Trying something new - propagation

I have played a bit with emmersed propagation in the past, but that did not really work for me - now I am trying something new and different vs what I did in the past.

Got these food containers that are used for what looks to be hotdogs. In the past I have tried some planting with bonsai soil and that worked ok. I did wonder if I really do need the soil?

While setting up 3 tanks - cleaned them from winter stock. I made some space next to them for these containers.

The idea is that you use the containers upside down, that way any water that evaporates will drop back into the container and not run off the containers side.

I would add 1 cup of water + 1 ml of my fertz solutions - 10g in 500ml water - so that is very diluted.



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Then add whatever I want to grow semi emmersed or as a carpet - well that is the plan. No clue how well this would work.

In this case some moss and montecarlo-3

Later Ferdie

 

looks interesting i hope it works i have never had any luck with any of my emmersed projects so i hope you are going to keep us updated with the progress ?

 

Any update of this?

 

eish let me go look

 

So inside seems like things are going slowly ...





but the surprise growth is in the outside growth tub - added some potting soil since the evaporation get a bit much for just water, even if it condensates back into the tub.



so thinking I need to move them all outside.

Later Ferdie

 

Needed the space under the LEDs so moved the tub outside under the newly draped 50% shade cloth.



they are stuck between the two tanks .. maybe sunshine kicks it up a gear ?

Later Ferdie

 

hi
its hard to tell just how much growth you had over the first month con you tell us

 

Yeah - you had to be here ;-)

The containers work well, keeps all moisture in even during the hottest day - as for growth having substrate like potting soil seems to be a must - so scratch the other idea of no soil.



vs the growth with no soil



I grabbed some 250 micron plastic .. will probably not last in the sun but lets see.

the 405 shade-cloth did really not help that much ...

on the flip side might be blocking all that rays I actually need.

BTW moss did not make the attempt.


Later Ferdie

 

very informative. nice work

 

As clever as the idea of the containers are - one problem ... rain, turns out that the design is not only good at keeping water in but allowing rain in also.



So plants all took a serious knock.

But I have the opportunity to rescue some crypts and moss - so needed another place to grow them under more controlled conditions. Added a 2ft LED light under the one table - yes I am running out of counter space.



Hoping this will give me better results.



Lets see how things go.

Later Ferdie