I got some Java fern plants from prepackaged in a plastic container at a store, I opened it and some of the plant were just leaves separated from their rhizome. Will they grow roots or will they just die and rot?
Java fern regrowing from leaves?
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Whenever leaves break off at the rhizome I just stick them back into the piece of wood the rest of the plant is in. They at least stay alive and possibly sprout new rhizomes just like attached leaves.
I know for certain it can grow back with just a rhizome... I got a java fern eaten to nothingness (Only the rhizome remained) ... and it is now sprouting a few new leaves. (I moved it to my other tank and protected it from predators via divider) AND I only have 0.6 WPG with no ferts/CO2 nothing.
It is amazing, the toughness of these things.
It is amazing, the toughness of these things.
It will grow back but it takes a very long time. I had a single leaf detached from my plants and I tied it on a piece of wood.. it took 2 months to form roots and one more for a single leaf to grow. Maybe its my water?
