Red Tiger Lotus – a flowering diary…

[hwchoy]

[quote:19ceab3d9a="aizaspurz"]The flower....any scent to it? [/quote:19ceab3d9a]

yah very light and slight fragrant, you have to stick your nose right it do smell it

[kc]

Choy,
Noticed that the flower is above the light. You must have another set of light located higher above the tank. Is it MH or PL type?

Jarno stick.? Never heard of it but will try to get it too. Where can i try to get it from.

[hwchoy]

[quote:ccc9615414="kc"]Choy,
Noticed that the flower is above the light. You must have another set of light located higher above the tank. Is it MH or PL type?[/quote:ccc9615414]

yah, my living room ceiling light lor, 40W FL man seriously what do you think there's another set of lights. It just grew through tank lighting because the light is very close to the water surface.

If you're wondering about the photography, it is done with flash bounced against the ceiling.

[quote:ccc9615414="kc"]Jarno stick.? Never heard of it but will try to get it too. Where can i try to get it from. [/quote:ccc9615414]

The brand is Jaqno from Japan, I think the only distributor is ProPet (near K&K) in Tampines St 21. Anyway I think Root Monsters and other similar ones work just as well (though I have never tried).

[vinz]

I got my Jacno sticks from Nature Aquarium in Thomson yionks ago. Not sure if he still carries them.

Choy, now that you have a flower, we can use it to ID the lily.

[vinz]

I don't have time to go thru the pics at the moment, but here's a good place to start http://www.geocities.com/lilypage808/indexb.htm

[hwchoy]

just to update that this plant has gone berserk! a FIFTH flower bud just appeared, five in 20 days!

[elmike]

To: hwchoy

I once added salt my to tank and within the next 2 days that followed, several leaves fr my tiger lotus plt melted away, starting fr the leaf margins. I'm inclined to attribute the cause to the increased salt content. I'm more wary abt adding salt after that experience but it's like making a choice to save either the fish or the tiger. Since you probably hold the key to tiger lotus cultivation, I need to ask if you add salt at all to your tank?

I read that NaCl in excess of 2g / L will adversely affect plts in general and my feeling is tiger lotus is much more sensitive to salt than thick leaf plts like anubias, java ferns and sword plts.

My lotus is also not growing any taller although I see a new leaf a week. I know that dimming the light or having a total black out for 3 days will stimulate ht, but that'll do the other plts no good. I have also been procrastinating on sticking in a fertiliser tab but will this give ht.

Any suggestion to achieve your kind of growth??

[hwchoy]

no idea Elmike, I definitely do not add salt to my tank. In fact I had to cut away 4 flower buds because the plant was overstretching itself and starting to grow weak. I am now trying to persuade it to go back to submersed mode by cutting off all new floating leaves. I recorded a total of 11 flowers (some removed without blooming) and there are still two buds emerging which I will also cut off.

I also suspect the rhizome has grown VERY big as my substrate is bulging ominously in front of the plant. the more common thick-leaved kind of tiger lotus does not have a rhizome.