oeminx Posted June 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 well if you get seeds this time can you send me some? Sure, it will be about 2 weeks before it spits its seeds out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 9, 2009 Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 :bounce: :bounce: that "sure" must have taken a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted June 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 Not really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted June 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 Well after saying that i still haven't had any luck with the seeds, was siting in front of my tank and saw a lotus seedling float by :oops: After a quick search of the substrate I have collected around 20 of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted June 10, 2009 Report Share Posted June 10, 2009 lol.. awesome. :bounce: if i get seeds ill put them with daltons in their own tank with good lighting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clintrockevans Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hi, have been reading your post re the tiger lotus, absolutely amazing story that you have documented. It is truely fascinating... Its so unreal, I have never seen anything like it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Well thank you 8) I'm up to the 4th flower out the top and I can see a 5th at the base :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 selling the mother plant? ha ha :lol: kidding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 :lol: :lol: You don't even have a planted tank any more P44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 things can be arranged. this lack of plants is driving me mad! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 you should buy the jewel lido :lol: and keep it at my place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 :lol: more like chuck out the africans and get my plants back. i even have uruaguensis growing in a friends tank with my lotus and her pups and all the hastifolia. congo fern is being hunted for ATM lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 I got some Amazon swords if you want them :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 NO! :lol: I must not. not until i have a stable place to live in. AKA my own house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 I love my plants, every morning waking up to a lush green aqua scape at night going to bed to the sweet smell of tiger lotus flowers, Really this is the life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 i wake up and see a schist jungle. :-? and a sprig of indian fern for nitrate removal :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 MY TIGER LOTUS SEEDS HAVE GERMINATED! :bounce: :bounce: Ok, let's say that TWO of the seeds have germinated (out of the whole package that oeminx mailed to me). I put a handful of seeds into three containers: One with just water One with water and gravel One with water, gravel and JBL balls I kept the containers on top of my tank so the temperature would be reasonably stable. I had given up on the seeds ever germinating and was pretty much ready just to chuck them out, but being lazy I left them there. Then yesterday I looked in and saw some tiny, tiny green leaves in the container with the JBL balls in it. Hooray! Obviously they are not in ideal germination conditions (I suspect too cold overnight, not enough light). But I have certainly discovered that the container with the JBL balls is the only successful germination medium so that's an interesting result. I think I will transplant the seedlings into my main tank, with a JBL ball under each one and an upturned glass on top like a cloche, so the fish can't eat the seedlings. Then I will keep all three containers on top of the tank to see if anything else happens. It's possible the seeds might lie dormant until the ambient temperature rises a bit in the spring. Will be interesting to see if anything happens then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted July 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Good to hear :bounce: :bounce: I don't think that the need a lot of light to germinate, I have a number of then that have germinated under the leaves of another lotus so that was next to no light. Keep us posted Update from me I have had my 3rd pod explode on me, I had a plastic bag rubber banded around it this time which made it easy to collected the seeds . I am drying some of the seeds from this pod to see if they will still germinate after. 4th flower has just stopped flowering (was pollinated with the 2nd flower) 5th flower is 10mm tall at the base And have lots of seedling sprouting all over the bottom of my tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 ... have lots of seedling sprouting all over the bottom of my tank. Yes, I suspect I would have had much more luck with germination if I had just put the seeds straight into the tank rather than in the containers. Unfortunately I have some very diggie fish (clown loaches) and some fish that love their fresh vegetables (bristlenoses and pretty much all the barbs) so I don't like the chances of the seedlings surviving on their own in there. Your seedlings obviously haven't succumbed to nibbling fish. Well done! I'm hoping I can keep mine protected in their mini-greenhouse long enough to get their roots established and hopefully their leaves will toughen up a bit before I expose them to hungry fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oeminx Posted July 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 ok so, my lotus has got two flower buds at the same time, they are both about the same size and it is looking like i might have two flowers at once . So a question for anyone who can answer, with the two flowers have a same genetic make up? and is would there be any benefit in cross pollinating between the two flowers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 that would depend if the flowers are male or female I'd say. they will be twins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 They must be bisexual because viable seeds were produced from one flower a while ago. They will be genetically the same as they are both from the same plant. It is easier to cross pollinate two flowers usually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 finally! ok so i used a very old fashioned way of sprouting the seeds. i kept them in the same packet you sent them to me in. theory being the seeds would use the energy source in the seeds - the cotyledons to sprout. today, after almost a month - success! almost 100% of the seeds have sprouted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N1CK Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 thats lots of seeds and your planning on doing what with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix44 Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 just growing them up to see if it mounts to any thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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