Weak stems in my Water Sprite
My water sprite (Ceratopteris thalictroides) fails to produce long stems and breaks up into floating plantlets. I use ferts including CSM + B but I don't know why the water sprite fails to grow properly. I know that Fulton County has soft water and would like to know if addition of Calcium and Magnesium would help. I have not done that bc I have no data to support that idea. Can someone who has strong growth of water sprite help me understand if or whether this problem has a solution?
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I had the exact same issue in my 8gal nano cube. No matter how many times I replanted it, my water sprite would just break up into little floating plantlets. I then set up a 13gal long tank with approximately the same water parameters and substrate etc and transferred some of the plantlets to it and planted them and they took off. I now have a good number of large healthy rooted water sprite plants in that tank while it still refuses to grow in the 8gal. The only difference I can think of is that the 13gal is shallower so more light reaches the substrate and maybe that's what the plantlets needed to grow into full plants.