DogFish2.0

What has been you experience with crypt melt? How long has it taken for new growth? At what point to do you feel the plant will not survive?

Thank you,
Frank

ddavila06

my experience so far so good =)
my ideii i lost like 3 times, the last one i honestly forgot where i planted and gave it for dead until after rescaping/trimming one day and saw the darn plant alive again!!

i jsut lost my zukalli and xpurpurea that i traded a few weeks ago, both plants are sprouting new growth now, thankfully.

i also had one completely melt that i purchased as grown emersed..new leaves are coming out now also

i think as long as the roots look healthy they will come back =)

DogFish2.0

I'm trying to keep the faith got a few I really would like to see come back from the grave. They went zombie on me about 3 wks now.

bigstick120

I have had some take several months to come back. I just found one for about 4 months ago that I forgot about. I was a tiny plantlet under some Rosenvirg that I was pulling. It was pretty shaded but I though I lost it for sure.

gladiator008

is is true my crypts came back after a week no co2 from outside sources just the fish and liquid fert..

954baby

It's hard to say when it comes to melt. The more hardy species like C. wendtii come back really fast and the more delicate species can take a while. I have a few crypts that pretty much don't grow at all and they have been that way for years.

looking4roselines

I had a crypt that melted completely with a piece of rhizome remaining. The remaing rhizome was placed on a bed of moist sphagnum moss inside a sealed jar. About a week later, there was a little side shoot

looking4roselines

Here is the plant I was referring to. It melted from the crown:

wabisabi

Dog-I think as long as the rhizome is still viable (not melted) then there is always a chance it can come back.

Xue- is that melted crypt C. pallidinervia? Or perhaps C. cordata var zonata? Or C. cordata var diderici!?

looking4roselines

It was an unidentified crypt from lingga