how to get an Amazon Sword to produce runners

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Hello. I have had an Amazon Sword plant for a little over a year now. It is in my 29 gallon planted in sand with a bit of gravel. I use Seachem root tabs as fertelizer. I have a Nicrew Classic LED G2 Aquarium Light. Is there a way for me to get this plant to send out runners? Thanks!
 

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Amazon sword plants usually send up a flower spike when mature (about 1 year old) and after a cooling off period. They normally flower in spring and summer after a colder winter. The same thing happens in aquariums but less often. If you let the aquarium temperature drop to 20-22C for a few months over winter, that can encourage them to send up a flower stalk when the water temp increases to 26C.

Make sure it has lots of light and fertiliser and hope for the best. However, many sword plants never send out a flower stalk when kept underwater.

If you really want to propagate the plant, grow it in a pot outdoors and in spring and early summer it will send up a flower spike about 4-6 feet long and that will have white flowers along it. These get pollinated by bees and produce seeds that can be plants in damp gravel and new plants grown up.
 

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