aponogeton ulvaceus

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jbueno

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Its a bulb plant I bought at my lfs sell it has twisty broad leafs...it grows like crazy...i have this huge growth of about a foot I about 3 days...whats the best way to get the maxium width or size of this plant?
 
You just need to provide good growing conditions - carbon, ferts, and decent light. Also, older plants will put off bigger leaves than younger plants, so that might just take time.
 
Should I trim the growth? Its grown a long narrow thing should I trimm it back to length desired?
 
You can't really 'trim' an aponogeton like you can a stem plant. You have to remove the entire leaf basically. This is one of the limitations of rosette/bulb plants in that it's more difficult to shape a plant that's not the right size for the tank, hence why a healthy amazon sword in a 10g looks ridiculous.
 
Wait, are you talking about the long stemmy looking guys? Those are just runners, and you can hack them off if you want.
 
I chopped one off but left one it has sprouted... Good? Bad?



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That looks like a flower. You can just leave it.
 
Cool it has gottin realy big now ill post a pic later but the white part is almost 2 inches...
 
Idk what to think about it... Kinda wanna chop it off but maybe after it drops the seeds
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Aponogetons send up those big shoots up for reproducing. I have the same plant that takes about 2 days to send a runner up to the top of my aquarium. Supposedly if you let it stay there it will germinate and die back for a month or two before growing back along with tons of copies. I have yet to see it die back and just leave the runners there. They don't hurt anything
 
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