My first spathe: Cryptocoryne Wendtii Brown - Cryptocorynes

ferchu22 · 08-25-2009, 06:36 PM

Hi People: here is my first spathe, cryptocoryne Wendtii Brown

Best wishes

Fernando

supasi · 08-26-2009, 03:04 AM

Good one

Nice healthy looking plant you have there.

jamesstill84 · 08-26-2009, 12:19 PM

That's a nice specimen. Do you know if full submerged crypts produce the flower like that?

ferchu22 · 08-26-2009, 06:23 PM

I suppose that aponegotonifolia, usteriana, affinnis and some other crypt can send the spathe outside the water, but I don't know if it's common to see anothers cryptocorynes flowering underwater.

Regards

jfrank85 · 09-08-2009, 08:58 AM

I had a crypt wendtii red throw up a spathe underwater but it never opened and ended up dying. the spathe not the plant.

jamesstill84 · 09-08-2009, 09:51 AM

It's unfortunate that they don't flower fully submerged.

Makes me sad.

ombcat · 09-08-2009, 02:29 PM

Is this as far as this type of crypt spathe will open?
wilma

ferchu22 · 09-09-2009, 12:12 PM

Yes, I suppose, at least for my plant

. Now I have another spathe from the same plant, and it has the same opened shape.

Philosophos · 09-09-2009, 12:24 PM

If you can get a few going, you could always try cross-pollination to push out your own breed. I know crypts are a favorite for doing this with, and it's been going on quite a while now.

C. wendtii "ferchu22" anyone?

-Philosophos