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moving plants around
hi all,
I'm thinking about moving one of my well-established amazon sword plant few inches from its current position.. (tank is currently free-standing, but i'm moving it to be against a wall, so I'm thinkng about moving the taller plants towards the back of the tank) the killer is that my tank has UGF, and the plant has well-established itself in the past 4 years... so i expect the roots to be completely entanlged with the UGF plating... so.. I'll probably have to sever most of the root system off to do this. how damaging is this kind of move to a sword plant? or should I just leave it? linda |
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On 19 Feb 2006 23:45:42 -0800, "LM" wrote:
hi all, I'm thinking about moving one of my well-established amazon sword plant few inches from its current position.. (tank is currently free-standing, but i'm moving it to be against a wall, so I'm thinkng about moving the taller plants towards the back of the tank) the killer is that my tank has UGF, and the plant has well-established itself in the past 4 years... so i expect the roots to be completely entanlged with the UGF plating... so.. I'll probably have to sever most of the root system off to do this. how damaging is this kind of move to a sword plant? or should I just leave it? linda I just got a new plant book and it shows that the roots should be cut short when moving the plant, or when planting them. so, based on that, I'd say, go for it, it won't hurt much, if any. |
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"LM" wrote in message oups.com... how damaging is this kind of move to a sword plant? or should I just leave it? ======================= I did that one time and killed a beautiful plant. It never recovered. I suspect there was too much root damage for it to recover. I've since removed all the UGFs due to them being too hard to clean. Hopefully the next time I want to move a large plant it will recover. -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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On 19 Feb 2006 23:45:42 -0800, "LM" wrote:
hi all, I'm thinking about moving one of my well-established amazon sword plant few inches from its current position.. (tank is currently free-standing, but i'm moving it to be against a wall, so I'm thinkng about moving the taller plants towards the back of the tank) the killer is that my tank has UGF, and the plant has well-established itself in the past 4 years... so i expect the roots to be completely entanlged with the UGF plating... so.. I'll probably have to sever most of the root system off to do this. how damaging is this kind of move to a sword plant? or should I just leave it? linda I don't have any Amazon Swords, but I do move plants and separate plants with very reliable results, but not 100%. Not so much a problem with moving plants, but with making 2 from 1. My Anubias tend to get too large for their tank. Dividing them usually works, but not always. dick |
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seems like might be best to leave the amazon... may be I'll do some
selective pruning, and slooowly coax the plant to move in the direction I want it to go. I have anubias that is getting a little out of hand.. I'll definitely have to make at least 3 cuttings from it (and also decide what to do with all the off-shoots) and give it away or sell it to my LFS for credit (they have expressed interest in taking tank-grown plants). the one that is really overtaking the tank are java ferns, but they seem relatively indestructible, so I'm not all that worried about them. (they really grow like weeds and sprawl out everywhere, don't they?) |
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