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Re: Red Tiger Lotus
| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:26:53 GMT
| From: "don" <don at calimages_com>
| Subject: Red Tiger Lily Question
|
| First, a bit of background:
|
| The one that lived is much shorter now, like 10", but the leaves are HUGE.
| The size of my hand! And I'm getting 1-2 new leaves each week. Needless to
| say, it's taking over one corner of my tank. My sword is getting shaded by
| it too. Though the sword is pushing out longer leaves to compensate. Rather
| interesting...
Mine have big leaves !
|
| So, my question is: How safe is it to remove the older leaves? Or should I
| just let it grow? It's beautiful, and I wouldn't mind letting it go...:-)
As I have two of them I'm forced to cut old leaves quite near the rhizome...
I will say you have to keep at least one big leaf, one half grow up and a baby one.
Two big ones should be better. I don't cut anything when some fishes mechanically
damaged some of them !
|
| Oh, and another question: It seems to be a rhizome based plant. If so, how
| big should I let the rhizome get before separating it? Does it reproduce
| vegetatively? I'd like to spread it around my tank some.
I have the same question :-( . A plantlet develops from time to time but I have no idea
how and when to separate it. Last time my botiae prevented it to grow to adulthood...
|
| Thanks!
|
| DonT
|
Philippe