Does my amazon sword have a runner?

I did a gravel vac yesterday and noticed this long stalk coming out of my amazon sword is this a runner must a put this into the gravel? Its coming out the water now and its growing fast its the first time I'm keeping plants so I'm learning as I go I no the vallis will propagate themselve but I'm confused to what's going on here. Thanks

 

its a flower stem - it will make plantlets on the stem... when they have a large-ish root you can clip them off and plant them one by one

 

Describe this "runner" - it could be a flower!

 

Its the flower i googled it, its now poking the aquarium hood im going to guide it out the hole on top i have heard that it actually flowers how do i go about getting the future plants from the stalk

 

Snyper... where them pictures?

 

here you go tell me the good news:bigsmile:

 

My plant also made these hard stems and had a little 4 leaf flower looking thing on it, I thought it was a small plant and turned the amazon on its side so i could get this stem slightly under the gravel. But its been weaks and still no roots????? What could this be?

 

leave it upward to grow out the water, mine has done the same thing and i now have about 5 plantlets with loads of roots. im still waiting for the flower to appear it takes awhile though mine have taken about 2 months too get where they are now.

 

Windfire - from what i have seen in my tanks the there wont be flowers if the plantlets form. i guess the motherplant rather puts the energy into plantlets than flowers

 

aaaa man and i was really looking forward to the flowers. do you think i should start removing the plantlets now? maybe it'll still flower if i do that?

 

I heard somewhere that you can take a feather and tickle it to induce pollenation to open the flower