Barclaya longifolia

[joydiv]

Bought this Barclaya longifolia green from a forumer not so long ago. Now it is flowering.

Attached are the pics of the flower. Hopefully will see new shoots.

[Cacatuoides]

Wow...nice nice!!

[richietay]

nice, never had a chance to experience plant flowering.

[juggler]

Nice that you canptured it to share. My red barclaya usually flower underwater. It never reaches water surface. Strange.

[neon]

My green BL grows really long,huge leaves, but never see them flowers.

The leaves easily torn away or holes. How about yours ?

[Kingfisher]

Mine grows lots of flower buds but never bloom at all.

[joydiv]

I dont have problems with holes in the older leaves. I keep my substrate really rich, adding stick fertilisers frequently.

Also I am dosing on the high side with EI as a guide.
Lastly, the tank receive quite a bit of morning sun , from 7 30am right up to about 11 am.
Perhaps the sunlight acts as a natural trigger.

[ah^siao]

yeah the red ones like never reaches the surface. always in the water

[wahboy]

hello,

Do not cut away the flower even when it stops blooming because it might self-pollinate then become a fruit and set seed. Let it curl under water and see what happens next.

My water lily flower took about a month to set seed.

Please try this out and let us know if it set seed.

[ragn4rok]

Wowww.. very nice.. How long is the leaves? Mine (Red BL) doesn't grow optimally like yours. The leaves are not very shiny and grow very slow.

Tank spec :
- 2500L,
- natural sunlight,
- temp 24C,
- kH 4 gH 5 pH 7 NO3 20ppm
- media : potted soil + silica sand
- water change 24 hr

[neon]

Your leaves do not look healthy. Probably it is still stunt or need to adapt that environment . Initially I had 3 red + 3 green, but all the red did not last long. The green one took months to stabilize , very often the stem of leaf will come loose. Now the green leaves grow really long and fat.

I am using EI method under MH.

[Lam_wn]

Hi,
sorry, I am not very familar with this plant, but I remember it being of the tall range? How tall on avg is your plant? And how long a spike does it send up?
While on the topic, can I ask where, besides those farmway places like Teo's, can I get this plant?
thanks

[joydiv]

The leaves are as long as 2 feet for my plant, the spike is up to 1.5 feet, which is the height of my tank. Availability of this plant is , well unpredictable, I do see it at other LFS, Colourful(at Thomson, next to NA) and Ecoculture are some of them.