Larger days: Spring or Phosphate II... - Page 3 - Cryptocorynes

Ghazanfar Ghori · 02-05-2008, 05:02 PM

Why did you break it down? Is that indoors or outside?

Xema · 02-17-2008, 08:36 AM

Updating,

The kota Tinggi one spathe will be opened in the following days, and C. usteriana is sending 2 simultaneous spathes. I will keep you informed.

Ghazanfar Ghori · 02-17-2008, 08:45 AM

I cannot get my usterenia to flower. It keeps getting bigger and bigger. Can't trigger
it to flower for me. And here you are posting about two spikes!

Xema · 03-03-2008, 06:54 AM

Well, the past February 19th the kota tinggi one opened its spathe. Really was closed, but I touched softly with my fingers and It opened itself in the following 5 minutes. Due to this artificial opening you can see the pictures a not full opened limb.

Usteriana is opened too, I will try to post the pictures.

Xema · 03-03-2008, 04:14 PM

Pictures about my massive usteriana´s blooming.

Simultaneous spikes.

Another usteriana specimens are flowering too.

jazzlvr123 · 03-03-2008, 09:56 PM

beautiful crypts

rs79 · 03-04-2008, 05:02 AM

Quote:

Hello Ghanzanfar,

Quote:I don't know about length of day - near the equator, that should roughly remain the same right?

I covered this here:
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...6&postcount=10
(I need to recalculate my figures quoted from memory - maybe it was 11:55 - 12:05 instead; however, that also would suffice to be detectable by plants...)

I don't think the period of daylight matters, that is I don't think you'll find any difference i plants that get 8. 10 or 12 hours of light a day.

The length of light or dark doesn't matter.

What triggers the plants is the days getting shorter.

So, you could start from 16, 14, 12, 10 or 8 hours of light a say and by making each day a bit shorter you should be able to force flowering.

If you've been feeding a high phosphate food for 1-3 months before thast it would help as plants need extra phosphate when they're flowering.

I havn't yet seen a crypt that flowered in the spring, only in the fall.

Course, I haven't seen that many flowers as I almost always grow them submersed.

DelawareJim · 03-05-2008, 09:38 AM

Very nice Xema! Great job with the usteriana. Mine's like Ghazanfar described, bigger and bigger but no flower.

The older pictures you posted, are they of your old styrofoam setup? Did you have that inside or outside?

Cheers.
Jim

Xema · 03-07-2008, 04:43 AM

Thanks for the comments!!

Jim I have not anymore styro-foam set up. All my stuff is growing y my indoor set up.

erijnal · 03-09-2008, 12:58 AM

Cryptocoryne spathes respond to touch??