1. Are you sure you have cattails? There's other rushes that
grow in swamps.

2. It can take several years for the cattails to establish well
enough to form cobs; this may be a patience issue.

3. Cattails prefer slightly acid water; they'll grow in other
conditions but aren't likely to fruit.

Chris Owens

Roy Hauer wrote:

I dug some cat tails up from a swampy area and planted them in my
ponds inlet and outlet waterways. They multipled, and have grown
great, and are doing what I had wanted. However, none of them have
gotten the so called brownish colored cob thing on them yet. Is there
different types that do and don't have this cob? It matters not,
weathwer they have the cob or not, since as all I was looking for was
to make an area to fill in with some type of vegetation when the
water level gets low, and not have to look at weeds and mud, and since
they grow in relatively shallow areas do not have to worry about them
taking over my entire pond.

The question is just out of curiosty not need.
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