Got Some Free Plant's But What Are They ?

[Kizz]

picked these up for free from gumtree i think one's a javafern and the other is anubias but no idea if i'm right or not , could someone please confirm

Thanks
Kizz

 

[fluttermoth]

Yep, the top one is an anubias; I don't recognise the exact species (lovely plant though!) and the bottom one is Java fern.

 

[Kizz]

thanks for that , that's the largest of 3 seperate anubias , is there anyway in which to take cutting as such ? and do you know if they have to be attached staright away to bogwood ?

thanks again
kizz

 

[delta]

That's a cracking piece of Anubais you have there, what a great find. I think you can propagate it by cutting a piece off the rhizome using a very sharp knife so that you get a good clean cut.

 

[stu40]

I think you can propagate it by cutting a piece off the rhizome using a very sharp knife so that you get a good clean cut.

Try and get a bit with root & stem attached.
Nice find

 

[Kizz]

Thanks for that good to know i can take some cuttings from it , may sound like a total pleb here but what's a rhizome ? lol

 

[delta]

The rhizome is the bit that the leaves and roots come from. Please don't tell me you are planning on hacking up that stunning plant

 

[Kizz]

no no not until i least know what the hell i'm doing lol , do i need to bury the root's ? 2 of the peices are firmly attached to pieces of bogwood but there's 2 other smaller parts that aren't attached to anything have them floating in a bag with water as i don't want them beign sucked up by my powerhead lol

 

[stu40]

do i need to bury the root's ?

No,but they may eventually work their way down from the wood they're attached to.It's just the rhizome that you don't want buried.

 

[Man of fish]

no no not until i least know what the hell i'm doing lol , do i need to bury the root's ? 2 of the peices are firmly attached to pieces of bogwood but there's 2 other smaller parts that aren't attached to anything have them floating in a bag with water as i don't want them beign sucked up by my powerhead lol

Anubias, I believe, can't live being planted in the substrate as they need water and nutrients going over their rhizome at all times. Java ferns I know are like this and I'm pretty sure about the anubias.

 

[crazyforcordoras]

Wonderful plants, what huge anubias!

 

[tomtomtom1230]

That's a wonderful looking anubias right there! Contrary to popular belief, you CAN bury the rhizome but it will slow the plant's growth drastically for a while until it adjusts. It shouldn't melt if buried and I tried as an experiment; rather than growing along something like a creeper plant, it grows taller like a bush