Hey everyone.
I’ve just been gifted a closed terrarium that’s roughly 3 years old. It’s completely overgrown with moss and doesn’t really look that nice anymore – just a bit wild and unbalanced.
I’m new to all this and not sure what my options are. Should I trim everything back? Try to refresh it somehow? Or maybe split it into another jar entirely?
Would love any advice or tips. Thanks so much!
by Character-Ratio-4220
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I haven’t had the chance to have a terrarium that old but if I were you, I would just trim, clean up and wait for new growth. You can still try other options after
It depends what you want, all sealed terrariums with records of them thriving as closed biosphers look wild like yours. If you’re curious of how many years yours will thrive like this, do nothing.
If you want only esthetic looking terrariums, cut those plants back and use those cuttings to create new beautiful terrariums.
Both ways are interesting, but if you had this recently gifted, and the person didn’t mentioned how long it’s already closed like that, and you’re interested to create other terrariums, I would at least open it once and trim those plants down and use those cuttings for other terrariums, since they’re free 😄.
After this, you still can add a date when you last opened it and go from there and watch it grow into a jungle again.