Lagenandra thwaitesii spathe!

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Lagenandra thwaitesii spathe!

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I have been growing emersed Cryptocoryne and Lagenandra for over a year now, and they have steadfastly refused to flower for me. This has been immensely frustrating, because the whole reason I started growing them emersed was to get them to flower.

I recently changed up my emersed setup, which had been housed in a 40 breeder fish tank with 4″ or so of water, and transfered a small handful of my emersed plants into the 75g terrarium where I keep our Nepenthes. I just used a square plastic tub about 5″ tall, and put about 3-4″ of water in it.

Something about the change in conditions must have induced the Lagenandra (which had been growing quite vigorously over the last few months) to throw up a spathe I only noticed tonight:
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The new emersed setup:
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thats most defenitly going to make up for it all!!! :mrgreen:
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Congrats Chris! Nice looking spath and plants
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Nice job.
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Sweet! :D Nice job man.
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Nice! Welcome to the club!
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hey Chris, did you get a full flower shot after it opened? (did) it open? :D
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I've been checking every night, but it hasn't opened yet. It's teasing me, darnit!
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Post by chris_todd »

Damian, your query obviously did it - the spathe is open! I snapped some pics, but need to process them, and will post them later tonight. It's beautiful.
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lol, great!! 8)
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