Amazon sword questions

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AtomBat

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First let me start by saying that Ive had a huge female amazon sword in my tank who has 5 shouts sprouting tons of smaller plants. Weeks ago, i plucked the babies that were growing because they were growing roots about 2-3" long. Planted them inside my tank and they are growing like wildfire. Will any of the ones Ive planted turn into females and give me more amazon sword?

Also now that my main plant is growing more again, over the weeks I have noticed the babies growing on it are getting fatter with more and more leaves but only a few have 1 or 2 roots growing out of them and the roots are not long at all. I have one that acutally looks like it may be 3 or 4 growing in the same spot but don't have any roots. Would it be alright to pluck these and see if they will take to the sand and grow roots, or should I continue to wait and see if they grow roots before?
 
There plants and really dont have a sex. They all will do the same just time is needed.

As with the little ones you could plant them just use the stem there growing off as an achor and they will drop roots sooner or later.
 
Do not separate the daughter plants from the mother plant until they have roots. These do not have a gender, as stated, they will all send off runners.
 
WyldFya;2921397; said:
Do not separate the daughter plants from the mother plant until they have roots. These do not have a gender, as stated, they will all send off runners.

do you have any examples of pictures of this? I think my plants are sending off these things. thanks man:)
 
monstermansj;2951034; said:
do you have any examples of pictures of this? I think my plants are sending off these things. thanks man:)

I don't have alot of upclose pictures of my swords but here is the best shot i got of a runner with a huge daughter plant( or 4 small ones), hopefully you can see but in this picture it hasn't grown its roots. So it is still not ready to be planted.

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