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What Stem/s For My Wabi-Kusa

Andy D

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Hi All,

I am looking to set up a couple of really basic Wabi-Kusa using my Do! Aqua plant glass 'cubes'. (For reference they are 15cm x 15cm x 20cm ( l x d x h ).

Can someone recommend a couple of stem plants that should grow out of the glass and (hopefully) flower?

Would in-vitro plants be best?

I am planning to use Tropica Soil as a substrate.

Thanks!
Andy
 
Hi All,

I am looking to set up a couple of really basic Wabi-Kusa using my Do! Aqua plant glass 'cubes'. (For reference they are 15cm x 15cm x 20cm ( l x d x h ).

Can someone recommend a couple of stem plants that should grow out of the glass and (hopefully) flower?

Would in-vitro plants be best?

I am planning to use Tropica Soil as a substrate.

Thanks!
Andy
Hi Andy,

Sounds like you have the bug! WK's just draw my attention and I wish you all the best with yours. I would recommend Hygrophila Araguaia as a good flowering emersed plant. Check out Greenfinger2(Roy) and also Nelsons threads in the wabi kusa or emersed section. I know they have had this plant flowering in a WK and they look amazing.

All the best of luck with this!

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Hygrophila lancea flowers easily too and is a very hardy WK plant. Roy (greenfinger2) sended me a few cuttings from this plant last year and they where already flowering. Grew them on an now are flowering again. He sended me another one with a flower but i forgot it's name, something with Rubra.. I bet you'll find it back with flower if you search his wabi kusa journals.. Pogostemon is also a very good plant to grow emersed it takes lower humidity very good but i yet not managed to make it flower, but it can i've seen it. Most Rotalas also grow very good emersed and a lot of them flower easily. Also Heteranthera zosterifolia i've seen growing emersed and flower.

To make a plant flower is not always easy depends on the species and geographical origine some need specific light hours and or intensity others need some specific soil propperties to induce flowering like a potasium or phosphate rich substrate.. Some plants just do not flower indoors at all which probably is a light intensity issue, i do not realy know why. I think sometimes even temperaturs play a role, like we had a very chilly presummer this year and i have much less flowers this year then last year.

Anyway if you have a plant of which emersed and outdoor cultivation data is available then usualy they also give a flowering periode, like from this month to that month. Try to mimic the lighthours from that periode. For annual plants the shorter day hours induce it to flowering because it wants to propagate by seeds before it dies. With perennials it can be from early summer to late summer or all year long. In our trade where the data is aimed towards aquatic cultivation and propagated by cuttings this flowering data does not apply. This way we can rejuvenate and grow on an anual plant for multiple years.

Some time ago i found a scientific paper where was stated that not only light hours induce flowering and there is much more to it. Unfortunately the article was not in depth.
I'm only an intrested hobbyist flower freak and do a lot of guessing in this part.. You might ask @dw1305 about this subject, he's a botanist..
 
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