Roots Coming Out Everywhere On The Stem

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hwoarangtag

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• Nov 28, 2007

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Hi,
I bought some plant from my LFS in which i am still doubting about its name. After about 2 weeks, i see roots growing everwhere on the stem. Is this a normal behavior and that i should cut them ?

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• Nov 28, 2007

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I've had this happen too. Could it be some kind of trace deficiency or lack of Co2?

 

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Well, the substrate I have is not the best (huge gravel). I am about to use ECO-complete and replant everything. As far as Light and Co2 i believe they are OK.

 

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I think that is normal with stem plants, it happens to mine too, especially the hygrophilia. These plants either need pruning to bush out, or do as suggested with stem plants in the pruning sticky. It suggest you can remove the plant, cut to size, discard the bottom half which by now will have more roots that you wanted, and re-plant the top half of the plant with some of the new roots at the bottom.

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• Nov 28, 2007

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I think its pretty normal too. Usually you see this in plants with fast growth and the pruning time allows the removal of the lower stem that has too many roots on it.

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Mine used to do that madly, but after they settled in they've eased up on it. My moneywort(?) still does but it looks grafceful on them

 

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Yep its 100% normal. Its just the plants way of staying ahead of the game. If the plant gets snapped in half the bit that comes off will all ready have root when it lands. Plant also anchor themselves with these roots and they'll provide ready access to nutrients in the water column. If they get really annoying I always found you could cut/snap them off and it didnt seem to affect the plant.

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