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Re: trimming techniques
> trimming techniques
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> * To: aquatic-plants at actwin_com (Aquatic Plants Digest)
> * Subject: trimming techniques
> * From: Roxanne Bittman <rbittman at kirk_dfg.ca.gov>
> * Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:20:19 PDT
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> Several people have asked a similar question to the following, but, as far
> as I have read, noone has (dared?) to answer it.
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> The question involves the best technique that people have discovered for
> trimming aquatic plants in aquaria. With the excellent conditions we
> provide these plants, their growth is nothing short of incredible.
> Sometimes I feel the need to trim things like Rotala indica or Micranthemum
> micranthemoides twice per week.
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> For stem plants, like Rotala indica, R. wallichii, Hygrophila stricta,
> etc., which is best?:
> 1. Pull out individual stem; cut a new length; discard
> root-bearing part; replant top part. This will result in disturbing
> substrate and is a lot of work.
> 2. Hair cut method: take scissors and cut midway down stem and
> allow to regrow. Plants will become bushy from cut-point this way.
> 3. Cut stem near base; leave rooted part in substrate and
> replant cut stem. This sounds good in theory, but with the mass of roots
> at the base of the plants, it is not that practical to replant the cut
> stems. Also, over time, this will result in a much denser stand of the
> plant since the cut, rooted part will regrow.
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> Comments? Thanks,
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> Roxanne Bittman
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I'm impartial to technique 2. Mostly because I use and love that I get
extra plants for free. Plus you get a more dense appearance as you do
this.
Method 1 is used with elodea, bacopa, ludwigia, cabomba, and other
similar plants. They use technique this supposedly because it is
assumed that these plants do not produce a large root network, so the
disturbance to the substrate is minimal.
However, I use technique 2 for all my plants except bulbs plants (like
my Mad Lace plant).
Good luck,
healer