Planting Aponogeton Madagascariensis

[Voo]

I've recently purchased this plant, but no idea how i'm meant to plant it. It looks to have grown funny, but i don't want to bury the side shoots that appear to be growing from the bulb.

The main plant is on the left end, yet there's 2 shoots growing at the top right.

Any ideas how i can plant this?

Thanks

 

[Ed Seeley]

Bury as much of the roots in the substrate and leave the rhizome half buried with all the shoots above the substrate. Personally I like to leave a lot of the rhizome above the substrate if I can and just anchor it with the roots.

 

[Voo]

Thanks Ed, didn't think of this as a rhizome. It was a bulb, so i buried my other one.

Should i chop off the bottom leaf on the left then to plant it? It's pointing downwards as show in the picture. The main shoots are at a 90 degree angle to the other shoots

 

[chilled84]

Plant it like you plant a water lilly in a pond, leave the crown exsposed or itll rott, just bury the roots with a rock anchor. wrapp roots around the rock half way then bury that aswell just to help it stay down while its shoots new roots.

 

[Ed Seeley]

Thanks Ed, didn't think of this as a rhizome. It was a bulb, so i buried my other one.

Should i chop off the bottom leaf on the left then to plant it? It's pointing downwards as show in the picture. The main shoots are at a 90 degree angle to the other shoots

I'd leave it on and leave it lying on the substrate; it will soon move round into a more upright position.

The differences between rhizomes, bulbs, corms and tubers are mainly botanical technicalities and they all do the same function really - to store energy reserves for the plant.