Crypts do propagate by runners if I'm not wrong. I've seen my crypts from the defunct Gratiola attached with baby plants by runners.
Crypts do propagate by runners if I'm not wrong. I've seen my crypts from the defunct Gratiola attached with baby plants by runners.
I think most Crypts do propagate by runners
Nicholas
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Dun think they are runners like the vallis and echis... They seem to be from the rizhome... which can grow very long...
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So you're saying a new plant grows out of the side of the parent? Erm... essentially the same way nanas propagate?
Oh, shoots can appear a little far away, depending on the length of the rizhome...
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Pardon my ignorance, what's a rhizome? Do you have a plant chart or something?
In other words the rhizome is the horizontal "stalk" where the plants come out from. In Anubias new leaves come out from this "stalk".
crypts are runners la... rhizomes are like stem that can grow new shoots,..
lifeisfullofemptypromisesandbrokendreams
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its like the java fern rhizome too.
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Rhizome of a Java fern indicated by the arrow in the picture above.
In the picture below, it's more relevant to Crypts.
Actually, at a glance, they can look like runners, but if you look carefully, they are actually rizhomes. Roots can be seen on some parts of the rizhomes, runners don't have roots. Also, the rizhomes can get thick to store extra nutrients, something which runners don't do also.Originally Posted by johannes
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Ahh... that explains alot =) Thanks guys. Now I'll just have to wait for my crypt carpet to re-grow.
Another question. If crypts flower, do they bear fruit too?
But crypts dun flower when submerged in water leh... But got to ask Lorba to confirm...
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I'm just wondering what a crypt fruit looks like And shouldn't you be asleep?
but i thought runners like vallis and e.tennelus have roots?Originally Posted by Justikanz
if not, damn...i have been wrong for a long time...
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The runners themselves do not have roots. However, the part where the new plant emerges should have roots.
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Crypt carpet... sounds interesting. You mean you can get crypts (what species you growing btw?) to grow in a compact, carpet-liked form? How do you control where, along the rhizome, new leaves will sprout?Originally Posted by XnSdVd
I have a wendtti 'green' that has very big (long) rhizome but comparatively fewer leaves. For such cases, how can we encourage the plant to sprout new leaves?
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I played cheat when I planted my crypts. I twirled the rhizome to bring the plantlets closer to the mother plant... Just dun break the rizhome!
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