Planting A Tank During Cycling

[dabhoy]

Hi all just a newbie with a question.
I am one week in to cycling a 110 litre tank but awaiting the post with my API test kit so no results yet.
I have the substrate in the tank and also a piece of bogwood and wondered whether I could also plant up the tank or will the plants affect the speed at which the bacteria builds up.
I should add that I received filter medium from a friend that fits my filter as he has had to donate his fish to others and was getting rid of the tank (unfortunately a little too big for the area I had available ) as he was moving away and did so yesterday.
My plans are to keep a couple of rams come corys and neon tetras as they all appear to get on according to my research.

Thanks in advance

 

[StandbySetting]

The best thing you can do is sit the cycle out and plant up when it is done, the reasoning behind this is because ammonia twinned with light will cause algae, and levels of ammonia are quite high during a fishless cycle and with plants requiring light, they'll be infested with algae before you know it.

 

[dabhoy]

The best thing you can do is sit the cycle out and plant up when it is done, the reasoning behind this is because ammonia twinned with light will cause algae, and levels of ammonia are quite high during a fishless cycle and with plants requiring light, they'll be infested with algae before you know it.

Thanks standby I will leave them out just now as I probably have enough work ahead of me already