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Cultivating plants
I have several different plants growing in a 10 gallon tank. Most were
bought from bulbs at Wal-Mart, so I am not sure what they are - MOST of them seem to be aponogeton plants, which seem to be about the only frickin' bulbs from Wal-Mart that will grow. One other that did sprout claims to be some sort of lily pad type of plant. The other two that seem to grow were bought as potted plants from a LFS, but I have no idea what they are - one threw off a runner that is growing nicely. I will post pics of the tank to alt.binaries.aquaria for reference if that is any help. I am running 2 DIY soda bottles for c02 changed alternately every week directly into my power filter, which has made an amazing difference in plant growth. My questions a 1. Can anyone positively ID the plants from the pictures... 2. On the care and pruning of the plants... I have had one plant put out one successfully planted and cultivated runner. How can I make the plants that I have put out more? Or how can I successfully take parts of the plants that I have now by selectively pruning and planting - and get more plants? I need to know the best way to cut back a little growth because this tank is taking off, and I have an empty (cycled) tank with a plant substrate that I would LOVE to take some overgrowth from the other tank and start another planted tank! Basically, it boils down to what types of cutting from an established plant is viable as a new plant... TIA ---scott |
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I had a much better experience with Wal-Mart bulbs. I planted 4 Apons and 3
Lilies. All of the bulbs sprouted except 1 of the Apons. If you get a runner you can just cut the runner just before the roots of the new plant ( after it has enough of its own roots to survive the replanting ). "Scott" smaxell1{at}hotmail.com wrote in message ... I have several different plants growing in a 10 gallon tank. Most were bought from bulbs at Wal-Mart, so I am not sure what they are - MOST of them seem to be aponogeton plants, which seem to be about the only frickin' bulbs from Wal-Mart that will grow. One other that did sprout claims to be some sort of lily pad type of plant. The other two that seem to grow were bought as potted plants from a LFS, but I have no idea what they are - one threw off a runner that is growing nicely. I will post pics of the tank to alt.binaries.aquaria for reference if that is any help. I am running 2 DIY soda bottles for c02 changed alternately every week directly into my power filter, which has made an amazing difference in plant growth. My questions a 1. Can anyone positively ID the plants from the pictures... 2. On the care and pruning of the plants... I have had one plant put out one successfully planted and cultivated runner. How can I make the plants that I have put out more? Or how can I successfully take parts of the plants that I have now by selectively pruning and planting - and get more plants? I need to know the best way to cut back a little growth because this tank is taking off, and I have an empty (cycled) tank with a plant substrate that I would LOVE to take some overgrowth from the other tank and start another planted tank! Basically, it boils down to what types of cutting from an established plant is viable as a new plant... TIA ---scott |
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