Congratulations Xema. The flower really looks nice. I guess unpredictability is the nature of the beast with zonata. The plant I brought back from ECS last year just sulked until about 2 months ago. Now it's growing like gangbusters.
Cryptocoryne cordata var. zonata Idei A-03 in Aquasoil-Flourite mix. 2 new leaves in 3 weeks.
Cryptocoryne cordata var. zonata Idei A-03 in take away container in pure Beech tree leaf mould-distilled water slurry. This plant has 6 new plantlets shooting up in the last 2 months.
Actually, it's a Brother P-touch PT-1280 label maker and a 4 inch plant label. Type 'em up, cut, peel and stick.
Marlene got it and a FirstRays gift certificate for me for Christmas last year. Guess she figured if I'm willing to spend a couple of G's to go to Europe for plants I must be serious about this and I need a label maker and some quality fertilizer. :mrgreen: She's so good to me!! :mrgreen:
By the way, I forgot explain this plant is coming to my mother plant, I separated few plantlets I think a year ago. Mother plant is growing in a kind of fagus soil, and this one is growing on Azoo Grower bed, a sort of ADA like soil.
My experience tell me soil are needing few month to start to be usable by the plants... except ADA like soils. I use to store my bleech leaves in a sealed bag with rain water -or RO water-. Few month after storing you can got a paste of fagus leaves debris.
Ha! I finally get to post a reasonable picture of some success with a tougher Crypt. and all I hear is "Great label!" Man, you guys are tough!!! I tell ya, I don't get any respect!
Congrats to flower this plant - that's one of my favorite crypts! Even without an inflorescence, the leaves are beautiful (emersed as well as submersed). IMHO it's also easier to culture than most other zonata strains...
Really I am not sure about what could be doing for removing it... I add the same fungicide as every time, but it seemed not working. I repotted some plant with the most large infestation, after a month of that, white fungus start to be gone.
C. cordata zonatus has been folded into C. cordata grabowski which is endemic to Borneo.
Now, there's been a plant circulating in Japan as "Crypt. cf. cordata "West of Dayu" with code A-03 (I've also seen A-03C).
Might this be the same plant as that? Looks pretty similar, flowers in this species can be anything from white to yellow to yellow and purple.
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