Acclimated wild plants!

[Sgooosh]

Hey guys! last year I collected some small pond plants for my outdoor pond, which through this winter, I have been acclimating to my indoor tank conditions.. As you can see, I have hornwort, ludwigia peploides, and a mystery Hydrocoytle, I would love ID's on it! it grows very tall

i've seen L. peploides converting to a submersed form before, it is an invasive weed here but looks quite nice. Hopefully it grows nice in this deep tank.

 

[GaryE]

When look at what plants were popular early in the hobby, they were usually local.

You have to know the legalities where you are, as aquatic plants moved from lake to lake can be trouble, and we can get caught up in the laws protecting them. But I have quite a few native plants going. It's hard to get them though the first 6 months, but if you do, you have something good.

I'd be curious about our environmental differences. I found that if I collected after midsummer, nothing could stop the plants from gearing down for winter, and they never came back. But if they were collected before the days began to shorten, they could be tricked into the sort of endless summer humans would like to live. I have a line of Valls here that's 10 years old and going strong.

Your tanks are beauties.

 

[emeraldking]

Always great to let a submerse grown plant become merse. And vice versa...

 

[Sgooosh]

When look at what plants were popular early in the hobby, they were usually local.

You have to know the legalities where you are, as aquatic plants moved from lake to lake can be trouble, and we can get caught up in the laws protecting them. But I have quite a few native plants going. It's hard to get them though the first 6 months, but if you do, you have something good.

I'd be curious about our environmental differences. I found that if I collected after midsummer, nothing could stop the plants from gearing down for winter, and they never came back. But if they were collected before the days began to shorten, they could be tricked into the sort of endless summer humans would like to live. I have a line of Valls here that's 10 years old and going strong.

Your tanks are beauties.

Totally, I'd never move anything from different bodies of water into another, I just had them in small tanks. They were all started from tiny parts floating in the water apart from the Ludwigia, which I know is a pretty noxious weed here.

That's really cool you have vals there, on the west coast there's really not much, so I'm trying to convert everything I have lol. I also have some Great Water Plantain seeds which look like tiny vallisneria underwater.

The waters in my rivers and my outdoor tanks are vastly different, but everything except for the hornwort and ludwigia liked winter better. my "pond" is more of a puddle as its like 20 gallons. Ranges from 100 in summer to 32 F in winter, which is freezing. It gets so hot here even my indoor tank plants don't do well in summer, only thing that handles the heat is Crypts.
I also collected these from the American River in California, which hopefully gives insight on which species the hydrocoytle is? i like it grown tall, quite different from the common type.

Thank you!

Always great to let a submerse grown plant become merse. And vice versa...

Yeah, next thing I will try to do is convert some Bacopa monneri and creeping jenny from the nursery haha, aquatic plants are getting so expensive here

 

[emeraldking]

haha, aquatic plants are getting so expensive here

In our country those prices of those plants are also going sky high...

 

[Sgooosh]

In our country those prices of those plants are also going sky high...

Yeah, I'm trying to make plant purchasing self sustainable so i can only buy new ones with the money i sold my own for.