When to move plants in fishless cycling

[swanandmokashi]

Ok I am going to start fishless cycling on my 29 gallon tank.
I want to move 1-2 aponogeton plants from my current running 3 gallon to the new tank. I guess this will help the cycling? But will the nitrates readings be off of I have plants in there? Also is ammonia bad for plants?

At what point in the fishless cycling do i add plants?

 

[poikilotherm]

Ammonia is plant food, and the ammonia and nitrite levels present during cycling should not be harmful to plants. Go ahead and put them in early. It will not significantly affect your cycle. The plants may absorb some ammonia (slowing the cycle), but they also provide organic matter, oxygen, and surfaces to colonize (speeding it up).

 

[TankGirl]

If you have fast-growing plants in a cycling tank you may not ever get an ammonia or nitrite spike at all, and some consider this to be the ultimate way to cycle. The plants need optimum growing conditions with light and nutrients to accomplish this, but it never hurts.