Re: Turnover rate of leaves on Tiger Lotus

["Kirk M." <triax at bellsouth_net>]

Rachael,

This is exactly what is happening.  Rotting off at the base.  My GH 
is  definitely not 1, though.  Last time I tested, it was somewhere in 
the  range of 6 dGH, and the dKH is about 8.  Is this possibly too high?
Right now, all but one of the original large leaves have fallen off, and 
there are only a few small leaves hanging on.  Will try the nutrient route 
and see what happens.

> Dave M's late reply to Kirk about the leaves on his tiger lotus reminded 
> me that I meant to reply to. The problem is that otherwise healthy leaves 
> rot from base of the plant.
>
> I had this problem also, and it was really frustrating. At the time the GH 
> of my water was around 1. I started adding Seachem's Equilibrium to bring 
> it up to around 4, and this has stopped hapening. Right now I am solving 
> the problem of it getting too big in two ways: first, by cutting off older 
> leaves, since they were getting covered with BBA (a problem which is 
> almost gone), and second, by changing my mind every month or so about 
> where I want the plant to be, and uprooting it.
>
> HTH,
>
> -rs



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