Wisteria

[lovemybarbs]

My wisteria is growing and the tops are popping off. I suppose I should let them float around for a while, because their little tops are sort of hard to plant.

These are new plants. I really want these plants to get tall. How many times are their tops going to pop off?

[Robert H]

What the heck are you talking about? Wisteria tops do not pop off. Its all one stem Perhaps you are talking about Watersprite, which looks something like Wisteria. It forms baby plants at the stem elbows which can detach.

[lovemybarbs]

:eek3:

See plant #1 and this thread. It didn't like Wisteria to me, but I was told that is what it was. It still could be.

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136545

[jaysen]

yeah it looks like a type of hygro to me, i never thought it looked like wisteria. i guess it is confirmed not to be wisteria after the tops are popping off.

[theotheragentm]

That isn't Water Sprite. That looks a little like Wisteria to me, but like it's emmersed growth. How long have you had the plant? My Wisteria looks like this picture from Plant Geek.

http://www.plantgeek.net/images/plantpics/wysteria.jpg

Incidentally, I do lose tops off my plants once in a while.

[lovemybarbs]

:wall:

Here's some current pictures. They're healthy, just multiplying. First pic is the same plant, second pic is a shoot that came off and the third is just the tank. I have one floating, it's stem isn't long enough to plant.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/vburnau/DSC01064.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/vburnau/DSC01065.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/vburnau/DSC01067.jpg

[lovemybarbs]

This is what it looked like when I bought it:

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/vburnau/DSC01052.jpg

[theotheragentm]

That's definitely the emmersed growth in the picture of when you first got it. I don't know why it's breaking at the tops though. I know some of my really thin stems do that, but Wisteria has always been pretty hardy from my experience. What kind of wattage do you have on the tank?

[lovemybarbs]

400 Watt--one bulb with some reflectors. I want to upgrade it soon. The holidays is not a good time for this.

[livingword26]

Any chance one of your fish could be biting the tops off? I had wisteria for quit a while and never had anything like that happen. Odd.

[lovemybarbs]

The last one came off when I was vacuuming today. A little too easy if you ask me. It is like the new growth with the actually wisteria looking leaves is starting new plants.

I guess it is just me. I'm just happy it's growing.

[soobie]

I just got some wisteria a few weeks ago, and it did exactly the same as yours. It only had emersed growth (like your "before" picture) when I bought it, and after I put it in the tank, all that growth started dying off because those leaves were adapted to living in air, not water. The new growth is adapted to live in water (and to my eye, the feathery leaves are more attractive anyway) and is growing well.

On a couple stems, the emersed growth portion of the stem died as well as the leaves, just leaving the tops. I let them float until they were long enough to plant, but you could also tie them to a weight to keep them on the bottom.

[yourchoice]

The gravel is not very good.Smaller will give the roots better chance to grow making the over health of the plant better.

[lovemybarbs]

The gravel is a pain. I've actually mixed in some finer bags in the past of the same color to help. More on the left side would help.

Well, thanks for all the help and I'll keep everyone updated with pictures.

[FISHSHROD]

I believe it's just the way the plant reproduces . Once they start growing roots they tend to get weak at the point of the roots . I have to harvest regularly to keep them from out growing the tank.

[DarrylR]

My wisteria with high light, dual 25 watts on a 10 gallon tank with flourish fert maybe every 2 weeks.

Plant in the back, flame moss on driftwood. You can actually see the 2 diffrent wisteria, the one ALL the way in the back was wisteria when I first bought it. The bigger wisteria is now the new growth due to high light and ferts.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/flip_boy_04/100_2701.jpg

[FtwayneFish]

i second all the info from above. the large leaves are a diff growth style and the thin finger leaves are high light. and the tops popping off isnt exactly normal but ok. replant and enjoy.