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I saw "grow your own" Apon bulbs at Petco. How hard are they to sprout and will they do well in my tank? How many should I plant?

My lighting is 2.6 WPG.

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Apon bulbs are pretty easy to grow, but will probably outgrow a 5 gallon tank. They should do fine in your lighting though.

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If they get too big, will they be ok to prune? My footprint is small but the height is good. Would I be better off with different plants?


TIA

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It is possible to prune them, but it's not the best.

The plant will, however, make your tank look tiny because the plant is so big. In small tanks it is best to stick to plants with small leaves only, because the small leaf size makes the tank look more spacious.

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I have these and it took abotu a week to really see a sprout. I have not had trouble with them getting to big yet. It is not difficult to prune them. If one starts to sprout too high grab the base of the stem then pull jsut hard enough for it to come off. It is very easy to do. I hav ehad mine for about 2 months I guess and I have only had one stem reach the top of my tank. My tank is a 24 inch tall tank though. I am getting ready to put some in my 10 gallon tank soon though. I wasn't sure if I would like them at first. I LOVE them! They are one of my favorite plants now!


Christina

My aponos are taking over my 29 gal

They get WAY too big for a 5 gal, IME... I tried to do one in a 2.5 gal an it took up the entire tank...

I wouldn't put aponos in anything smaller than a 20... if in anything smaller than a 55, I'd just do them in a big forest on one side of the tank (like how my 29 is). I've got like 8 aponos in there now, I think... about 1/3 of the tank is an apono forest, and it's expanding. I've probably got about 30 leaves floating at the surface... that's what I haven't trimmed off. I do pull any blossoms right away, tho. I'll take a pic of it an' upload it sometime

Anyway, I wouldn't do aponos in a 5 gal. Remember, you've been warned

Oddly enough when I grew those apono bulbs some got huge and grew beyond the height of my 55g but some didn't get more than a few inches. The tall ones I used about the same as poisonwaffle shoving them all in one corner to make a forest. The short sort of flat ones I put in my 5g and 20g. I got about 3 short ones out of 4 packs of apono bulbs.