954baby

oops double post

954baby

^ I think there is some truth to this. When I had a lot of spaeths going there were an abundance of small flies in the humidity domes. I just looked up some places online to get some fruit fly cultures. I sent out a few emails and hopefully I can try this theory out. I'll keep you guys posted if I do go through with this.

954baby

Pretty sure this is C. wendtii 'green gecko' I've checked a few sources and it's pretty close looking, also the size of the spaeth is relative, most wendtii species I have grow larger spaeth's



C. undulata is blooming frequently right now


C. willisi x lucens, I have a few varieties of the same plant, some are taller with larger spaeth's and some are smaller with the same identical spaeth just smaller in size



C. moehlmannii, I thought this was long gone in my collection. It looks almost identical to C. pontederiifolia but now that it flowered I can see the subtle differences between the 2 species. C. moehlmannii grows taller and has a more yellowish green shade to it.




I got another spaeth from that unknown wendtii plant, It hasn't flowered in over 2 years but now has sent up 2 in the last 2 weeks and it has another immature spaeth on it's way. The spaeth has such a deep red color, easily one of the nicest of all of my wendtii species.


This is an unidentified species of C. wendtii 'red' or some variety of wendtii that has reddish coloring but remains fairly green. No matter how many times it sends up a flower it will never open fully, always looks like this.


If I hold it open it looks like this



More to come in the upcoming weeks, I have a few unknown species that are flowering soon.

954baby

Unknown C. wendtii species






C. wendtii 'green gecko'



C. undulata 'Florida Aquatic species'


C. wendtii




A melted spaeth, thought it looked cool


C. pontenderiifolia is going to flower this year!!!


A pot of C. albida with HC


Hydrocootle is flowering in my swamp/wetland tub



3 C. becketti spaeth's ready to bloom, should be a cool pic if they all go at once


I found some frog eggs in the pot, there is a family of frogs living inside the tank



Here is a pic of the tank



Some species of liverwort I found growing in a pot, been finding some weird stuff in my setups lately. No idea how it all gets in there.

WeedCali

Lookin good! I bought some of the unknown species of crypt from you a long time ago and the patch I have growing in my paludarium is sending out its first spathe.

954baby

^Awesome glad to hear!!! Post some pics of your tank or link me to it if you already have a thread.

Klaus07

here is a Cryptocoryne undulata I got from you last November blooming in my emersed setup. Do you know which of your two types it is? It is the second of the crypts I got from you to bloom.

954baby

That's the species that I got from a fish store and it's the one that Florida Aquatic sells. In the future if you have some room I have another species of undulata that you can try out. It's a lot harder to grow but when it blooms it's beautiful. The one thing I like about the Florida Aquatic species is that it multiplies really fast. The other species I have takes forever to send runners. They don't grow very tall and the leaves are very quick to melt. It's a very needy species where as this one is very hearty and grows nice and tall. Congrats on the spaeth, hope you have a good season.

WeedCali

Got a pic of that C. Unknown spathe forming HERE

The spathe I originally told you about never grew and is sitting in one of the oldest leaves. I think you can see it in the background of the pic too.