umm, should have mentioned that i had water in there too, sorry.
"Dave Millman" wrote in message
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Kate Quirk wrote:

Hi,

Two of my amazon swords recently sent out plant spikes with numerous
baby
plants along them. As I don't have room in my tank for any more amazon
swords, I waited until the little plants developed roots, and then
planted
them out in a plastic tub. The tub is about 20cm deep, and into it I
put
some soil, some of the (in)famous jobes plant spikes, and a thin layer
of
gravel, and then left it in a shady position on the patio. This was
clearly
the wrong thing to do. All of the plants are looking fairly sick. The
leaves they had when planted out are dying back (which I partly
expected),
but all of the new growth seems to quickly become transparent and die
back
too.

Kate,

Since so many commercial aquarium plants are grown emersed (out of water),
I did
exactly what you did, with exactly the same results. Next stem that came
up, I
planted the babies underwater and never looked back.