Help with my kleiner bar sword propagation?

[Byron]

@Byron update. I would like you to tell me when I should cut and separate the babies plants from the the Vine ie inflorescence.

I know you told me the plants needs to start developing roots so it can feed itself I don't see any Roots yet the distal baby has 5 sprouts the second one only has one sprout with three others really starting to develop and the approximal sprout really doesn't have anything yet. After I remove all three baby plants do I leave the inflorescence intact at the base of the plant or do I remove the entire thing? I'm not sure will new sprouts grow from it or another one will develop from the base of the plant later.

I do not see any roots from the adventitious plants (daughter plants) in these photos. There seems to be the beginnings of roots on one of the adventitious plants, but you need thick white roots that are at least 1.5 inches. Up until roots appear, the plantlets are being nourished by the parent so leave the inflorescence attached.

Once roots are present, you can remove the adventitious plants, all of them or just one, two, etc, up to you. You will find two plants at each node. I separate these, but some people leave them together for a bushier plant though if separated they will grow busy anyway. The inflorescence can be left or cut off from the base at the crown of the parent plant, up to you.

 

[Tony blazer]

Cool but new baby plants will not grow from the old inflorescence ? If no does the mother plant grow another one to sprout new baby plants ?

 

[Byron]

Cool but new baby plants will not grow from the old inflorescence ? If no does the mother plant grow another one to sprout new baby plants ?

Growth depends upon conditions. Echinodorus are heavy feeders, and substrate tabs really improve growth. Inflorescences are part of the plant's growth. I have had various swords that rarely produced an inflorescence, I have had plants that produced one or two twice each year, I have had plants that produced three, and one even five, at one time.

I am not a professional botanist, but one thought occurs to me, that this Kleiner Bar variety is not a natural species but a hybrid, and I've no idea if that makes any difference. Probably not.

 

[Tony blazer]

@Byron here's an update on the kleiner bar sword. Baby plants are still developing no major roots at this point. However the mother plant some leaves are becoming very transparent and disintegrating. I know the leaves will turn a brownish-red and almost transparent what I read however the leaves that are starting really breakdown should snip the entire stem from the base of the mother plant?

 

[Byron]

I would not cut the inflorescences off from the mother plant. You can remove dying leaves. Do you have substrate tabs, one next to the roots of the parent plant will help.

 

[Tony blazer]

@Byron the first baby plant is growing very nice with half a dozen pedals already roots are starting but very very small know we're next to the inch-and-a-half that you should just it. the second baby plant only has one shoot with a few more development and the third baby plant has no shoots at this point.

The mother plant bass pedals are starting to turn the reddish brown color.

this is definitely a very interesting plant I've never had one exactly like this before.

 

[Byron]

@Byron the first baby plant is growing very nice with half a dozen pedals already roots are starting but very very small know we're next to the inch-and-a-half that you should just it. the second baby plant only has one shoot with a few more development and the third baby plant has no shoots at this point.

The mother plant bass pedals are starting to turn the reddish brown color.

this is definitely a very interesting plant I've never had one exactly like this before.

Yes, you want much more root development. Interesting; maybe it is the fact that this is a cultivar and not a true species, that the roots develop so slowly. With my various Echinodorus true species, the roots pretty much kept pace with the leaves for the first couple weeks before the leaves grew more.