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Help with Amazon swordplant (its stemming!)
Hi,
I have an amazon swordplant (Echinodorus grisebachii, I believe) and recently it decided to sprout a stem/runner and headed to the surface with it. Now, a week after, it has sprouted 2-3 leaves in three separate parts of the stem. My concern is whether the plant is not receiving enough light and for this reason sent a runner up, and also whether the stem will take "energy" away from the main plant and kill it (had this happen with another species). If you would like to take a look, I have put a couple of photos up temporarily at http://www.polarpaper.com/roomtank/ Would very much appreciate your comments. Tank is 65 galons, pH is 5 (yeah a bit acidy -but the fish and plants are doing great!), temperature is around 28 °C (82 °F) all day, swordplant leaves are 8.5" long, lighting is a single gro-lux flourescent 12 hours a day, ground beneath the swordplant is a thin layer of stones then a thin layer of black volcanic soil (I'm in Costa Rica) and finally two thick layers of stones, directly above the swordplant is a very rare plant with almost flourescent pink leaves (you get a glimpse of it in the photos), can't say what it is, but it does significantly reduce the light reception for the Echinodorus. Jeremy |
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Help with Amazon swordplant (its stemming!)
That my friend is a new daughter plant. Congratulations. Wait until it
grows a few roots and then you can simply cut the runner which is connecting it to mother grisebacchi and replant it somewhere else. Cheers. I've got one of those baby's (miniature/compact amazon swords) as well which has just started to send out a runner. "Jeremy Pemberton" wrote in message om... Hi, I have an amazon swordplant (Echinodorus grisebachii, I believe) and recently it decided to sprout a stem/runner and headed to the surface with it. Now, a week after, it has sprouted 2-3 leaves in three separate parts of the stem. My concern is whether the plant is not receiving enough light and for this reason sent a runner up, and also whether the stem will take "energy" away from the main plant and kill it (had this happen with another species). If you would like to take a look, I have put a couple of photos up temporarily at http://www.polarpaper.com/roomtank/ Would very much appreciate your comments. Tank is 65 galons, pH is 5 (yeah a bit acidy -but the fish and plants are doing great!), temperature is around 28 °C (82 °F) all day, swordplant leaves are 8.5" long, lighting is a single gro-lux flourescent 12 hours a day, ground beneath the swordplant is a thin layer of stones then a thin layer of black volcanic soil (I'm in Costa Rica) and finally two thick layers of stones, directly above the swordplant is a very rare plant with almost flourescent pink leaves (you get a glimpse of it in the photos), can't say what it is, but it does significantly reduce the light reception for the Echinodorus. Jeremy |
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