An Ozelot sword has thrown a stalk up and out of my tank at work and it's flowering and sprouting plantlets. Is there anything special I should do? Pollinate the flowers maybe? At what point can I cut the stalk and replant the plantlets? There are no roots forming that I can see.
Doug
Echinodorus x 'Ozelot' flowering
On an interesting side note, for me at least. I've been having problems with warped leaves and holes on the A reineckii and to a lesser extent the ozelot in this tank. Thinking it was a calcium deficiency, I tried supplementing calcium to the water bringing the hardness to 12+ gH. But this had no real effect that I could tell for the couple weeks I tried this solution. Then I recently read that potassium and nitrate excesses can affect the ability of plants to uptake calcium. So on my last water change, I did not dose any potassium. The growth of the plantlet leaves seem to confirm this theory.
The leaf on the right sprouted pre-water change. The leaf on the left sprouted post-water change. I was surprised to see results so quickly. Hopefully dosing less K will lead to better submersed growth going forward.
Couple other pictures of the Oz stalk:
Doug
The leaf on the right sprouted pre-water change. The leaf on the left sprouted post-water change. I was surprised to see results so quickly. Hopefully dosing less K will lead to better submersed growth going forward.
Couple other pictures of the Oz stalk:
Doug
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They should they're actually bog plants.
I grow most of my Echinodorus emersed like houseplants. Right now my E. 'Red Flame' is growing in garden soil in a standard 4 inch which is itself in a 6 inch decorative cache pot 1/2 full of water. It has been blooming for about 2 or 3 weeks now. Last year my E. 'Kleiner Bar', which I grow emersed as a bog plant in my 55 gallon pond, bloomed all summer long. I had over 3 dozen flower stalks with flowers and plantlets that I was pinning down into the garden around the pond to root. Unfortunately, I didn't get it out of the pond in time and although the main plant survived a freeze, the plantlets did not.
Cheers.
Jim
I grow most of my Echinodorus emersed like houseplants. Right now my E. 'Red Flame' is growing in garden soil in a standard 4 inch which is itself in a 6 inch decorative cache pot 1/2 full of water. It has been blooming for about 2 or 3 weeks now. Last year my E. 'Kleiner Bar', which I grow emersed as a bog plant in my 55 gallon pond, bloomed all summer long. I had over 3 dozen flower stalks with flowers and plantlets that I was pinning down into the garden around the pond to root. Unfortunately, I didn't get it out of the pond in time and although the main plant survived a freeze, the plantlets did not.
Cheers.
Jim
