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msghael
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 Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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Hi all
Please see the photograph below :  .
This is one of the plants I have had from day one ie 5 months ago. What is the name of this. It's growing where I had planted hygrophilias. It is close to the location of the aponogatons. The leaf does not look like the hygrohilia nor do my existing aponogatons have a stem like these. In the old ones the leaves break out from the base.
Also do I cut the plant as shown in the photograph and plant the top ? What do I do with the bottom part ?
A number of these ball shaped parts with a couple of leaves keeps breaking away and I have not been able to plant it so that it survives.
Thank you in advance
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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It is an aponogeton crispus, that too a mother plant.
Yes -- cut the rhizome and replant after they have grown at least a couple roots. The bigger the rhizome when you cut it the more energy it has stored and the better the chances of plantlet to survive.
After you remove the plantlet you can remove the stalk if you want. Cut it from the bottom, if you pull the mother plant might get uprooted. |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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Not too sure about this
But my understanding is that A. Crispus is a bulb plant. Mine doesn't look anything like that. So I don't think that it's A. Crispus
I might be wrong, I am just a dumb newbie |
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msghael
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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Thank you Arnab,
Correct me if I am wrong and pl do ignore my ignorance :
I allow the rhizome to stay on the plant till it gives out roots.
I then cut off the rizome and then, do I plant it so that the rizome is above the subtrate as in the case of Anubias or can it be burried and than pulled out so that the rizome just shows above the substrate and the rest of the rizome, roots and the cut stem is burried ?
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msghael
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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I too was under the impression that the A crispus is a bulb plant
I am a newbie too now learning to pronounce the names of the palnts leave alone how to propagate them.
That too at a post retirement age !!!!!!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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If you do not cut it from the stem, you will see roots coming out of the bulb and stem is getting rotten slowly. The plantlet will then flow in the water with few roots. that's the best time to replant it.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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| msghael wrote (View Post):
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Thank you Arnab,
Correct me if I am wrong and pl do ignore my ignorance :
I allow the rhizome to stay on the plant till it gives out roots.
I then cut off the rizome and then, do I plant it so that the rizome is above the subtrate as in the case of Anubias or can it be burried and than pulled out so that the rizome just shows above the substrate and the rest of the rizome, roots and the cut stem is burried ?
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Maninder
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That's precisely it -- you do not need to keep the rhizome exposed to water, you can (and should) bury it keeping just the crown exposed. FWIW, with A. Crispus -- sometimes a plantlet itself shoots one or more plantlets -- you can just plant the main plantlet.
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I too was under the impression that the A crispus is a bulb plant
I am a newbie too now learning to pronounce the names of the palnts leave alone how to propagate them.
That too at a post retirement age !!!!!!
Regards
Maninder
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BTW -- with A. Crispus at least -- the bulb IS a type of rhizome :)
Post-retirement is the best time -- enjoy! |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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| This is aponogeton crispus, no need to cut the plantlets, they will detach themselves when they are ready... |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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May be aponogeton ulvaceus ?
I just cut it from the stem[stalk?] and planted it, and it grew. The lower stalk will then rott away.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: Re: Help in trimming and plant ID |
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Thank you all for a response to a question which to most of you would be trivial but to me the answers have been extremely educative. I suppose that is one of the functions of a forum such as IAH
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Maninder Singh |
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