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Re:Apons



At 03:48 PM 10/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:43:34 -0600
>From: ruddigar at home_com
>Subject: sprouting Aponogeteons
>
>One of my Apons is sprouting another 'leaf'.  I don't know if it is a
>regular leaf or another flower stalk.  I cut the last one off because
>when I let it grow out of the tank, it got roasted by the lights.  The
>new 'leaf' doesn't have any foliage yet, it's about four inches long and
>pointed.  Any ideas?

It is probably a flower stalk


>   My other Apon is finally growing again after a long dormancy.  I had
>forgotten all about it until I saw the two inch leaves this morning.
>What would have triggered this new growth?

Nothing, it just came out of hibernation.  Apons do that as the places 
where they come from have periods of drought.

>   I did start dosing with Flourish and F. Iron again, after about a
>month without - but that was almost two months ago.  There is another
>46W of light, but the tank used to et some indirect sunlight, so there
>may actually bee less light.
>
>
>Jason Miller
>Sherwood Park, AB
>Canada

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