954baby

Update on the seeds: It's been almost 30 days and the seeds germinated quick. I think I got exactly 10 seeds from the C. wendtii plant. I ended up going with the method of placing the seeds directly on top of ADA aquasoil Amazonia II, I couldn't find much information on how to proceed but I did find a thread on illumbomb's blog and it pretty much showed to just place them ontop of the substrate. I planted one and I'm not exactly sure if it did in fact germinate but every seed that I put ontop of the aquasoil did germinate. I have a total of 9 plants out of 10 seeds so 90% success rate, not so bad.

1 Week after "planting" 11/14/11


2 weeks in, 11/22/11


3 weeks in, 11/29/11



While I was trimming yesterday I stumbled upon another fruit, this one is from a C. wendtii 'tropica'

Luckily I found it in close proximity to it opening up. This one yielded around the same amount of seeds, roughly 10 I forgot to count. I used the exact same method, placed them ontop of ADA Aquasoil Amazonia II. I "planted" them yesterday around 2:00 PM and when I checked them this morning some had already started to send out a green shoot.

A pic of the fruit


1 Day in, 11/29/11



The C. becketti fruit is still going strong. It hasn't seemed to change much in the past month. I check it every day eagerly awaiting the day it's open. The mother plant it is growing from is getting so big. I've heard the fruiting process is so demanding on the mother plant that it can stunt it's growth but not in this case. I made sure to fertilize it weekly and give it a good dose.

11/29/11




Oh, and I found another fruit in the same pot as the first C. wendtii fruit. It's almost mature. I was so excited to have just 1 fruit but now I've found 4!! Such a cool feeling. I never thought I'd get any of my plants to fruit. I guess that's the advantage of growing outdoors. I can honestly say the plan to keep the vents open and attract bugs did in fact work. I can't wait for this upcoming season.

11/22/11


11/29/11

954baby

Here are some other random pics: This stuff grows like wild fire! I never introduced it but somehow it is in everyone of my setups.



Some nice coloring on a C. wendtii 'green'


Anubias 'Gasser' leaves can get HUUUUGE!


Nice pot of C. wendtii with HC


The pot to the right has been planted for 1 week and the one to the left was freshly planted today. I'll post a pic the day after Christmas and see where they are at. Usually it takes 1 month to fill up the pot.

Some hydrocootle


My dog passed out in the grass

travisk

Love the c. albida, very nice setup, did something very similar to that over this past summer. Wish I would have took pictures. Even had the same pest problem. What did you do to get rid of them? They really tore up my c. lutea.

954baby

Update on my seeds, the C. becketti finally opened up right around christmas.



and the C. becketti plantlets


One of the pots of seeds started out great and then all of the sudden they kinda went downhill, so out of 10+ I am left with like 3 plantlets.

Anyways I spent the past month repotting a ton of plants with Amazonia new aquasoil. A lot of the plants are really doing well in the new substrate. I'll post some pics in the upcoming weeks. I think I'm going to get a lot of spaeths this upcoming season.

My first spaeth of the season, C. albida


More to come next week

954baby

Been trying to get some pics up, been really busy lately. I'm starting to get some early season spaeth's already.

C. albida


C. becketti


I've been doing a ton of repotting, I bought 4 9L bags of Amazonia New and I have used 3 so far. I decided rather then split up some of my overgrown pots and dismantle the root systems I just put the overgrown pot into a much bigger pot. I trimmed the roots a little and then just put the whole plant into the middle of a big pot. Home Depot has the big clay pots for a few $ each. Here is a pot of C. wendtii 'green'



I got a few new domes and was finally able to dedicate one just to my anubias, well a small portion of my anubias, lol.


HC is really growing strong right now, these pots take me about a month to grow




Had a lot of trouble getting this C. ideii to grow hopefully the oak leaves around the base will help


My pot of Hydrocootle is really taking off


emersed java fern


I purchased 2 Anubias 'Gasser' plants from the forum about 2-3 years ago and I still have the mother plants. I've probably clipped 25 plants from them and over the years it's stunted the growth pretty good but I just checked and all that clipping has really put this plant into over drive. I counted 18 new sprouts off of just the 1 rhizome. I'm used to getting a few every 6 months but this time the plant means business. So hopefully in the next few months I'll have a good amount of A. 'Gasser' to share with everyone.


C. nevelli or at least I think. Really hoping to get a spaeth this year.

chad320

They all look really nice. I want to ask you about your ideii. I planted mine in a peat and soil mix and it did great. For some unknown reason I moved it into AS Malaya and its been doing terrible. Is yours in regular AS? How long has it been there? Ever tried any other substrate? I am thinking of doing an AS and peat mix but now im not so sure seeing yours in AS not doing so great either.

954baby

Yea it was recently moved to amazonia new, from amazonia 2, its so so i need to put it into something better. I think its a blackwater crypt I don't know how to really care for them yet.

chad320

The blackwaters have done good for me in 1/3 peat, 1/3 soil, 1/3 AS. Thanks for your confirmation, im going to move mine tonight back into this mix.

954baby

Yea I really need to get a blackwater setup going.

snook123

Are you buying your plants local? I'm up in palm beach county and can not find any good stores.