Iliveinazoo
Member
About a month ago while I was relocating some of my plants I noticed that the bulb had come off my Nymphaea Lotus and it had established it's own roots, I assumed that this was a natural propagation process and that the plant would go from strength to strength and new shoots and roots would appear from the now discarded bulb.
A month on and no shoots or roots have appeared on the bulb and the original plant looks like it is going to the dogs; I now only have 3 very small leaves that appear to be healthy and i've had to trim off the larger pads that were starting to deteriate.
So I have a couple of questions really:
Could it be that the old bulb has exhausted itself and will never produce new growth?
Do you think that the die off iss due to the relocation and the plant should recover?
It's grown fairly well over the last year but could it be that it was just dying a slow death because of my lowish lighting and all the new growth that I've seen was coming from the stored ferts already in the bulb at the time of purchase?
I only have 1.5WP(US)G compact fluorescent on the tank with regular liquid carbon dosing (approx 5ml daily) and James C's macro and micro dry salt dosing on alternate days (approx 10ml each)
A month on and no shoots or roots have appeared on the bulb and the original plant looks like it is going to the dogs; I now only have 3 very small leaves that appear to be healthy and i've had to trim off the larger pads that were starting to deteriate.
So I have a couple of questions really:
Could it be that the old bulb has exhausted itself and will never produce new growth?
Do you think that the die off iss due to the relocation and the plant should recover?
It's grown fairly well over the last year but could it be that it was just dying a slow death because of my lowish lighting and all the new growth that I've seen was coming from the stored ferts already in the bulb at the time of purchase?
I only have 1.5WP(US)G compact fluorescent on the tank with regular liquid carbon dosing (approx 5ml daily) and James C's macro and micro dry salt dosing on alternate days (approx 10ml each)