Roots From Plants

[rowdyates]

Over the last week both my cabomba and some hydrilla verticiliata has started to throw out lots of roots from the stems in the water, not sure why this has just started and not sure if it's a good thing or a bad one. Is it something I just live with or are the plants trying to tell me something?

Cheers,

Keith

 

[olliecru]

Over the last week both my cabomba and some hydrilla verticiliata has started to throw out lots of roots from the stems in the water, not sure why this has just started and not sure if it's a good thing or a bad one. Is it something I just live with or are the plants trying to tell me something?

Cheers,

Keith

it could be that there is not enough nutrients for the plants in the substrate their for they compensate by producing aerial roots and extracting food directly from the water try a little soil at the bottom say half inch coverd by sand or fine gravel about 3 inches often A syptom of insufficiant substrate depth is aerial rooting. if u do have sufficent substrate depth try adding plant food stix or tabs next to the base of the plant. you can encourage more sustrate rooting by cutting the aerial roots back allmost completly after a few cuts the roots in the sustrate will have grown to compensate for the loss. if you feed at the base and cut aerial roots they will soon be a thing of the past....hope this helps friend. ollie

 

[rowdyates]

I'll try trimming them back abit and fertilising a bit more and see what happens.

Thanks,

Keith

 

[illusion54]

My wisteria does the same thing, it should be a natural thing cause i have flourite, root tabs, and liquid fertilizer.