3 plants on one stem

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i have this sword type plant and one stem has what looks like 3 small plants on it in series. they are all in a row basically equally spaced out. If they are each individual plants, I'd like to put them into the gravel right away. is that ok? thanks.

 

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Sounds like baby plantlets. got any pics? usually you should wait 'til they start growing their own roots before removing them from the mother plant.

 

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Amazon swords will put out plantlets from its leaves. What I do is weigh them down and let them establish a root system. When fully established I cut them off from Mom and plant in a suitable location or give them to a friend.

 

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Yeah, I do pretty much what Michel does, leave them attached but lay them along the substrate until the "babies" get bigger leaves & roots. The runner supplies needed nutrition for a while & they're much easier to deal with while still attached to the runner IME. Tiny roots are a PITA to try & plant.

 

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can someone post pics cuase i dont know if my plants have started growing plantlets yet... i mean its been a few months since i had em, and welll idk

 

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Here

 

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oh ****, i dont have any plants with anything like that

 

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is it a stem plant?

 

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this is what i was referring to. thanks for your patience!


P1100756 by epiclaydown, on Flickr

just curious when and where i can cut them to have little baby plants.

 

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I like to leave some runner attached so I can put a small rock on it to hold it down. The runner will then rot off. Or when the plantlets are a bit bigger you can just gently pick them off the runner & the runner might make more babies. Too soon though, yours are teeny.