Re: [APD] Best way to manage the pruning of bunch plants

["Liz Wilhite" <satirica at gmail_com>]

Busy but...

I do exactly what you are doing.  This lead me to using lower light levels.

Liz

On 10/17/07, John Eastwood <robot at internode_on.net> wrote:
>
> Maybe people are busy I guess....
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:aquatic-plants-bounces at actwin_com] On Behalf Of John Eastwood
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2007 10:09 AM
> To: aquatic plants digest
> Subject: [APD] Best way to manage the pruning of bunch plants
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Just after some information re: the pruning and management of bunch
> plants.
> My tank has metal halide lighting and pressurized CO2 and I use EI and my
> bunch plants grow nuts. If I keep cutting the tops out the bottom sections
> end up leggy and very straggly. So after around 8 prunes I have been
> ripping
> them up completely and replanting the tops. Am I doing this right, its
> pretty disruptive? Is there a way that I can prune the bunch plants and
> train them to grow thicker and wider and not head for the top so fast? I
> have noticed that my H.polysperma that grows in another tank is thicker in
> growth and the nodes are closer together than when grown under MH. My tank
> is 2 feet deep and it takes around 7-10 days for a 4"-6" cutting to make
> it
> too the surface.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
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