Top Fin Bulb Plants- Anyone try to grow?

[siniardem]

Anyone try to grow these Top Fin bulb plants? I wonder if planting them in a pot instead of in my tank with potting soil is safer?

 

My tank is 48g with eco complete. My pot would be potting soil with gravel top. Now it would be a potting of 3/4 deep so the bulb wouldn't be covered and I don't want them all in this one tank. I have two 10g and one 2.6g that I wanted to spread them out in. I want them to ingest the nitrates, but I don't want them dying and adding to the ammonia. Also in a pot, would you cover with water? What have you done?

[Irene]

I've never purchased the Top Fin bulbs before, but here are the instructions I used to plant my dwarf aquarium lily bulb: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/dwarf-aquarium-lily-bulb-only

I just rested my bulb on top of the substrate (no burying, completely submerged underwater) and waited for it to sprout. Once the shoots started coming out, I slightly pushed the bulb into the Eco-Complete substrate (while making sure not to cover the area where the shoots emerged from) so that the bulb wouldn't roll around as much. As you can see, most of the bulb is still above ground, but now it's grown roots into the substrate and has firmly anchored itself. Hope that helps!

Day 1:

Week 1:

Week 2:

Week 4:

[Ken Burke]

I’ve purchased a few and have mixed results.  About half the time coulf

d get em growing.  When boy howdy the got big.  Pictures are of the plants I got going in the summer tub.  I’ve also used them in my 38 g.  Had to trim them back quite a bit.  I’d follow Irene’s advice for planting.  Good luck.

[Tre]

Can't rav enough about Co-op bulbs.  Those dwarf lillies are fantastic!

[Angelndisguise2277]

I've planted them twice, the first time I put one from the package in and it sprouted right away and grew huge, the other two I didn't plant right away since I still only had a smaller tank and my dog thought they were chew toys 😝...the same dog that eats my fish food too. When I bought more I planted all three at once in a bigger tank with other plants...I actually forgot they were there until I was stripping that tank down (I upgraded again) and while cleaning out the substrate grabbed one and instantly freaked out and threw it thinking it was something creepy living in my tank... once safely armed with longer tweezers I realized what they were. They were black and nothing had ever sprouted.

[siniardem]

Thank you all! This was great advice!