[fred]

you will learn with watering just how much water to ad and how much keeps the sphag moist
for all those in the dish I place about 5 cups of rain water into the dish that keeps them moist
what you can do is keep your eyes on the sphagnum moss when soaking them
as soon as you see the top of the spag is getting wet you can empty out any remaining water in the dish

it does not take long to notice the difference between drying sphag to moist sphag

for those that have never seen fresh sphagnum moss I will ad some pics
I am not sure if anyone remembers my drive a few weeks ago where I took photos of sphagnum moss growing from the rocks here in Tassie
well I collected some as well I will show you the pics as well.

Edit here is what fresh sphag looks like