Great advise Sir. 👍👍👍 Can you share if co2 is needed for conversion process? Also do you recommend adding fishes or wait till the plant are grown in submerged before doing so.
CO2 is not necessary but would definitely help for harder to grow plants. Most of the plants I sell are very easy to grow and CO2 may be more work than its worth (in my opinion anyway). I see no issue with adding fish when you are adding the plants provided your aquarium is already cycled. You might be able to even get away with adding a small amount of fish to an uncycled tank as long as the plants you are adding are fast growers so they can hit the ground running to cycle nutrients. I would definitely monitor your water parameters closely for awhile though and have a backup plan if parameters fall out of whack 👍
Dude you are the best! I been struggling with propagation of aquarium plants for a couple years now. I'm going through all your videos, you make it simple! I'm going on an adventure and start experimenting your techniques ❤❤👍
Great question. I’ve been meaning to film that segment. I’ll try to get that one up within a week or two. But in short here’s what you’ll do for part three. After pollination wait for the flower to develop the seeds. This can take a long time but typically ~60 days or so. You’ll know if the pollination is successful because the spathe will wrap around the spadex and the flower won’t rot away. Around 60 days or so you’ll see the spathe start to slowly dissolve away revealing seeds. What I typically do is just leave them there and wait until you see some of the seeds germinate. Then remove the flower and in some water take the flower apart to collect the seeds. I then place them on some moist soil in a high humidity container with some gentle light to let them develop into little baby plants. Once’s they have a few leaves you can transplant to a more formal grow setup. That’s how I have done it in the past. Takes forever for the plantlets to grow big though so I don’t do this regularly. I typically propagate through vegetative cuttings. 👍
@@bunnyridge_6120 please share your experiences. I just started a nano shrimp tank with carpet plants from seed. Dry start method. I'm ready to submerge hope it goes well. Any advice ?
idk why i cant convert emersed hygrophila compacta and hygrophila pinnatifida to subermsed tried twice they both melt and never bounce back also h.compacta smell really bad 😞
Try doing a dry start, which is essentially his setup (very high humidity, good lighting, nutrient rich substrate) where you slowly introduce water. So get your substrate and hardscape all set up, get the emmersed plants in the soil, and get the humidity really high (usually using Saran Wrap over top of the aquarium to allow light but not allowing moisture to escape. Find the depth that they’ll be fully submerged at. Over the course of a month slowly fill up the aquarium until the point you found earlier is reached and they’re submerged. Then just add the rest of the water. Other things to try are different (better) soil, root tabs, stronger light that you’re sure is full spectrum, or if it’s a very large aquarium and you don’t have stocking- adding a bit of CO2 into the water while it’s converting can help (although that’s expensive as hell). If I were you I’d just try to find a place where I could purchase already submerged hygro.
The best way to transition any stem plant is to dump whole lots of CO2 into the water at least for the first two weeks, while maintaining the ammonia level *as low as possible* Also, try to reduce the water flow. Fast flowing water is the enemy of all newly planted stem plants
Thats has proven to be a fact IMHO. The thing about taking CO2 from the air is really tricky to believe. My guess is that anubias takes a lot more nutrients through the leaves which is easier for it to take them from the water column where as emersed only its roots will be in water
Great advise Sir. 👍👍👍
Can you share if co2 is needed for conversion process? Also do you recommend adding fishes or wait till the plant are grown in submerged before doing so.
CO2 is not necessary but would definitely help for harder to grow plants. Most of the plants I sell are very easy to grow and CO2 may be more work than its worth (in my opinion anyway). I see no issue with adding fish when you are adding the plants provided your aquarium is already cycled. You might be able to even get away with adding a small amount of fish to an uncycled tank as long as the plants you are adding are fast growers so they can hit the ground running to cycle nutrients. I would definitely monitor your water parameters closely for awhile though and have a backup plan if parameters fall out of whack 👍
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Dude you are the best! I been struggling with propagation of aquarium plants for a couple years now. I'm going through all your videos, you make it simple! I'm going on an adventure and start experimenting your techniques ❤❤👍
Is basically the same as dry start? Do u recommend having a air hoes going into fully inclosed aquarium while doing a dry start?
My pearl weed is ofently went out of the substrate while transition
like how many days you will be seeing a first sign of improvement or process?
Does it work for buciphalandra?
Great video Will! Wondering when theirs gonna be a part 3 to growing Anubis from seed?
Great question. I’ve been meaning to film that segment. I’ll try to get that one up within a week or two. But in short here’s what you’ll do for part three. After pollination wait for the flower to develop the seeds. This can take a long time but typically ~60 days or so. You’ll know if the pollination is successful because the spathe will wrap around the spadex and the flower won’t rot away. Around 60 days or so you’ll see the spathe start to slowly dissolve away revealing seeds. What I typically do is just leave them there and wait until you see some of the seeds germinate. Then remove the flower and in some water take the flower apart to collect the seeds. I then place them on some moist soil in a high humidity container with some gentle light to let them develop into little baby plants. Once’s they have a few leaves you can transplant to a more formal grow setup. That’s how I have done it in the past. Takes forever for the plantlets to grow big though so I don’t do this regularly. I typically propagate through vegetative cuttings. 👍
@@AquariumPlantLab great! I have a lot of time on my hands, and why not😂 so I’m planning on starting growing from seed!
@@bunnyridge_6120 please share your experiences. I just started a nano shrimp tank with carpet plants from seed. Dry start method. I'm ready to submerge hope it goes well. Any advice ?
Well i was overthinking it
Thank you
idk why i cant convert emersed hygrophila compacta and hygrophila pinnatifida to subermsed tried twice they both melt and never bounce back also h.compacta smell really bad 😞
Try doing a dry start, which is essentially his setup (very high humidity, good lighting, nutrient rich substrate) where you slowly introduce water.
So get your substrate and hardscape all set up, get the emmersed plants in the soil, and get the humidity really high (usually using Saran Wrap over top of the aquarium to allow light but not allowing moisture to escape. Find the depth that they’ll be fully submerged at. Over the course of a month slowly fill up the aquarium until the point you found earlier is reached and they’re submerged. Then just add the rest of the water.
Other things to try are different (better) soil, root tabs, stronger light that you’re sure is full spectrum, or if it’s a very large aquarium and you don’t have stocking- adding a bit of CO2 into the water while it’s converting can help (although that’s expensive as hell).
If I were you I’d just try to find a place where I could purchase already submerged hygro.
The best way to transition any stem plant is to dump whole lots of CO2 into the water at least for the first two weeks, while maintaining the ammonia level *as low as possible*
Also, try to reduce the water flow. Fast flowing water is the enemy of all newly planted stem plants
How long is the Light day?
8 hours on 8 hours off, that seems to be a good start for timers, but feel free to change it.
why not submerged?
companies have found out that they can get big/faster growing plants if grown out of the water. Well that's how i was told
my anubias actually are growing faster underwater with CO2 than they were emersed
Difference in lighting?
@@peadookie could be, not sure
Thats has proven to be a fact IMHO. The thing about taking CO2 from the air is really tricky to believe.
My guess is that anubias takes a lot more nutrients through the leaves which is easier for it to take them from the water column where as emersed only its roots will be in water