If there are any visitors to this site near the Houston Metro area I invite you to the Texas Gulf Coast Fern Society meetings. Generally on the 3rd Sunday of each month in the Garden Club in Hermann Park. Our next meeting is 20 Jan. I'll be doing a basic level workshop for members and guests on growing ferns from spores. All attendees will be able take home projects. I'll have fresh spore for beginning to advanced growers. Including Phlebodium, Cibotium glaucum, Sadleria, Angiopteris, and mixed Platyceriums. FYI I'm just an uneducated hobbiest, with average experience, thats had a little luck with some ferns.