Flowering Sword
 

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has had experience with their Amazon Sword sending
up flower spikes? I started using PMDD about a month ago and since then my
tank has taken off... I am dosing at 1ml a day, which keeps my Fe at .4ppm
which appears to be right for my tank, it's great as I was having serious
problems with trying to stablise my Fe using the Dupla ferts...

Anyways, my sword has sent up a 2.5' spike with about 3 branches on it and
it has flower buds, but the don't seem to be flowering... I can see the
purple petals inside the buds, but they have been there for about 2 weeks
and are not doing anything... Some of the buds have leaves surrounding them
also. I have been drippling water down them about once a day as the MH
light appears to be drying them out... Is this what I have done wrong? I
just want to get it right, as there is another flower spike coming up now
and I would love it to flower...

I have done a search on the net and it says that the stalks will not flower
submersed, they will just grow more swords, but as most of the flower buds
have grown above the tank they should flower right?

Any advise would be great.

thanks.

Justin.

Justin wrote:
Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has had experience with their Amazon Sword
sending up flower spikes? I started using PMDD about a month ago and
since then my tank has taken off... I am dosing at 1ml a day, which
keeps my Fe at .4ppm which appears to be right for my tank, it's great
as I was having serious problems with trying to stablise my Fe using the
Dupla ferts...

Anyways, my sword has sent up a 2.5' spike with about 3 branches on it
and it has flower buds, but the don't seem to be flowering... I can see
the purple petals inside the buds, but they have been there for about 2
weeks and are not doing anything... Some of the buds have leaves
surrounding them also. I have been drippling water down them about once
a day as the MH light appears to be drying them out... Is this what I
have done wrong? I just want to get it right, as there is another
flower spike coming up now and I would love it to flower...

I have done a search on the net and it says that the stalks will not
flower submersed, they will just grow more swords, but as most of the
flower buds have grown above the tank they should flower right?

Any advise would be great.

thanks.

Justin.

I had a E. Uruguayensis flower outdoors this sumer. Like yours, it put
a stalk up emersed. The leaves and buds were on there for at least a
month before they opened, and the flowers opened one or two at a time
for the next two months. They were fragrant too! This spike was
growing in direct sunlight and didn't need any special treatment.

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Elaine T __
http://eethomp.com/fish.html '__
rec.aquaria.* FAQ http://faq.thekrib.com

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Justin wrote:
Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has had experience with their Amazon Sword
sending up flower spikes? I started using PMDD about a month ago and
since then my tank has taken off... I am dosing at 1ml a day, which
keeps my Fe at .4ppm which appears to be right for my tank, it's great as
I was having serious problems with trying to stablise my Fe using the
Dupla ferts...

Anyways, my sword has sent up a 2.5' spike with about 3 branches on it
and it has flower buds, but the don't seem to be flowering... I can see
the purple petals inside the buds, but they have been there for about 2
weeks and are not doing anything... Some of the buds have leaves
surrounding them also. I have been drippling water down them about once
a day as the MH light appears to be drying them out... Is this what I
have done wrong? I just want to get it right, as there is another flower
spike coming up now and I would love it to flower...

I have done a search on the net and it says that the stalks will not
flower submersed, they will just grow more swords, but as most of the
flower buds have grown above the tank they should flower right?

Any advise would be great.

thanks.

Justin.

I had a E. Uruguayensis flower outdoors this sumer. Like yours, it put a
stalk up emersed. The leaves and buds were on there for at least a month
before they opened, and the flowers opened one or two at a time for the
next two months. They were fragrant too! This spike was growing in
direct sunlight and didn't need any special treatment.

--
Elaine T __
http://eethomp.com/fish.html '__
rec.aquaria.* FAQ http://faq.thekrib.com


My amazon sword just sent up a stalk, has 4 tiny little plants along the
length. It is so interesting to see how different plants reproduce.