glosso growing up

[kenneth_kpe]

i have finally planted glosso in my 2.3 gallon nano after redoing it ( a painstaking 3 hours or preparation and planting for the glosso alone!!!, it almost killed my back).....

anyway its been almost a week now and ive been noticing that the glosso tends to grow upward.. i know that with low light it will do this but with 23 watts of normal daylight CF (6,500k) over a 2.3 gallon tank !?!?!?

im injecting c02 and its doing well imo, the glosso is growing along with the hemianthus and they even pearl every now and then but the glosso still keeps growing upwards..... anybody experience the same problem ? or is it natural for the glosso to initially grow upwards and then adjust ?

 

[paulioo]

I'm currently growing Glosso in my 30G tank with 2.6WPG. My Glosso is carpeting quite nicely.

My theory is that it depends how it was planted. The reason i'm saying this is because the Glosso I planted at the start I made sure to have only two leaves sticking out from the sand. This Glosso is the glosso thats carpeting.

On the other hand, with the glosso that i planted towards the end, I became tired and didnt plant it properly and it began growing upwards.

I've also read theories that suggest that its not the amount of light that causes glosso to carpet but rather the right amount of nutrients in the substrate, not sure how accurate this is though.

Then there's the fact that your tank is 2.3G which means the whole WPG rule gets thrown completely out the window.

The main thing i'd check would be..

Do you have a nutrient rich substrate and did you plant it corretly i.e having only two leaves sticking out from the substrate.

Here's my glosso when i first planted it..

here it is now after about 2/3 weeks and a 4 day blackout ...

Dont give up on it.

paul.

 

[pseud]

Your glosso is really coming along Paul. Looks good mate

 

[kenneth_kpe]

hmmm the substrate is size 3 gravel roughly the size of a O here with floredepot underneath, the glosso is rooting nicely with that substrate mix... hmm it might be the planting method i used.... with the other plantlets i sorta got sloppy too hehehe

heres a pic if you guys could make anything out of it, couldn't find a digicam here now...

 

[paulioo]

You can actually train Glosso to carpet if it doesn't do it automatically.

All you do is push the Glosso thats shooting upwards into the substrate until its almost completely covered.
Keep doing this until it starts to spread horizontally.

paul.

 

[kenneth_kpe]

il give that method a go! il push em down every week until they decide to stay down good thing its a small tank

 

[houndour]

I also have glosso in my tanks and I find that some is growing horizontal and some upwards. I shall also keep pushing mine into the sand thanks for the tip.