Wintering Plants Indoors
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- birdmama51
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» birdmama51 - Floating Plants
Help, I have tired to keep floating plants alive during the winter and only had one work. I've tired an aquarium with a lamp and bubbler and they rotted and died. I've tired just a fish bowl and they died. The only time it ever worked was when I lived in Mobile and put them in old butter bowls in a north facing window. What is the sure fire secret? Do I change the water, ad anything? I have a hard time finding these plants because the fishermen around here have gotten a law passed that you can't buy them. According to the fishermen, they clog up the rivers and lakes. Funny to me that mine die every winter and I've had no luck since I moved to north Alabama.-- posted by birdmama51
» biogardener - temperature
It sounds like you do not have the plants in a place cold enough to their liking. If you have an unheated basement or a garage which is kept cold but not freezing, you should have a good chance at keeping them alive.-- posted by biogardener
» pixie1980 - You may need a light system
Right now I have pennywort, parrots feather, water lettuce and water hyacinth under a light system and East window in the basement (always about 65F) with lots of moisture, they have been down there in simple erns filled with filtered water and a little charcoal (to keep the water sweet) for weeks and are doing fine... these tropical pond plants need a good amount of light, like from a South exposure. Tap water (not from a well) can also cause problems at times.-- posted by pixie1980
» biogardener - Water rule of thumb
The rule for tap water to an aquarium is that it has to have sat in bottles for 3 days prior to being added to an aquarium. I use the same rule when watering indoor and even outdoor plants. Be sure to observe the rule for your water plants.The charcoal or some other effective purification system is necessary, and I took for granted that you have that in the aquarium set-up. If you know anything about fishes, it wouldn't hurt to put a plecostomus in the tank. They are little vacuum cleaners who scrub the algae off the sides of the tank, and they don't care much about the water temperature.
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