Java fern

[Flower1982]

How do you seperate jave ferns? I have a java fern and it has tons of baby plants on it. How do I seperate the baby plants from the main plant?

 

[midiamin]

I think you should wait until the leaf turns. the mother leaf usually dies if left long enough. Then I detach the babies. By then, the babies have enough mature root to make it on there own. Sometimes I even detach the mother leaf and let it float. The leaf is replaced.

 

[malken]

I usually let them grow to about 1" and then carefully scrape them off the leaf with my fingernail. if it doesn't come off easily I leave it on until it's ready.

 

[Flower1982]

Thanks for the advice. The babies are pretty big right now actually.
I thought they would have fallen off by now. What do I do with all the baby java ferns? There a lot of them.

Here is a picture of the java fern.

Ok I have another question. What is this plant and how do I seperate the babies from the main plant?

 

[midiamin]

Send all your baby Java ferns to me, if you don't want them (heh-heh).

Also the last picture looks to be Anubius barteri nana. Do not separate the baby leaf yet. Let that bad boy grow out first. Once you get a resonable length of rhisome, you can split it making sure that each piece has 2-3 leaves plus ample roots.

 

[Flower1982]

Thanks for the information. I'm going to give a few baby java ferns to a friend of mine. But other than that I don't know anyone else who would want them lol. I guess I'll just leave them in tank and eventually my tank look like a mini jungle lol.

 

[FISHSHROD]

:grinyes:mini jungle is the idea

 

[Flower1982]

Do I need to get drift wood to tie the baby java ferns on or will they be ok attaching themselve to some of the gravel?

 

[Lupin]

Do I need to get drift wood to tie the baby java ferns on or will they be ok attaching themselve to some of the gravel?

Tie them to the wood.

 

[Flower1982]

The baby java ferns still haven't fallen off the mother plant yet.