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Lilaeopsis Brasiliensis

BarryH

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I'm looking to buy Lilaeopsis Brasiliensis, but the more I look the more confused I become (it's not very difficult).

I've now found the plant in pots, culture and on mesh. Could someone very kindly tell me what the differences are in the three systems please? Is one better than the other? I'll be buying online so the plants will need to come through the post.
 
No difference although the tissue cultured ones will become easier to get started because all you'll have to do is to give the jelly a quick rinse and you're ready to go. The pot ones may have their roots wrapped around rock wool and breaking them apart may be tedious.

Personally, I wouldn't care about the mesh ones because I prefer to spread mine out evenly since their main purpose is as a carpeting plant in the foreground although they're nice as mid and even background fillers in smaller tanks.
 
As pr. above......and you will (usually) get very much more plant material from the tissu cultured ones 😉 .
Lill. brass. likes to be planted relatively deep, by the way. At least deeper, than most people think.
 
Thanks for the help, really appreciated.

Never having seen the plants on mesh before, can I ask how they would be planted, do you just lay the mesh on the substrate, can the mesh
be cut into smaller pieces?
 
In my honest opinion........it's really not worth the effort, to buy Lill. brass. on a mesh.
You would have to bury the mesh, to get root-structure into the soil/gravel.....and to hide the unsightly looking mesh itself. Parting the mesh will be problematic.
Planting small tufts of Lill.brass. inro substrate/soil is really not difficult (use tweezers, if you have) and a pot goes a long way - a tissue-culture cup even longer.....
 
Can I ask a bit more about the tissue cultured plants?

I've seen the 1-2-Grow pots online and wondered how long they keep in the tubs they come in and does that time get less once the tub has been opened. I've looked online at the Tropica site but it seems to be more about planting than actually telling you about storage.
 
I have it growing for 2 years now as emersed and submersed plant with it's roots only in the water.. It grows very agressively and makes very long runners.. It's a very easy undemanding plant, goes very easy through transition and it doesn't change much in growform from emersed to submersed.. Submersed older plants probably have the tendensy to grow longer leaves due to an other force of gravity. Emersed it stays rather short.

What Mick says about it likes to be planted deep into the substrate, is likely pointed to it's way of growing.. If planted to shallow the runners will emerse from the substrate and coil and twine into other plants. Once it is going, it can pop up rather far away from where it initialy is planted.

If you like this plant and like a bargin.. Than wait a few more weeks and visit a pond shop instead.. It is a very popular marginal outdoor pond plant offered early spring/summer periode. I see it beeing sold in the pond shops very cheap for less than half the price and you get 5 times as much, but cultivated emersed on dirted pots.. Next to other Lilaeopsis sp.
 
I beg to be corrected if I'm wrong but based on my own experience and what I've read from other growers of this plant, it doesn't like too much light. I had some in a wabi kusa form. Wrapped in the ball was Amazonia aquasoil and the tank was dosed on the high side of EI because of the strong light and high CO2 bubble rate. Ball was placed about 6" from the lights and while it did bubble oxygen happily everyday, the leaves were thin and sickly looking. Then I moved it to substrate level, in a corner away from strong light, and the leaves started growing greener and thicker.

Now it's in another tank with weak lighting and no fertilization but it's looking even better after just 1 week.
 
Progen said:
it doesn't like too much light.
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Hard to say if it is the light only.. Growing plants always is a combination of factors playing a role.. Even combinations in fert regime can cause a plant to grow differently under same light conditions. Generaly described as aquariumplant and forground low growing dense carpet 4 to 7 cm, Lilaeopsis brasiliensis should be grown in the high light.. Where this high light region excactly is remeans trail and error at a few watts p/gallon. I don't know and can't know what it means when somebody sais high light.. 🙂 Emersed i do not grow it that large, but what i have on the window sil potted on soil is larger than what grow on top of the tank in the water column only.

As said i have it growing all over the tank, from the start 2 years ago, emersed and submersed, it pops up everywhere.. It did, grow down from the emersed runners into the substrate and i keep finding this plant poping up at unexpected places at the other side of the tank.
 
Thanks for the replies, but what I was mainly asking was how long the 1-2-Grow tissue culture plants keep in the small, clear tubs they come in and does that time get less once the tub has been opened?
 
I got the tropcia 1-2 pots they was great to use. No gel to wash off, just in water. Took really well in my DSM.
As to how long they keep in the tubs, dunno as had them planted same day they arrived.

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