Handsfree Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Attached are some photos of one of my plants that has recently shot out a flower stem. The Mother plant has reached the top of a standard 3' tank and you can just see the flower stalk exiting the top right. The flowers appeared over a few days, each flower lasting less than 2 days before disintegrating. I waited for the seed pod to swell and develop, but nothing happened. Then tiny plants started to appear and grew into what you see in the Plantlet photo. You can still see the remnants of the flower stems. My logic says this plant is a hybrid incapable of producing seeds, but reproduces vegetatively. At the moment the plantlets are still aerial, however, I plan to submerge them soon and they should develop roots and become independent of the mother plant. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Thats pretty cool! I had a sword that dit that once. It produced about 50 baby swords on its flowering stem, but they were all submerged. I found that once they got to a certain size roots sarted to develop from the base of each plant. Mabey you could sumberge the babies and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 That is SO interesting. The most excitement I ever got from plants was when my aponogeton got a flower spike. This looks like much more fun :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splendidbetta Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 That's VERY interesting! :betta: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pritch33 Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 hey Handsfree congrats on the baby plants but im with phill i would try and get them submersed the sooner the better as they are emersed grown they may suffer die back when they are submersed if you plan to plant them Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handsfree Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Thanks for the suggestions folks. My intention is to submerge them, trouble is finding the space, the tank is overgrown with all manner of plants. Maybe it's time for some heavy duty pruning. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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