growing like weeds......no worse

by **a1k8t31524** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:45 am

ok so i dont know what it is going on......
but it is a good thing.
for the last week my plants have blown up.....like growing massive amounts...
my hornwart is growing 4 - 6 inches a day
my ricca which 2 weeks ago i had 2 patches about 6in each
is now covering half of the tank. my amazon sward is sending out chutes every which way i have probally 15 little different plantlets....
same thing with my corkscrew vails......
It is crazy and i haven't changed a thing, .Still the same routine as always
I cant figure this thing out, its not a bad thing
i am either going to have to start selling plants off or something i am running out of room....

by **a1k8t31524** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:49 am

mabey i could set up a secondary "plant" tank..... using a rubbermaid container or something and a cheep growbulb

by **a70m1c** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 4:53 am

I know here in Australia (cairns) my plants go nuts in summers and die off a bit in winter.
I dont run a heater in my tank as the temp here is always 25 Celcius plus.
(i did have a water chiller when i had walking fish)
it is going into summer for us now and all my plants are starting to grow at a much quicker rate. it would be going into winter in US for you...and imagine you would have to run a heater...have you been running extra heat in your place becasue its getting cold?

by **a1k8t31524** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:31 pm

we did just start turning on the heater in the house, but the temp of my tank does keeps a stedy temp

by **a1k8t31524** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:48 am

this is just a week after triming up...

by **a1k8t31524** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:49 am

by **a1k8t31524** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:50 am

by **Tmercier834747** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 2:41 pm

wow, looks great man. Far cry from what it used to be.

Is that hornwort thats going crazy on you? (more crazy than the rest, that is)

Edit: I guess it would help if I actually read your first post like a good little...something. No need to answer my redundant question. lol

by **a1k8t31524** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:17 pm

yeah the hornwort is insane.......... i am savind up the extra plants from when i trim everything up........hopefully my lfs will geve me a little store credit for it....
I get my pressurised C02 here in the next few weeks too..... i wonder what will happen when i put that in

by **yasherkoach** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:27 am

a1k, be happy with that plant life. It looks great. I'd rather have plants growing fast as all heck than extremely slow or dying back

you know part of the job of keeping live plants is to clip them, trim them back - of course clipping or trimming them will make them grow faster ((((smiles)))) but this is part of the course

just be happy - tank oooks really good

you could turn off the lighting a little more each day, it may help slow down the photosynthesis, that is, instead of 10 hours each day (as I do mine), leave the lights on for only 8 hours, it may help...also your roots may be very well spread out, they could be getting plenty nutrients from the gravel, this could also be the cause to the growth explosion...if you put CO2 in, it will probably grow it even faster but most definitely they will oook more greener - only thing is, I wonder if the CO2 will be too much

regardless if it appears right or wrong, just clip or trim the plants, and be very happy that the plants are striving naturally (by the way, I frown upon CO2, I rather go the natural way)

growing like weeds......no worse

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