The two A. nana cultivars "Wrinkled Leaf" and "Marbled" are fine, doing little as expected of nana.
The unknown/uncertain "Garbon" which dropped nearly all its leaves (went down to 5, count 'em, 5) is now finally showing signs of life and has some new leaves appearing from the denuded areas of the rather heafty rhizome. There has also be some new root growth obvious (since there are so few leaves to block the view). I did not take it emerese as I was considering, so this all happening submerse. It is to me a hopeful sign. Related to nana it may be, but it does not look at all like nana, so potentially will have more interest and perhaps future in our tanks.
Anubias from the recent order...
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I don't know - I admit I have been calling it Gabon myself, but I was filing the print-out of the order and list from your thread, and there it is Garbon.
http://www.gwapa.org/forum/forum_posts. ... &PN=1&TPN= 1
If you still have the hard copy, or email, or whatever from Charley I would appreciate a check on the tentative name before we start planning to propagate. <img border="0" src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0">
But TC of this plant might be a good one. The emerse development in tubes should be faster with a true emerse plant such as Anubias, even discounting the multiplication before it is plated out. That would be fun... I think.
It does not have a patent on it does it? The list should say if it is protected.
The leaf shape is quite good and different from the whole barteri tribe. If it holds that in submerse culture (which we should find out soon if the new growth continues development), it could be very interesting to play with.
Off topic, mostly: Ghazanfar (or anyone else playng with the plant) is your petite nana growing more vertically than horizontally? Mine is looking much as though the rhizomes prefer upright growth. The clumps are significantly taller, but lot a lot wider proportionally. They are not crowded other than in themselves - I left a bit of space expecting that to be the direction of growth.
http://www.gwapa.org/forum/forum_posts. ... &PN=1&TPN= 1
If you still have the hard copy, or email, or whatever from Charley I would appreciate a check on the tentative name before we start planning to propagate. <img border="0" src="smileys/smiley2.gif" border="0">
But TC of this plant might be a good one. The emerse development in tubes should be faster with a true emerse plant such as Anubias, even discounting the multiplication before it is plated out. That would be fun... I think.
It does not have a patent on it does it? The list should say if it is protected.
The leaf shape is quite good and different from the whole barteri tribe. If it holds that in submerse culture (which we should find out soon if the new growth continues development), it could be very interesting to play with.
Off topic, mostly: Ghazanfar (or anyone else playng with the plant) is your petite nana growing more vertically than horizontally? Mine is looking much as though the rhizomes prefer upright growth. The clumps are significantly taller, but lot a lot wider proportionally. They are not crowded other than in themselves - I left a bit of space expecting that to be the direction of growth.
For some time with the nana petite, I saw no growth only a pair of leaves in ~2 months. Once i had finished my highlight setup, I tied them to a rock along with some java moss. For some time I allowed the Javamoss to grow unchecked and mostly cover the anubias, but i always was able to see the top of the plant. Once i trimmed the moss back I found mostly enough horizontal growth that i could split the rhizome easily into two plants of 4 leaves.
More recently I have left these two plants floating, the current pushes them through the tank and where they land really doesn't matter to me. One plant has been in the front glass, and the other shaded in the back corner. I haven't pulled the shaded plant out, but the one in front got knocked loose during feeding time. I took a look while it was floating, and I believe i have 10 leaves on this plant and nearly no horizontal growth of the rhizome. I expect much more horizontal growth out of the shaded one, and less leaves. I haven't inspected it closely, but it definately has fewer new growth leaves than the unshaded. I believe that the unshaded portion contains the oldest growth too.
If your interested, I can take a closer look and write out what i find-this is all from memory.
More recently I have left these two plants floating, the current pushes them through the tank and where they land really doesn't matter to me. One plant has been in the front glass, and the other shaded in the back corner. I haven't pulled the shaded plant out, but the one in front got knocked loose during feeding time. I took a look while it was floating, and I believe i have 10 leaves on this plant and nearly no horizontal growth of the rhizome. I expect much more horizontal growth out of the shaded one, and less leaves. I haven't inspected it closely, but it definately has fewer new growth leaves than the unshaded. I believe that the unshaded portion contains the oldest growth too.
If your interested, I can take a closer look and write out what i find-this is all from memory.
Cory- my clumps are not shaded and all are multiple-leafed. Actually I may have a shaded one somewhere, as I lost one in the early days before I got the message to pin them down. So somewhere buried in the conventional A. nana carpeting the back half of the tank, there should be one heavily shaded clump, first under the surface floating Crinum leaves, them buried in the nana carpet which is also Java moss infested. But the primary interest was in the front row survivors, which act more like miniature shrubs than most other nana.
