Bunch of stem plants

[scarf]

Hi,

I recently bought a bunch of stem plants from my LFS. They were bundled together near the bottom when I received them to keep them together for display in the LFS.

Just wondering, would I need to unbundle them?? ( i prefer not to)

Thanks

 

[An t-iasg]

Stem plants are usually sold as 6 stems/bunch, or 12 stems/bunch, etc. They are usually bunched together for ease of getting the correct number of stems out of the tanks. I just bought some stem plants tonight, sold in a bunch of 6. I found 8 when I opened the bunch!

You should take the little clip off and plant each stem individually. They will look better as they grow if they are spread out just a little bit. You can plant them close together, but each stem should have its own planting hole. With stem plants, I sometimes find that a "checkerboard" pattern looks nice.

 

[malkore]

correct. And furthermore, if you don't remove the metal band that bundles them, the plant stems will rot where the band is.

 

[Xzap]

The lead weight as Malkore said will definitely rot the plant where it's placed.
If you wanna keep 'em bunched, I use green sewing thread and bind them together loosely.

Thx,

Dave