Yoong

recently received elliptica from a friend but unfortunately most of the plant melt during transportation. I have kept a few leaves under different conditions and today I notice new shoots..

Unable to post photo here but please check the following link.

http://yoongbk.blogspot.com/2007/12/...that-grow.html


Yoong

rs79

What happens if you just float frshly cut leaves? Will they develop plantlets like say, water sprite?
Nice job documenting your efforts btw. It's good to see.

Has anybody ever tried rooting hormone on crypt leaves? I wonder if with a bit if chemical stimulation would any crypt leaf do this?

AaronT

That's a great picture Yoong. Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm hoping to be successful at this one day soon.

Ghazanfar Ghori

Im hoping Aaron is successful too - I dont have that one yet.

newellcr

Yoong,

Neat picture! I repotted an elliptica plant almost a year ago. The leaves were very brittle and I broke off a bunch of leaves in the process. I potted most of these emerse in collected soil and the pot quickly became covered in algae. I figured they were lost but left them alone. Last August, I noticed growth under the algae and pulled it off. Pictures below. The plant is labeled as PLD which was a blunder made in haste. I did have the '10 leaves' on the marker stick, so I know that it is elliptica.

I used these pictures in my Crypt program which I've given a couple of times. These slides are under mistakes and successes. All is not lost when you have problems. It's my guess that the algae helped these leaves to root as previous attempts to root elliptica leaves had failed.

Thanks for posting the picture.

Kind Regards,

Chris

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Yoong

I put another leaf sumerged in water and it develop plantlet too. At the same place-the end of the stem.

Yoong

[quote=newellcr;347490]Yoong,

Neat picture! I repotted an elliptica plant almost a year ago. The leaves were very brittle and I broke off a bunch of leaves in the process. I potted most of these emerse in collected soil and the pot quickly became covered in algae. I figured they were lost but left them alone. Last August, I noticed growth under the algae and pulled it off. Pictures below. The plant is labeled as PLD which was a blunder made in haste. I did have the '10 leaves' on the marker stick, so I know that it is elliptica.

I used these pictures in my Crypt program which I've given a couple of times. These slides are under mistakes and successes. All is not lost when you have problems. It's my guess that the algae helped these leaves to root as previous attempts to root elliptica leaves had failed.

Thanks for posting the picture.

Kind Regards,


Chris,
Nice pictures you have there too. It is interesting how the algea cover the leaves of your crypt. I thinK that high moisture and stable environment is the key. I put a few leafs in different condition. the only two that grew plantlets are both in transparent bottle with either crypt minima or affinis in it. Because these bottles are closed, the environement within hardly change. I rarely have to add water and check them only once in a while. I think your algea covered the leave and provide an enclosed and stable environment similar to what I have. Just my thought.

ts168

Oh my Goodness Chris, that alot of algae. But it great they grow back.

Well done yoong.

Yoong

Thanks. I am sure you will success. You guys are the experts here, I am the beginner.

jazzlvr123

its amazing all that crypt can develop over that mess of algae that was covering it lol