Crypt pygmea flower. :D

[Aaron]

My first one!

The setup is as follows:
5.5 gallon AGA tank
RO water
Silver Maple leaf compost collected from underneath my parent's yearly leaf pile. This pile is several years old. I dug back and got the nice black looking leaves that where partially decomposed. I mixed equal parts of that, peat moss and pool filter sand. The moss around the plant is an unkown moss that us GWAPA folks got from Amano back at the 2004 AGA. It's doing well emersed to. It's intended purpose is to stave off fungus.

I lightly fertilized this tank only once in a month and a half with 1/5 the recommended amount of Miracle grow in a misting bottle. The room is heated to about 73 degrees or so.

Here's one of the setup:


Here's one of the whole plant:


And here's a closeup of the flower:

[krisw]

Very cool! What are the other crypts you're trying to flower? Also, what Kelvin lighting do you have overhead to induce flowering?

[Ghazanfar Ghori]

Very cool!

[Aaron]

It's just a regular twin T8 shoplight w/ Phillips 6,700k daylight bulbs from Home Depot. This one isn't overdriven like my other one is.

I have ideii, minima, albida and another one that I think is griffithii also in that tank. I need to setup another tank so I can get some more going.

[krisw]

Great! So, with the pygmea, have you looked it up to make sure that it is indeed pygmea? I'm not doubting you, I'm just assuming that the reason you were flowering it was to confirm identity? Or, are you just experimenting for experimentation's sake? (nothing wrong with either)

[Aaron]

The person I got it from already ID'd it from flowering it. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to compare notes though.

[SCMurphy]

That is a pygmea flower, it is very distinctive.

[Ghazanfar Ghori]

I second that. Looks like there is another flower on the way.