Planting Carpeting Plants

[MyShrimpDied]

When you plant a carpeting plant, are you supposed to plant it in a large bunch? a few smaller bunches? or individual baldes?

The reason I ask is because I have planted microswords in my 10gal plant and they dont seem to be doing that well. They aren't dying, but they are not growing a carpet. It's dissapointing, I love the way microswords look.

Could you give me some tips on keeping/planting carpeting plants? specifically microswords and baby tears, I plan on taking clippings off the baby tears from my 10gal and planting them in my 20 gal.

~ MyShrimpDied

 

[Seaman]

most carpeting plants....basically all....need pretty high light to stay low...other wise they will tend to grow tall instead of low and wide....i would plant them a couple inches apart so when they spread they eventually all meet up and "carpet" the ground.

 

[Leopardess]

As seaman has said, you might not have enough light to see vigorous growth.

But, to plant carpet plants, yes, you should split them up. For glosso, if you've got the patience, you break them down into 1-2 plantlet sections, for hairgrass split it up into small chunks (as small as you can sanely go), same with microsword. Using large foot-long tweezers (or small tweezers if that's all you've got) makes this a much more manageable chore.