LOL, it is the short version, if you join the AGA you can get the whole back catalog of talks for the price and this is like a basically free school for aquarium gardeners.
I thought my registration fee included my membership but because our CAS local club sponsoring and getting a discount, it did not include it. So I need to send them a membership payment. Also as a side note the refunded my registration fee because of my volunteering /helping so much all the days. Very kind of them to notice and do that!
I feel so fortunate I was able to see so many talented, skilled and knowledgeable people in 2 days! And be at the auction on the last day.
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Next topic.
There are several Tissue Culture plants I have and they have been sitting under the lamp with a K rating which should grow low to med. plants. It is in a floor lamp and a bit far from the plants themselves. Being that most of them are in the plastic cups they weren't seeming to be getting the amount of light they were used to from the wholesale/grower companies.
I Have one Dwarf Chain Sword /Echinodorus tenellus, which was growing long and folding over at the top pretty much shading half of the plant.
And the Glossostigma Elatinoides which I will probably kill anyways.
But I took a Trenta Starbucks cup (30 oz clear and strong plastic cup) and made the cup a bigger "terrarium". Added the lid back on top with the slight indentation where the straw went in.
Added a couple hands of the Amazonia Light Substrate. Set the plant from the cup on top. Then I thought I might just need to add a mesh, but the roots are fine so I used some large tulle netting I had from previous DIY tank projects.
Just cut a wide oblong so there would be edges for me to grab it out of the cup with added a handful of the substrate on that and then the plant and another handful sprinkled over that. I need to add some around the edges too.
Thinking that the plant will growinto the substrate and be held together in the root sone with the net which is off white. I would purchase substrate matching color if I planned it out next time. But this way it can be buried and not seen yet still help hold the plants in place.
It seems that holding these in place are an issue in some substrates.
Interestingly the 2 pots of these one from Tropica the Glosso, and the other from /slipped my mind atm did not have the gel in the bottom.
The other one, also from the second company is the Baby Leaf Bolbitis Difformis. Has a disc of gell it is growing in.
The tent like container is from Florida Aquatic Nursery and the Staurogyne Repens has gel.
If it actually grows I will be pretty pleased, if not I just wasted a few bucks
Will get a couple pics if I can in the next couple days. The big concern might be bacteria
or fungi growth now that they are not in a ~ sterile environment, but still in a moist previously used cup. although if there is an issue, I could us a never used cup and gloves. Substrate is still a factor /not sterile.
I still have 2 packages of the DHG and might try one in a plastic shoe box with the tulle if it seems to go well. Lay down a layer of 1/2 inch to 1 inch squares for the DHG to grow and root into so it is easier to place into the subtrate and stay put!!!
