What Is This?

[GAB99]

i do not know what plant this is and now this thing is coming out of it.

as always help is appreciated

 

[snowflake311]

It's a flower shoot. Once it gets to the surface you should see a small flower. The plant if some kind of sward I think.

 

[iffles]

as Truck said ^ it looks like an amazon sword of some kind, dont know what the shoot is, but it being a flower shoot is probably right ^

 

[Truck]

thats snowflake lol

I agree, it is a plant from the echindorus genus, I think it may be blerheri or aquatica

 

[lilacamy931]

Hello I had this on mine and this is what the plant looks like now:

 

[GAB99]

Hello I had this on mine and this is what the plant looks like now:

when the plant gets about that big can i snip it and replant it in the gravel?


and yes it was an amazon sword, i forgot the nam but it suddenly clicked again

 

[GAB99]

also is the sword gonna keep doing this? i dont mind i just want to be prepared, if by chance i get annoyed with the plant, is there a way to make it stop growing new plants?

 

[GAB99]

hello?

 

[dave_oddballs]

i don't think it is a flower shoot but just a runner.
the runners usually are buried but if the runner had started growing before it was put in your tank it would have been uprooted and left mid-water.

 

[GAB99]

i have had the plant for a month now so unless they grow slow then speed up quickly it would not have been in he ground

 

[OldMan47]

At only a month, you probably have indeed had a small shoot that started growing more recently. Either the flower stalk of the side shoots are possible. I never seem to get a plant in good enough condition for that kind of thing to start quickly. That means several months after I have a plant, a shoot will start. More often than not it is just an offset like the later pictures show but sometimes I do get a flower stock. Each swollen node in that shoot could become a new plant start.

 

[GAB99]

thanks, when it grows roots can i just replant it?

 

[GAB99]

bump

 

[OldMan47]

When an offset has leaves and roots, you can clip the connecting shoot and plant the roots. You want to give the plant time to develop a good root system just to be on the safe side.

 

[GAB99]

When an offset has leaves and roots, you can clip the connecting shoot and plant the roots. You want to give the plant time to develop a good root system just to be on the safe side.

thanks alot