Pruning

[Qays]

How do you prune these plants:

Cabomba
Hygrohpilia Polysperma
Vallisneria

Help is appriciated! Thanks!

 

[MrWaxhead]

The only one of those 3 I have have ever had was cabomba, all I did with it was top it and put the head back in the substrate and let it grow back up, sometimes I would cut off just one node after it split and replant it tell the other got taller too. But I found in my tank anyway, if i left the bottom planted to long it eventually got stringy and broke up. I only used it to establish my planted tank, as it took a ton of work as it grows extremely fast.

 

[Qays]

Thanks!

nobody knows how to prune Hygrophila poly?

 

[qwikimpss]

With H. Polysperma they best way to prune it is to pull it out of the substrate a chop off the bottom few inches. This is the accepted way to prune most stem plants.

And they way I have trimmed my Vallis was to just grab it and chop off the desired ammount with scissors. I try to cut at an angle because, well...I dunno why. The ends may brown up a little but if your vallis grows like vallis usually does it's nothing to really worry about.

 

[Qays]

oh no! I cut mine from the top today!

Is this a bad thing?

 

[Themuleous]

No, jsut plant what you cut off you'll probably find it gorw, then you have twice the amount!

 

[Qays]

Wow! Didnt know that... Thew it away.

I'll do that next time!

Thanks Sam and gwipimkiss