A personal blog about Cryptocorynes, waterplants and fishkeeping.
I have Cryptocoryne auriculata “Tiger stripes” ´Julau´ for some time now (3 months). As the leaves got bigger it finally got its beautiful pattern. I can’t wait for a spathe. Hope it comes soon.
I was unable to take a photo of these pretty leaves during the day therefore this was taken in “low light condition” using just my lamp.
Not a long time ago a friend of mine told me about Dennerle’s new stock item (maybe it is in a stock for a long time, but I had no idea). As an impatient person I ordered some and planted it during this weekend. It was in a plastic pot, in vitro culture, so I had plenty of plants. Some are in emersed setup and the rest (well, most of it) went into my tanks.
I am not much of in vitro plants fan, but lets see how it goes.
I have been waiting the whole last week for Cryptocoryne cordata’s spathe to open. Luckily I did not miss it and made some photos this weekend. Spathe was approx. 13 cm long.
When I cleaned my setups today and looked closely on my plants. What a surprise when I found spathes in both pots. In one pot, I even have three of them. Both pots are already full and plants have many plantlets.
Sorry for poor quality. Since I don’t have macro lens, close up filters lower the quality.
I guess I need to lower the humidity and vent it more to get rid of this algae/fungus.
Recently I uploaded a photo of unopened spathe. Here is the rest…
To tell the truth, I was expecting a nice red limb which I have seen on other photos. What a surprise when It had a yellow limb. It resembles me a photo on the Crypt pages labeled as “coll. NJ 3103, cult. B 371”. Anyway, I am happy it is thriving. So far it has flowered at least twice.
Yesterday I got some new species for my collection. It is like having Christmas in summer. 🙂 My Cryptocoryne list expanded a little bit – by Cryptocoryne bullosa and Cryptocoryne keei.
Temporarily they are placed in a plastic container with strong current, but I am redoing a small tank for them. I am curious whether I will manage to grow them. I am a little bit worried about Cryptocoryne bullosa.
Since the plants are tiny and not very distinctive, photos will come later.
Recently, a colleague collector wrote me a message about getting new species. Since I was curious whether I have something to trade I looked, looked closely on my Crypts and found out my Cryptocoryne minima is developing inflorescence. So far it is tiny and I am waiting at least fourth day to open, but It made me happy. The spathe is – as expected – approx. 1-1,5cm.
I will comment more on this topic when the spathe opens.
For now, a few photos.
Another recent addition to my slowly growing collection. In comparison to the C. auriculata, It was in emersed form, but It was smaller. It is growing much faster and right now It would have 6-7 leaves.
It was labeled as “Golden ring” ´Bukit Ibam´, but I found out that the other websites rather use the name “Yellow ring”.
Again, substrate is a mix of beech leaves and Seramis. So far seems fine to me.
I got this Cryptocoryne in March/April. It was in submersed condition and had a nice pattern – Tiger stripes as the label said. Soon after it converted to emersed form it lost these stripes. But I am still waiting when the plant grows larger, so who knows.
Substrate is a mix of beech leaves and Seramis.
It was my first blackwater Cryptocoryne. Although I’ve read it was easy to grow, I was a little bit worried. I got in a submersed form but It converted quite fast. Now It fills one pot (approx. 8cm in diameter) and in another one it is starting to thrive too. As I wrote in previous post, I have it in a pH about 4,5 and EC approx. 350 μS/cm and substrate – beech leaves.
Sorry for a dirty pot. I have realized how the pot is dirty after taking a photo and during editing the images.
