Plant maintenance with new plants

[Paul195]

Hi all

Now that my plants have been submerged for 3 weeks and have started to grow, I was wondering what steps I need to take next to maintain them.

In some cases, new smaller leaves have grown which are a different colour to the original leaves. Am I right in saying that this is submerged growth, whereas the original leaves were grown emerged ? In these cases, is it a good idea to start removing the original leaves to leave just the newly grown leaves ?
Will this trigger more new healthy submerged growth ? If I were to leave the original leaves would this stop or slow down new growth ?

I find it quite tricky to remove stalks / leaves in the tank and would probably end up dislodging the plants anyway! Is it ok to uproot the plants in general to maintain them ? I have a lot of plants so this will create a fair bit of substrate disturbance so I assume uprooting/removing leaves and stems/replanting should precede a large WC ?

Any tips appreciated!

Paul

 

[ceg4048]

Hello,
It's best to leave well enough alone and to not cause more problems than you solve. There are no next steps. If the old leaves are not dying then consider it a success and simply carry on.
Pruning and re-planting is to be performed at a later date to improve aesthetics and ti fill out the spaces.

Cheers,

 

[Paul195]

It's best to leave well enough alone and to not cause more problems than you solve

Ok I will leave them as they are for the time being.

Cheers!