Glad that i've learned about your channel, been thinking how i can propagate the most sought-after aquatic plants here in my country. Will watch all your contents to get more of this interesting method. Best Regards from Philippines.
Just found your channel. Awesome content. I Just got into planted aquariums. I already have propagation racks from growing garden plants, definitely gonna try some Java fern and moss. Keep up the good work.
Hi Will, it looks very healty! also those anubias seeds. Still love your video's with all information about aquariumplants 👍👍 Please keep making this video's🙏 Love from the netherlands ✌
I would love to. I’ll likely need to grow that species in a separate system as it has demands a bit different than my current species. Something I hope to get setup one day soon but that will be down the road a ways I suspect👍
I just found your channel and I love the content so far. I’m looking to start a small business selling aquarium plants in the spring. What would be the best way to go about a smaller scale setup
Good question. In the hydro tubs I spray more and the water slowly rises. But I actually don’t typically remove any water. Once all the plants grow in I harvest them, at that point the hydroton is mostly submerged. Then I drain the tub and restart. With soil I spray veryyy lightly. Just like one or two passes over the plants. And I’ve been dialing back how often I spray. Maybe a few times a week now. But I do open the tubs just about every day. This allows humidity to escape. Basically I try to balance spray with humidity loss such that the soil moisture content remains pretty consistent. This way I don’t have to remove water. 👌🏼
Awesome video Sir. What soil substrates you use? Can you share picture or link of the soil and clay pebbles? Do you use clay pebbles for rhizome and soil for roots or stem plants? Sir do you have any experiences using E I dosing method? Can it work for emersed instead of hydroponics fertilizers? Sir for the duckweed maybe you can try adding some topsoil in the tank. I keep Azolla and it multiply extremely well...
Hello! I use miracle grow potting soil for my soil based tubs. Pebbles are hydroton. Good eye. Stem plants seem to appreciate soil. With rhizome plants i prefer pebbles because it is less messy to harvest. They also grow well in soil though, just messy. I have used EI for aquariums. For emersed growth you could probably use that same idea but you would probably want to boost your dosing. Because you don’t have fish in emersed tubs you can get away with more nutrients and boost growth that way. I may not have mentioned it but for duckweed I am using hydroponic nutrients in the water. I bet soil would work though! Go to the description in this video for links to the soil and pebbles: ua-cam.com/video/g9NzU8jhIFc/v-deo.html
wold you be kind to talk in a bit more detail about fertilsers tipes used ,NPK concentrations,dilution,u use tap water?i only spray from my shrimp aquarium,i just started aomw bucephalandra and java ferns in clay pebles,i realy wold ned some help not to melt them,with not to much or too much fertilizing,thank you
I usually just follow the fertilizer recommendations. For spray you will want to follow the foliar feed recommendation for the substrate solution I follow the standard recommendations or even a bit more dilute. Aquatic plants don't need much ferts. Ive used different NPK concentrations with largely the same results but right now I am using a 10-5-14.
Thanks for stopping by the site! I was away on vacation so I had to mark everything as sold out temporarily. Most plants are back in stock now nwaquahobby.com !
Tub height really depends on species. For stem plants the tubs in this video are actually just about perfect. For most rhizome plants you could go lower for sure. I chose these tubs because they were readily available and economical. Now I am growing mainly stems in them, so it worked out perfect. 👌
Very nice. I tried to propagate anubias using your method (plastic container), but it didn't grow at all and then rotted or get squashy. Have you Tips for me?
@@AquariumPlantLab A normal 6 Watt fluorescent tube, Hydroton and a fertilizer for plants/flowers with NPK 4-1-2 which i have tripled to get 12-3-6 (6 tsp/gallon), couldn't get a 9-3-6. I sprayed once a day. The plant that i used come out of a tank.
@@AquariumPlantLab Last the light were on 8 hours a day and 4 at the beginning, I changed that because the light is not very bright. I just foliar feeding, later i added some water at the bottom. It was only one plant and i think it was to much fertilizer and maybe not enought light. I can send you a picture of the setup.
You can message me on my Instagram if you have one, I could take a look. Here are some suggestions, you might already be doing these. But make sure you have a lid to trap in humidity, make sure your foliar spray isn’t too strong. should be about 1/4 strength recommendation on bottle. Add nutrient water at recommended concentration at the bottom of the substrate. If those all fail you might need to get some dedicated hydroponic fertilizer. 👍
Good question! I should do a video on this soon. I have had a few bouts of mold. Generally only in tubs that have mostly run through their course and the plants have been harvested several times. Usually at that point I need to change out the soil anyway. I do use diluted h2o2 spray to treat spots of mold. Works great! I usually go about 50/50 h2o2 to water maybe a bit weaker than that.
Ya I could see that being an issue with dry start. I tend to have lots of springtails in my tubs which probably helps prevent mold outbreaks in the beginning. I wonder if people could use springtails 🤔
Both great questions. Pretty much all of the propagation I do is through asexual reproduction or vegetative reproduction. This is done by dividing plants. There is no sharing of genetics. So in essence all plants are genetic clones of each other. When I say I sell the best what I mean is I pick the plants that are the oldest and most grown in. Most of the plants I grow end up looking pretty much the same when given enough time. The limiting factor is time. 🌱
Wow, this is coming along brilliantly! Awesome work, dude.
Thank you!!! I couldn’t be more excited 😆 thanks for watching and for the comment 👍
Great video Will, amazing to see how well the farm is doing. Offered some inspiration in the future for potentially culturing my own plants 🌿
Hey James! Good to hear from you! The farm is coming along nicely :) and I am glad you are thinking of growing some plants 🌱
Glad that i've learned about your channel, been thinking how i can propagate the most sought-after aquatic plants here in my country. Will watch all your contents to get more of this interesting method. Best Regards from Philippines.
I would recommend a soil based setup! They are the easiest and lowest maintenance option in my opinion :) thanks for your support!
Just found your channel. Awesome content. I Just got into planted aquariums. I already have propagation racks from growing garden plants, definitely gonna try some Java fern and moss. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for watching and for the comment! Good luck growing 😁
ive been into planted setups for a week now. i already have over 100 species of plants
Hi Will, it looks very healty! also those anubias seeds. Still love your video's with all information about aquariumplants 👍👍
Please keep making this video's🙏
Love from the netherlands ✌
Thanks for watching and for commenting!!! 😁
@@AquariumPlantLab as always! Making good content u will have a reaction from me u deserved it!✌✌
Please try Pogostemon erectus.. Thanks!
Cheers congrates on your business online
Thank you! It’s been a lot of work but I love it and can’t wait to see where it ends up going :)
@@AquariumPlantLab Cool its super good u can do what you like , just do it friend cause we just live once :D Awesome
😁🤞🌱
So cool
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching 😉
great vid
how much time does it take for the fern leaves to produce new spores
loòk so great , thank you , hope u can emersed anubias pinto or Panda , may be Bucepphalandra
I would like to grow all of those species one day!!
Do you plan on adding dwarf hairgrass on your website?
I would love to. I’ll likely need to grow that species in a separate system as it has demands a bit different than my current species. Something I hope to get setup one day soon but that will be down the road a ways I suspect👍
I just found your channel and I love the content so far. I’m looking to start a small business selling aquarium plants in the spring. What would be the best way to go about a smaller scale setup
Bro! Awesome!
Thanks for watching :)
Go big!
Next expansion will bring an additional ~1700 plant capacity 😳
Love the Video! were can you get the anubias seeds from?
Nowhere that I am aware of. I manually pollinated some Anubias flowers and collected the seed myself :)
Great videos!!!
How often do you remove the excess fertilizer water that builds up in the aquaponic style tubs as well as the dirted tubs?
Good question. In the hydro tubs I spray more and the water slowly rises. But I actually don’t typically remove any water. Once all the plants grow in I harvest them, at that point the hydroton is mostly submerged. Then I drain the tub and restart.
With soil I spray veryyy lightly. Just like one or two passes over the plants. And I’ve been dialing back how often I spray. Maybe a few times a week now. But I do open the tubs just about every day. This allows humidity to escape. Basically I try to balance spray with humidity loss such that the soil moisture content remains pretty consistent. This way I don’t have to remove water. 👌🏼
Awesome video Sir.
What soil substrates you use?
Can you share picture or link of the soil and clay pebbles?
Do you use clay pebbles for rhizome and soil for roots or stem plants?
Sir do you have any experiences using E I dosing method? Can it work for emersed instead of hydroponics fertilizers?
Sir for the duckweed maybe you can try adding some topsoil in the tank. I keep Azolla and it multiply extremely well...
Hello! I use miracle grow potting soil for my soil based tubs. Pebbles are hydroton.
Good eye. Stem plants seem to appreciate soil. With rhizome plants i prefer pebbles because it is less messy to harvest. They also grow well in soil though, just messy.
I have used EI for aquariums. For emersed growth you could probably use that same idea but you would probably want to boost your dosing. Because you don’t have fish in emersed tubs you can get away with more nutrients and boost growth that way.
I may not have mentioned it but for duckweed I am using hydroponic nutrients in the water. I bet soil would work though!
Go to the description in this video for links to the soil and pebbles: ua-cam.com/video/g9NzU8jhIFc/v-deo.html
Can you grow all those plants in a cold environment?
Hi love your content! I have one question: would you recommend to propagate the anubias also in plastic tubs or is the aquarium better?
Either work the same 👍. I just grow Anubias in the aquarium because I ran out of space on the rack 😂
Que lamparas utilizas?
Son fullespectrum?
wold you be kind to talk in a bit more detail about fertilsers tipes used ,NPK concentrations,dilution,u use tap water?i only spray from my shrimp aquarium,i just started aomw bucephalandra and java ferns in clay pebles,i realy wold ned some help not to melt them,with not to much or too much fertilizing,thank you
I usually just follow the fertilizer recommendations. For spray you will want to follow the foliar feed recommendation for the substrate solution I follow the standard recommendations or even a bit more dilute. Aquatic plants don't need much ferts. Ive used different NPK concentrations with largely the same results but right now I am using a 10-5-14.
Can the emersed plants be grown in our tank directly?
Yup! Most aquarium plants you find in stores are grown emersed. Same same. Just plant them and leave them alone 🌱
Everything is sold out on the website.
Thanks for stopping by the site! I was away on vacation so I had to mark everything as sold out temporarily. Most plants are back in stock now nwaquahobby.com !
How warm ist the room ? 70°F?
70-80 Typically. Closer to 70 at night closer to 80 during the day. 👍
Do you own any Tropica books?
Hopefully you can answer, but what’s the reason for using such deep tubs? Why not get lower tubs ?
Tub height really depends on species. For stem plants the tubs in this video are actually just about perfect. For most rhizome plants you could go lower for sure. I chose these tubs because they were readily available and economical. Now I am growing mainly stems in them, so it worked out perfect. 👌
@@AquariumPlantLab thanks, I’m going to start my own farm. Is this decent income?
Very nice. I tried to propagate anubias using your method (plastic container), but it didn't grow at all and then rotted or get squashy. Have you Tips for me?
Hmmm could you list your light, fertilizer, and substrate?
@@AquariumPlantLab A normal 6 Watt fluorescent tube, Hydroton and a fertilizer for plants/flowers with NPK 4-1-2 which i have tripled to get 12-3-6 (6 tsp/gallon), couldn't get a 9-3-6. I sprayed once a day. The plant that i used come out of a tank.
How long did you have the light on? Did you have nutrient solution at the bottom of the hydroton as well or were you just foliar feeding?
@@AquariumPlantLab Last the light were on 8 hours a day and 4 at the beginning, I changed that because the light is not very bright. I just foliar feeding, later i added some water at the bottom. It was only one plant and i think it was to much fertilizer and maybe not enought light. I can send you a picture of the setup.
You can message me on my Instagram if you have one, I could take a look.
Here are some suggestions, you might already be doing these. But make sure you have a lid to trap in humidity, make sure your foliar spray isn’t too strong. should be about 1/4 strength recommendation on bottle. Add nutrient water at recommended concentration at the bottom of the substrate. If those all fail you might need to get some dedicated hydroponic fertilizer. 👍
Hi what fertilizer did you give to your plants in ur aquarium
Can I grow it indoor with 29-30°c temperature.. I'm from Malaysia
I would suspect yes. But that is getting pretty warm. I would give it a shot with a small test setup :)
I need help, pls can anyone tell me what soil to use on emerse growing java ferns
I highly recommend miracle grow potting soil!
hello i just wanna ask where do plants get their co2 if the set up is sealed like that
The lid is open often so molds don't form
Do you get any fungus or mold? Do you use h2o2?
Good question! I should do a video on this soon. I have had a few bouts of mold. Generally only in tubs that have mostly run through their course and the plants have been harvested several times. Usually at that point I need to change out the soil anyway. I do use diluted h2o2 spray to treat spots of mold. Works great! I usually go about 50/50 h2o2 to water maybe a bit weaker than that.
Cool. Thanks for the response. I did a dry start once. Had a bit of this problem. That's what I asked.
Ya I could see that being an issue with dry start. I tend to have lots of springtails in my tubs which probably helps prevent mold outbreaks in the beginning. I wonder if people could use springtails 🤔
If you pick out the best of the plants to sell, that would mean you are selectively breeding for the worst traits in the long turn
Do you have a way of keeping a good mother set of plants to pass on good genetics ?
Both great questions. Pretty much all of the propagation I do is through asexual reproduction or vegetative reproduction. This is done by dividing plants. There is no sharing of genetics. So in essence all plants are genetic clones of each other. When I say I sell the best what I mean is I pick the plants that are the oldest and most grown in. Most of the plants I grow end up looking pretty much the same when given enough time. The limiting factor is time. 🌱