Amazon sword runners: cut them off or let the mother plant keep feeding them?
Prepping the mother swords for the auction box and a couple have long runners with baby plants already putting out roots. Pic below of a jungle tank I run for reference, same plants in the back. Do you snip the runners once the babies have 3 or 4 leaves, or leave them attached until the plant is settled in its new home? Worried the mother looks bare if I cut too early.
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i leave runners on until the babies have a decent root mass, maybe 4 or 5 leaves and roots a few inches long. then snip close to the baby and the mother recovers fast.
agree, and pete if you ship them attached just coil the runner in the bag so it doesn't snap. buyers like seeing the connection anyway.
good tip riverina, coiling it in the bag makes sense. i'll leave the runners attached on the ones that already have roots a few inches long and snip the rest.
late to this but coiling the runner in the bag is smart. i had one snap on a pleco shipment once with plants in the same box and it was a mess of mulm. good luck with the auction pete
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