How To Get Rid Of Unwanted Plants

[GAB99]

i have this hornwart plant that is really messy and found out that its a floating plant and not a rooting plant.

how can i get rid of it? (live in CA)

 

[afishdude]

Find someone with a pond and feed it to their goldfish/koi.

Do NOT dump it in the wild.

 

[GAB99]

can i give it to a petstore (trade?)

 

[afishdude]

If they will take it.

If not just dump it in the garbage.

It is a rooting plant by the way. If you plant the cut end in the substrate it will root.

 

[fatheadminnow]

Burn it.

-FHM

 

[three-fingers]

I've never got it to root.

You can anchor it in the substrate, but it wont grow true roots.

 

[afishdude]

Mine did. I had them rooting all the time. I had to use ferts and co2 for them to root but they did. They were real stringy white roots. I had them in a 20g planted with sand substrate.

 

[three-fingers]

If yours did that...it wasn't hornwort . Must have been something else, where did you get it from?

 

[afishdude]

It was hornwort. I had hornwort, cabomba, and anacharis.

I bought it from here. [URL="https/bonniesplants.3dcartstores.com/Horn...ount_p_269.html"]https/bonniesplants.3dcartstores.com/Horn...ount_p_269.html[/URL]

 

[three-fingers]

The plants in the pics look like hornwort, but it's hard to tell for sure since they are so small.

Any pics of your plants? Either you had a very similar species, or you experienced something very rare/unprecedented.

Hornwort doesnt grow roots, I've had it with strange longer leaves at the bottom that were a light yellow/brown colour under the substrate...but they were a similar shape to the leaves and were in the same place. I grew it in low light and low tech tanks, high light high tech tanks and my outdoor pond.

Which is in line with what I've read in books/on the net.

Did a search for "hornwort roots" and all he results say the same thing.

Did a bit deeper digging and the only reference that sounds similar to what you have experienced is this: http/www.thekrib.com/Plants/Plants/Ceratophylum.html .

Which isnt very reliable (only one old reference on a mailing list), but is something. If you have any pics I'd be very interested to see them.

 

[afishdude]

I fed it all to my goldfish last fall when I got rid of my planted tank. I can tell you I had 1.5wpg, used nutrafin plant-gro and a DIY co2 that was ridiculously over powered. All of my plants grew 1" a day or more. I would just chop off the top and replant it. They looked ugly, but the ones that were in there for weeks at a time grew hair like roots. They were not strong at all, not enough to actually root the plant but they were 100% roots. I never got the anacharis to root, but the cabomba and the hornwort rooted.

I should add that I had a ph of 8.2 and it was planted in fine limestone sand.

 

[matalan]

why not just give it to someone on this site?

 

[three-fingers]

I fed it all to my goldfish last fall when I got rid of my planted tank. I can tell you I had 1.5wpg, used nutrafin plant-gro and a DIY co2 that was ridiculously over powered. All of my plants grew 1" a day or more. I would just chop off the top and replant it. They looked ugly, but the ones that were in there for weeks at a time grew hair like roots. They were not strong at all, not enough to actually root the plant but they were 100% roots. I never got the anacharis to root, but the cabomba and the hornwort rooted.

I should add that I had a ph of 8.2 and it was planted in fine limestone sand.

If it was hornwort, they weren't true roots you saw. Hornwort just cant grow true roots, it's part of what makes it so different as a species.

It's possible I guess what you were some sort of weird rhizoids (not true roots but act as such), but it's a shame you took no pictures because if hornwort can do this it only happens extremely rarely and there's no pictures and I only found that one other old account of it on the net.

So I'm still dubious as to if your plant was hornwort (hope you can see why) but its not because I don't believe what your saying.