We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?

TIA

John

We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?


They propagate by runners, water hyacints will take over even a large pond in
just a few weeks under the right circumstances.

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They will send out rhizome, and new stem form from that. Soon, you'll
have to thin them because they take over the pond. Flowers are for show.
I haven't seen any new stems from them.

John Bachman wrote:

We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?

TIA

John

Does a bear fertilize the flora in a forest?

If they are growing at all they will send out puppies.


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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:10:07 -0400, John Bachman
wrote:

We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?

If you're in the south, Water hyacinth will become a creeping monster. It's
super-agressive, and smothers huge lakes and waterways. If you decide to
remove it, put it on concrete until it turns brown. It's a very harmful
alien plant, and we wouldn't want to spread it.

Bob

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:10:07 -0400, John Bachman
wrote:

We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?


They need warmth to take off (and some potash if you have fish, full
fertilizer if not). They suck nutrients up like crazy - The University of
Vermont has even experimented with them in "green houses" to scrub sewage.
VT is too cold for them to survive in the winter and most lakes are too cool
for them to spread very much in one summer. Thus they are no treat as an
invasive species in VT.

They are illegal in many southern states - in FL, one plant can have 3
million offspring in one season via natural vegetative reproduction!

They normally propagate via multiple side sprouts, each growing one pant
which quickly starts sending out it's own sprouts. I don't know if "sprouts"
is the correct word, it isn't "runner" because only one plant forms from
each, it isn't rizome since there is no food storage in the "sprout".

In MA Z6, mine just sit there until things warm up. Usually by later July
I'm composting them by the bushel.

gerry

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They need warmth to take off (and some potash if you have fish, full
fertilizer if not). They suck nutrients up like crazy - The University of
Vermont has even experimented with them in "green houses" to scrub sewage.
VT is too cold for them to survive in the winter and most lakes are too
cool
for them to spread very much in one summer. Thus they are no treat as an
invasive species in VT.


Where do you find fertilizer that has a low nitrogen and low phosphorus
content, and is fairly high in potash?

Sameer

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"gerry" wrote in message
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They need warmth to take off (and some potash if you have fish, full
fertilizer if not). They suck nutrients up like crazy - The University of
Vermont has even experimented with them in "green houses" to scrub sewage.
VT is too cold for them to survive in the winter and most lakes are too
cool
for them to spread very much in one summer. Thus they are no treat as an
invasive species in VT.


Where do you find fertilizer that has a low nitrogen and low phosphorus
content, and is fairly high in potash?

Sameer

If you don't need much, Flora Fin by Tetra is Potash. Otherwise, you
can get rock form from a water conditioning co.

WH seem to flower best if you contain them into a overcrowded space.

jay
Sun, Jun 15, 2003


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I had one hyacinth 2 weeks ago and now it has spread out and made two
more plants. I can see where i am going to be killing some off.




On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:59:34 -0400, gerry
wrote:

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:10:07 -0400, John Bachman
wrote:

We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?


They need warmth to take off (and some potash if you have fish, full
fertilizer if not). They suck nutrients up like crazy - The University of
Vermont has even experimented with them in "green houses" to scrub sewage.
VT is too cold for them to survive in the winter and most lakes are too cool
for them to spread very much in one summer. Thus they are no treat as an
invasive species in VT.

They are illegal in many southern states - in FL, one plant can have 3
million offspring in one season via natural vegetative reproduction!

They normally propagate via multiple side sprouts, each growing one pant
which quickly starts sending out it's own sprouts. I don't know if "sprouts"
is the correct word, it isn't "runner" because only one plant forms from
each, it isn't rizome since there is no food storage in the "sprout".

In MA Z6, mine just sit there until things warm up. Usually by later July
I'm composting them by the bushel.

gerry

Float them...they'll come!

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"John Bachman" wrote in message
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We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?

TIA

John

HAH, that could be the understatement of the year......last summer I pulled
them out with two hands and my feet wedged against the rocks to get a good
pull.....a battle.....I can only imagine how destructive they are down south.

Maureen

Water hyacinths exhibit two major forms of propagation: vegetative
reproduction occurs when daughter plants are formed along stolons
(runners), and under ideal conditions rates of new plant production
are unbelievable; sexual reproduction is achieved through seed
production.

Never release water hyacinths into the wild, and make sure they are
legal to possess in your state.

John Bachman wrote:

We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?

TIA

John

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:31:11 GMT, "Snooze" wrote:


"gerry" wrote in message
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They need warmth to take off (and some potash if you have fish, full
fertilizer if not). They suck nutrients up like crazy - The University of
Vermont has even experimented with them in "green houses" to scrub sewage.
VT is too cold for them to survive in the winter and most lakes are too
cool
for them to spread very much in one summer. Thus they are no treat as an
invasive species in VT.


Where do you find fertilizer that has a low nitrogen and low phosphorus
content, and is fairly high in potash?

I add just potash, 0-0-60. Just about any good garden center has it in 5 lb
bags. You don't need much.

gerry

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If you give them lots of sun they will EXPLODE. We went on vacation last
summer and when we came back 2 weeks later the whole pond was chock full
of them. However, with little sun I find they grow much much slower.

John Bachman wrote:
We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?

TIA

John

I can't get them to grow no matter what I do!

D.S.


"Michael Shaffer" wrote in message
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If you give them lots of sun they will EXPLODE. We went on vacation last
summer and when we came back 2 weeks later the whole pond was chock full
of them. However, with little sun I find they grow much much slower.

John Bachman wrote:
We have two water hyacinths in our new pond and they seem to be doing
well. They have doubled in size and appear healthy but have not
bloomed yet. Will they propagate? If so, how?

TIA

John