skaffen Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Hiya - my swords have sent out runners to the surface, and the runners have little swords growing along them. How long should I wait before trying to plant the babies? I'll be giving them away if anyone's keen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supasi Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Wait till they have half a dozen leaves per plant. Then you should be able to bend the stalk back toward the base of mother plant, and plantlets should break off easily. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 just as soon as the roots are long enough i think. ask alanmin - he knoweth all about plants :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 All of the above soundeth pletty goot to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navarre Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 What sort of swords? He asketh Navarre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navarre Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 What sort of swords? He asketh Navarre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 he even asketh it twice!! lol :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaffen Posted January 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Umm, green ones? No idea, sorry Thanks for the help, I'll repost when they are ready for a new home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Give us a hint (he asketh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navarre Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 But at least not Thrice. Might it be a preponderance to ask one to describe the general conditions of such a leafy edifice. One may impose oneself and ask for a photograhpic representation but one does have troubles viewing such conflagerations at this propensity. Yours in all good faith Sirs Navarre Esq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Are you insinuating that this person is more fluent in Outer Mongolian than me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 you two are trouble id hate to see both you 2getha in person if its got plantlets then its doin really well keep doin what u are doing depending on how big you want to grow them before you pass them on , i normally let the get roots the cut off a runner with 5 or 6 plantlets on it then cut them up separatly they grow so quickly though they will prevent light from getting to plants underneath them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 It depends how greedy you are. If you remove the plants off the runner some of the smaller ones will grow as well later but if you cut the runner you will probably lose them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaffen Posted January 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Said runner doth possess an aspect that is pleasing to mine eye. Methinks nature shall run her course. Some of the upper plantlets are partially emersed, will they be OK when immersed again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Echinodorus species have bisexual flowers and the emersed flowers may set viable seeds that will grow. Emersed plants don't normally have roots but the leaves develop more quickly than submersed because they get more light. When the plant has plenty of leaves you can drop the crown into the water and it will grow roots. The alternave is to put lead weights on the runner and keep all the baby plants submersed and obtain all submersed growth with roots. Whatever takes your fancy. Where da pic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navarre Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 Also watch the new leaves on your lights. They might burn/ dry out And I would never prepose such a preposterous happenstance Alan. If one shall continue to follow such progressiveness one shall be enticed to suggest one is insinuating that ones very malesness is at question. (I mean I am a nurse discussing the propiagtion and flowering of plants...oh how I hope the boys in my rugby team dont find out) However....one does bow to your hitchikers guide like knowledge of all things plantish...(speaking of bisexual flowers)....an elf in a past life perhaps? And now back to skaffen...if proposed vista doth please thyn eye as much as mine then pray continue. But heed this advise as it is given from The Voice of all things plantish, it is gave in good faith and hopefull recieaved as such. Live Long and Prosper in a learned environ for a rose by any other name shall be still a rose And for those of you following this happenstance count the references in that prose for now looking at a his watch, I must be off for I am ever so late it must be said, and if I am late again twill be off with my head. ROFLMAO Navarre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaffen Posted January 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 My brain hurts now! I'll post a pic when I get home. Thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 :lol: I had no idea this was going to be such a funny thread when I clicked on it! With all this talk of swords the blokes have gone all knightly. Is there such a thing as a dagger plant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zabman Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 :lol: I had no idea this was going to be such a funny thread when I clicked on it! With all this talk of swords the blokes have gone all knightly. Is there such a thing as a dagger plant? Probably! Jimmy the hand would be right into that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 14, 2009 Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 He would just look daggers at someone while he ran them through with his sword :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 If this was parliament the speaker would add the word bisexual to the list of dubious words permitted in chambers. I am glad to see that this reference to the sexuality of flowers has been taken in the spirit it was meant. How could it be any other way--My grandmother was an english suffragette who signed the pledge at an early age. My how things have changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew_W Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 how do they do their thing without the birds and the bees? are there male and female plants, or do they just release stuff into the water :oops: Do you need more than one, or can a plant reproduce by it self??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 They can produce plantlets vegetatively by themselves and have flowers that are both male and female. Some plants propagate vegetavely and have seperate male and female flowers eg. Sagittaria. Some swords are more likely to produce viable seeds than others. I put a runner grown emersed from E.martii into water to encourage it to grow roots--which it did, but a while later there were baby plants growing in the bottom of the tank and small plants floating round the top. They are not that easy to grow on though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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