Chain Sword With Daughter Plants

[mtv8dmarine]

At what point do you cut the daughters off and plant them individually? Below is a photo of mine.

 

[mtv8dmarine]

Just a side note, thank you mods for deleting my accidental repeat post. My connection apparently hung between clicking the add reply button.

 

[jameshughes1989]

hey, sorry I dont know the answer but what conditions are you keeping these in?

 

[dipsydoodlenoodle]

hey, sorry I dont know the answer but what conditions are you keeping these in?

I'm quite interested in this too; as I appear to have a "daughter" plant that come as a hitchiker. I decided to plant it and see how it went. It's growing roots . How do you care for it?

I would guess you cut them off when they have their own roots (my hitchiker didn't have roots but after about 2 weeks it has two tiny roots) .

 

[mtv8dmarine]

hey, sorry I dont know the answer but what conditions are you keeping these in?

I just have normal pea gravel substrate, lighting is about 1 watt/US Gal., and I dose API Leaf Zone during water changes (likely to stop once I've used it all up) and I use TOTAL root tabs from aquariumplants.com. I just started dosing Flourish Excel (3 doses so far). Not all my swords are doing spectacular since I planted them 3 weeks ago. One or two of the 10 are a little thin but most of them are sprouting new leaves. This one just is growing 2 daughters. I've read that sword varieties prefer to uptake nutrients from their roots as opposed to through their leaves when possible so perhaps it's the tabs that are helping them out the most.

 

[Teephphah]

Hmmm. Maybe it's time to go back to API Leaf Zone. I used it a while back and the one sword plant I had at the time was thriving. Since then, not so much . . . and that's especially true for the chain sword I added about a month ago. NOTHING happening there.

 

[mtv8dmarine]

This morning there was a 3rd daughter so after I got home from work and did my weekly cleaning I cut them off and planted them. I don't know how they'll all do since the further out on that branch that they were the smaller and younger they were too. I'll have to see.

 

[Theplayboy]

I left mine for quite a while, they were all 5-10cm (at a guess) when i cut them off and they are all doing great, growing lovely roots. When i cut them off i also left them floating in the tank for a while before planting so they could get some good root stucture first so i didnt have to keep replanting.

 

[mtv8dmarine]

I was looking through one of my books last night and it said to cut the daughter from the runner leaving some runner on both sides of the plant. It made no mention of a size of the daughters as to when to cut but I figure that's a judgment thing.