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Hi Fellow Tankmates,
Would this work? I've been thinking about reusing those cage baskets the Co-op sends their plants in. The slots are great for giving a plant's roots freedom to grow as they please, but are way too wide to keep its nutrients contained, so I was thinking I'd proceed like so:
1. Take a cage basket/pot.
2. Line with a mini coffee filter (unbleached!) like these, cutting a few tiny holes so roots will have an easier time escaping, while keeping the nutrients inside to give the plants a jumpstart.
3. Fill the filter with a soil like eco-complete, some laterite, then top off with whatever gravel the plant is going into.
Thoughts?
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Apparently kale is the calcium king of the veggies, so a leaf or two of that a week might work well if you want to go the organic route.
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On 2/8/2022 at 12:54 PM, Patrick_G said:
Yup, if they’re using the standard horticultural system those numbers represent percentages.
So the way I'm reading that is these tabs contain 2.59% N, 1.59% P, and 9.98% K, while the rest is comprised of the trace elements/materials that are also listed? Seems like a high percentage of Potassium, but then I guess that means I don't have to go out and get a dedicated liquid Potassium fertilizer...
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Hello, Fellow Tankmates,
So, I noticed on the Root Tab bottle a set of three numbers following NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium). The numbers are 2.49; 1.59; and 9.98, but there are no units assigned to them. Are they percentages? Milligrams? Inquiring minds want to know!
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On 1/25/2022 at 6:22 PM, Minanora said:
Awesome. Funny fact, I just bought a potted S. Repens from co-op yesterday. 🤣
Plan on adding any photos of this adventure of yours? 🙂
When my tank is looking at little more presentable, probably. There's a fair amount of green spot algae on the front, which I don't want to just scrape off, as I've plans to raise a couple juvenile Panda Garras in there, and I want them to have as much biofilm to munch on as possible.
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Thanks for all your input, fellow tankmates! I ended up keeping the repens in the cup a little longer, then spread out the 3 individual plants (technically 4, there's a little daughter plant growing from the largest of them) when I was re-arranging the decor in the tank. Added some Seachem Phosphorus (this tank has plenty o' Nitrogen), and there's already a little bit of new growth!
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So, a few weeks ago, I made my first Co-op purchase in the form of an S. repens, a Water Sprite, and a Water Wisteria. Those latter two were purchased as potential floating plants which, so far, has been working with the Sprite, but the Wisteria melted completely away in about a week (which the Co-op was awesome in refunding me for my loss). Meanwhile, the repens I bought because I liked the idea of it is a very unique carpeting plant for my 10-gallon (I'm imagining a school of Corydoras or Sidthimunki Loaches cruising among the leaves - a very lower canopy, if you will). Anyway, the specimen I got is looking so nice in its little plastic cup it came in, I'm worried that my historically black thumb will rear its ugly head and kill the plant if I do anything to change its current setting (and consider getting a few more for the carpeting project).
Also, regarding those black cups and rockwool - is the prospect of becoming rootbound a valid concern? I've seen that the Co-op sells a decor piece that will fit one of these cups - they have an entire youtube video about them), But wouldn't such a decoration make being rootbound even more of a problem? Or will most plants' roots push through the rockwool and spread out on their own?
Brown (Unbleached) Paper K-Cup Filters for Planting in Plastic Pots?
in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
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I hadn't thought about what happens when the paper eventually breaks apart... After a quick google search, it looks like burlap will also break down, so I got a couple mesh media bags like @Guppysnail mentioned. Gonna poke some holes in that for roots to escape, see how that does.