Thursday, October 23, 2003

PLANT DEVELOPMENTS 

Two pieces of good news and one piece of bad news. First the bad news. Either my placement of it or the adjustment to a new tank has rendered the Crinum calamistratum practically dead. When I planted it, it was about 6 inches long, heavily root-pruned, with about five well-developed leaves. As of today, I had to clip four of those leaves because they decayed to squishy nothingness. A fine white thread-like growth swirled around the ill leaves. However, it shows a couple of new leaves, so I'm going to give it time and see how it fares in the first 30 days.

Now, for the good news! Some of the riccia -- already -- is showing signs of oxygen pearling, which means that they're happy! Very exciting discovery.

 Riccia pearling on day 5
Riccia fluitans pearling oxygen bubbles after 5 days in the new tank.

The 2nd piece of good news is that the Glosso is starting to show new growth, with itsy-bitsy new leaves peeking about 2 millimeters out of the substrate.

The Dwarf subulata and the Japanese fan are maintaining their status, nothing new, no dire reactions, although the subulata has yellowed a bit at the tips.

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