plants on wood?

Well...I'm trying to think....(can't believe I actually had to type that out lol)


Doesn't glosso require a nutrient rich substrate? If so, I would think it couldn't be permanently grown on wood/rocks...but is maybe sometimes used in the "mat" way for pictures/contests?


It'd be cool if it could - cuz I've never thought about it....but somehow it seems doubtful. Not trying to say you're wrong slappy...just wondering:)

Anyone know?
 
Originally posted by Robv1965
Will Java Fern attach itself to fake driftwood (resin) ?
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I currently have a small JF on top of a resin cave. It's been there a while so should be attached. I'll check it out a report back!
 
Java Fern and Moss will attach themselves to anything that has a somewhat porous surface.
Most Anubia will root into porous surfaces as well.

Len
 
Over the christmas period i have been living away from my flat where my tank is.I have been nipping back to feed the fish, do water changes,put leccuce in my tank for my silver dollars and so on.
I'm sure you can guess what i am about to say!
I dont think my Silver dollars felt like they were getting enough food and so they decided to go after my plants. They ate every plant except my huge amazon sword, my java moss, my java fern and my glosso.
All the new growth on all plants was nibbled a lot too!
They particularly decimated the large Anubia i had on my driftwood!:mad2 So i would say your anubias are safe unless you are going on holiday!
 
Originally posted by Leopardess
Doesn't glosso require a nutrient rich substrate? If so, I would think it couldn't be permanently grown on wood/rocks...

Anyone know?
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Well, IME, I haven't used a rich substrate on this last round of glosso, just an aggressive water column feeding schedule. And the glosso's a little leggy while it's growing *outward*, but it's still growing like mad, period.

I have several Amano pix where the glosso has grown over and onto at least three inches of pumice and other porous stone. I also have the Amano microscopic image of the tips of glosso roots, and I can very well imagine those tiny roots grabbing even the smalles of cracks in wood or stone.

I'll let you know for SURE in about three months (when my own field of glosso reaches the Holey Rock in the tank). :)
 
Cool...it'll be neat to see:)


I knew they could grab on to just about anything:)


PS. You know what? I'm a bit forgetfull! I just realized that in my planted 10g, I have a big flat riccia rock. Somehow, when I was planting it, a piece of glosso had gotten stuck under the hair net. Now, it's grown a few leaves since then....so something tells me it could, in fact, grow more. I mean, the fact is that it DOES grow there, not how FAST it grows. Apparently, I can't connect 2 and 2. This whole time I've had glosso growing on just a rock....and was asking if it could be done;)

So, for me, the little bit that I have is taking much longer to grow on the rock; its probably only 6 pairs of leaves long, while the rest of the tank has filled in a thick carpet (from a few sprigs of one pair of leaves per plant.) I guess it will work, it will just take quite a while.
 
ONe that grows on wood for me is Barclaya Longifolia. Its a beautiful plant, you just have to stay on top of the water column ferts. Actually, the plant rooted itself on the drfitwood voluntarily. It came from a seed from a rooted plant in the substrate. I would think you could simply tie one on a log like you do with other plants. The roots get a little bushy on the log.

Also, won't some crypts root to wood? I thought I have seen some rooted on driftwood somewhere. Will it grow on the wood?
 
Never heard of crypts growing on wood, they're generally fairly heavy root feeders. I suppose it might be possible with some species of crypt...who knows?
 
Well, my JF is not attached to the resin cave. Must not have enough (any) nooks and crannies to grab hold of. It stays put though. I had it in the gravel for a couple weeks so it could grab hold of a few peices of gravel. Now its a weighted java fern and the gravel keeps it atop the cave.
 
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