how to reproduce ferns?

[CaitxSith]

I have some kind of fern in my tank. apparently one little fern is growing on the tip of a fern. it's growing bigger and another little one is coming out if that one's rhyzome. will the new plant fall off and make a new plant or do i have to snip it?

 

[fishcatch22]

I have some kind of fern in my tank. apparently one little fern is growing on the tip of a fern. it's growing bigger and another little one is coming out if that one's rhyzome. will the new plant fall off and make a new plant or do i have to snip it?

you can snip it, or it will fall off on its own. your choice.

 

[CaitxSith]

oooo, i really want another one of those ferns...

but what's better to do?

I mean, should i do the way nature does it and let it fall off on it's own?

 

[fishcatch22]

oooo, i really want another one of those ferns...

but what's better to do?

I mean, should i do the way nature does it and let it fall off on it's own?

either way is fine. don't worry about it.

 

[kcooley]

i just pull them off and replant them up to the rhizome. leave that sticking above the substrate

 

[webcricket]

Wait until the plantlet on the leaf is 1.5" to 2" long, and then just pull it off the leaf (don't cut the leaf unless the leaf is dead) - it should have its own roots developed at that point.

 

[CaitxSith]

i can already see its roots... they're like, 5cm long!


err "pull" out? ooo i'm afraid that i'll pull out the leaf, not the rhyzome...

 

[webcricket]

They are removed quite easily, just gently pull near the base of the plantlet or rub your thumb and forefinger across the mother leaf to brush the plantlet loose.

 

[CaitxSith]

ooo... too bad it's only like, 1.5 cm now...