it cost more up front than the horrible swamp moss, in the long run it cost less because I had success using it for my propagations. Zero complaints on the quality, quantity, and value. I won't experiment with my moss in the future. 🙂

Good For most poles and moisture applications. I use it in moss poles and in pots for orchids. Makes them easier to water! Does a really nice job!!! 👍

High quality! I was worried because when it arrived it was the size of a 100 page book, but after soaking the moss greatly expanded. It’s been a couple days and the new moss is still retaining moisture, whereas another brand of sphagnum moss (bottom half of the photo) is already bone dry not even 24 hours later. This will be the brand I buy from now on!

For the amount you ge is a great deal. Fantastic for filling moss poles and the like without breaking the bank. However, that said it is not super high quality. Mine came with a fair amount of debris (random lil plants started popping up in my moss poles from the moss I got in May of 2025) and it had a noticeably different smell when it was rehydrating than other moss. It was also much more "broken" than other moss I have used but, for the price this is not entirely unexpected. Would I buy again, yes. Is it super high quality, no. But, if you don't need the best of the best, good enough is probably fine. As always, YMMV

Good for what I need it for great amount of moss for the price, fast expansion rate, the only thing I didn’t I’d say not to do is I got the whole thing wet and just left it in its tub and it got moldy if I ever get this again I’ll break off what I need and do it that way.

Purchased the 3.3 lb block. As far as sphagnum goes, I've purchased a brand that came in a 1.2 lb block. One that came in a 2.2 lb block, same brand as this, as well as this; 3.3 lb block. The original block, different brand, was excellent. Long fibers, low bits and pieces good color and fluffy. Of this brand the 2.2 lb bale came in a 15-in (ish) by 15 in (ish) by 6-8" block. This bale, containing 10 or so more quarts and another lb of sphagnum is actually compressed to less than half of the size of that. The block itself was probably 8x8x10 or something, going off memory. The benefit to the 2.2 lb block, it wasn't overly compressed so it was easy to pull moss off in sheets About a quarter of that block would do three to four of the moss poles I do. When naturally decompressed, it would fluff easily and remain in Long fibers. It DID have quite a lot of the smaller bits, many more than previous. I just use those in my mixes that need high water retention. It had a good smell but did have several sticks and pieces of plastic twine. I would recommend it. At time of writing originally, I had not broken into this one yet, but since editing, but it appears VERY compressed. It's not necessarily true the first block I bought was fairly compressed as well, not as compressed as this but it was more compressed in the previous block, and that block actually had less of the little bits and the broken strands then the block of this brand, That was less compacted. All in all, the fibers were all average at least three plus inches, so I think it worked out. It does compress a bit more than the previous batch. I don't like to use the little bits as they will come out through the holes in the moss pole, so I tend to kind of wad them in with the longer strands and stuff then in the middle, or again, use in soil. I've actually used all the block now, and am getting more. When allowed to expand, there is physically more sphagnum there, but it's not as fluffy, and it has more fines and broken stuff. I'm torn. I don't know if the increase makes up for it, and since the stuff is a bit finer., It'll compact a bit more, and is easier to over pack the poles, but not a lot, so in the end you really still only get a bit more. I have started adding bark to my moss poles to add something hard for roots to wrap into and onto, that takes up space and helps airate. Now I see they have a 4.4 lb block. I'm worried it's just as compressed. When you over compress this stuff you lose volume. It gets smaller and packs more.

The reason I haven't given this product five stars is because I still have a few questions and concerns about the product. Many other reviewers mentioned the surprising expansion when this moss is hydrated. It's truly remarkable, and I couldn't believe this little block of compressed moss filled a huge plastic tub when hydrated. I have attached before and after pictures. My concerns are also questions. I have a long history of using very high quality long fiber New Zealand sphagnum moss for remounting and potting species orchids. This moss is virtually unavailable now, or if one can find it, the cost is prohibitive for the amount I need. Therefore, I have been trying different kinds of moss from different sources. The Legigo moss has long fibers and is very clean, free of debris. However, once hydrated, the color turns an odd grey green and has a very strong chemical smell - not the usual organic, earthy smell I am used to from this type of sphagnum. I attached a picture of this moss, taken side by side with some old moss that I removed from a pot where it had been for 3 years. The 3-year old New Zealand sphagnum that I'm discarding looks MUCH better than the new Legigo. When adding to a pot, the Legigo also has a strange consistency. It feels like I am packing mud into the pot, almost sticky feeling. (It's not actually sticky) In summary, all the orchids that I have potted or mounted so far look fine. No immediate problems that I could relate to any moss, but I am curious if anyone else has found this moss a bit unusual - color, smell and consistency? Does anyone know where this moss grows? It looks as if it's shipped from China, but I am wondering where it's grown - in Chile, New Zealand, where?

As other reviews say, this arrives in a compressed rectangle the size of an iPad so I was skeptical. Don't be like me and not read the directions to soak the moss before putting it in the pot or you'll have an explosion of moss the first time you water. It does have a weird, metallic smell, in my opinion, but so far it's doing a good job at maintaining the moisture and looks pretty around my plants.

Hab ewig geschaut, und Preis Leistung für mich dieses Moos am besten. Ableger sind alle am explodieren. Top top 😉

Very over priced, it cost me ₹1449!

منتج سيئ ذو رائحة سيئة وطريقة الإرجاع معقدة جدا وشركة امزون غير متعاونين في عملية الإرجاع

Perfect for making sphagnum moss pole support for my plant and for cuttings grow

Good idea with vacuum. After open the package the moss take the good size.