Looks like your sword is flowering. Great fun for you. Watch for the stalk
end getting too close to the light - especially if you use CFs or Medal
Halide (e.g. HOT) lights. I ultimately opened up the glass cover, jury
rigges one of the strip lights to still be on top of that. The bloom stalk
on mine branched at the water line. Then some of the branches branched
also. I got about 4 nice plants before I gave away the mother plant. I
found that pushing the stem with plant back to the water level seemed to
enhance the root growth although those growing in the air also put out
roots.

My sword took over more than 1/2 my 55 gal and had huge leaves - 18 inches
long and 4 inches wide - when it bloomed. How large is yours?

Bob
"WD" wrote in message
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"Bob Alston" wrote in message
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My swords like iron at their roots. I use Root Tabs plus Iron,
available
at
many LFS. I notice a big improvement from doing just this, along with 3
watts per gallon light. One sword plant bloomed recently in my 55
gallon
tank!

Agree with prior post, if new leaves are coming in and look right, then
don't worry. If new leaves and old ones look the same (shape) but the
older
ones are yellow, suggest the iron. Anyway, you can't hurt by adding the
iron root tabs.

Bob

Put in root tabs when I planted them. All my plants are doing well,
(excepting an unidentified reddish plant with narrow leaves, it was given
to
me, and has never thrived.)
1 of the 3 swords has shot up a long stem, and it seems to be producing
small leaves at the nodes, which appear healthy.
Thanks for the input.