Planting Dwarf Hair Grass

[mfarrar]

Im picking up some dwarf hair grass tonight and was wondering how I should plant it. Should I take it out of the basket and wool and spread it around or should I just plant it in the basket?

 

[nry]

Take it out of the basket, remove the wool carefully and split the plants into individual specimens - plant them a cm or so apart and over time they will spread themselves to fill the gaps.

 

[DevUK]

Too add to what NRY has said, you'll find it a lot easier to plant with a pair of tweezers

 

[mfarrar]

ok thanks, when you say individual specimens do you mean each individual strand? I was worried that if I take it out the basket then the grass might not stay in the substrate. Does it spread out quite quickly?

 

[DevUK]

It should send out runners and then sprout new plants off of those runners. When you un-pot it you'll probably see these runners. You can split the plant by pulling a plant off the runner. You may find they get a bit too small so I've bunched together some runners in the past and planted them as one small group (not too many at once though).

 

[mfarrar]

ok I will give it a go thanks. Would you say it was easy to grow?

 

[DevUK]

Relatively easy, but you may find its an algae magnet Just prune off any algae that grows on it

 

[Dave Spencer]

If I were you, I would cut off all the hairgrass down to substrate level to give the submersed growth a head start and avoid early algae issues.

Dave.