Has anyone ever flowered anubias sp. 'Gasser'?

chris_todd · Post by **chris_todd** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:34 pm

I see what I believe may be a flower developing on one of the Anubias sp. 'Gasser' that I have in my emersed setup. Has anyone in the club ever flowered this before? I know you can effectively identify (or at least narrow down) the species of crypts based on their spathes... is there anything we can learn from this flower that might help us deduce which species Gasser hybridized? If so, what do I need to do to preserve or otherwise examine the flower, if it is a flower and it opens?

Here are two pics (shot using the mad photo skills I learned from Jason Baliban at Aquafest!

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ddavila06 · Post by **ddavila06** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:00 am

that looks like a very healthy anubia Chris, i just flowered one under water and looked awesome for like the past week! i do not have/nor want to mention an emersed set up or else you might see me in the news "body found laying in a stream near condominium complex in annandale" haaaaa, congrats!!

londonloco · Post by **londonloco** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:08 am

Chris, can you post a pic of the set up? I'd really like to see it.

chris_todd · Post by **chris_todd** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:27 am

Sure, but probably not until later tonight. Since it's a bit off-topic for this thread, I'll put a new post in the appropriate forum.

londonloco · Post by **londonloco** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:47 am

Thanks!

DelawareJim · Post by **DelawareJim** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:19 pm

Great!

I guess we need to start calling you "Captain Anubias" now!!!

Cheers.
Jim

chris_todd · Post by **chris_todd** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:40 pm

DelawareJim wrote:Great!

I guess we need to start calling you "Captain Anubias" now!!!

Cheers.
Jim

LOL. It's Sean's fault, I think - at the last meeting, he said "add Flourish Iron and Anubias throws up a new leaf the next day". So I started dosing Flourish and Flourish Iron more frequently to the emersed setup. Turns out that Sean guy knows some stuff.

kerokero · Post by **kerokero** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:19 pm

Yeah well, last time I listened to Sean, he told me to cut the leaves off some java fern and float the leaves [rhizome went into a terrarium] to get babies. One million babies later...

ddavila06 · Post by **ddavila06** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:31 pm

kerokero wrote:Yeah well, last time I listened to Sean, he told me to cut the leaves off some java fern and float the leaves [rhizome went into a terrarium] to get babies. One million babies later...

lol

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:18 pm

I flowered it submersed constantly. I'm not sure I ever took a photo though.

Has anyone ever flowered anubias sp. 'Gasser'?

Has anyone ever flowered anubias sp. 'Gasser'?

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