Found a few local plants for aquariums at my local Lincoln dealer lol

[artandsoul]

Ludwigia repens, hairgrass "eleocharis palustris" and ludwigia glandulosa all found locally growing emersed beside water and all growing submerged in water. Nice freebys if they survive the transition theres 20,000 stems in this tiny little pond. all clean no bugs put in tank with no fish to be safe will peroxide dip it before moving into other tank. 1 bunch l repens last pic I picked 8 days ago grown 2" and top turning more red with no melt at all. Well see how it goes. All found beside my local Lincoln dealer parking lot lol.
I've got local emersed plants before I know where theres a storm of lemon bacopa and anacharis is. Seems it always melted badly to mush. These plants are growing emersed for a week then submersed for days when water levels go up. Maybe they are more hardy being grown above and below water over and over? They may all melt to turds in weeks lol.

 

[BenB]

Do they give you a free oil change with every bunch?

 

[Wet Elbows]

Alright alright alright.
I've never collected plants from my Lincoln dealership. It'd be a lot cooler if I did.

 

[HardeeParty]

 

[artandsoul]

got some hair grass yesterday about 14x15 size mats, its in sandy dirt on edge of pond. pulled clumps out of 1 mat so far and planted in small 12x16 Tupperware with light and ferts. 1st piece I found still growing like weeds no melt period! There's about a 3' by 40' area of it. My local Lincoln dealer has some that's way cleaner to but they had some festival or some crap going on so I tried my 2nd pond. its not as clean as the 1st had all kinds of mulm and muck in dirt but it cleaned up pretty good, probably loose about 1/3 of a mat after cleaning but still worth the reward of free plants, got the Tupperware more loaded than the pic.

 

[artandsoul]

found some micranthemum umbrosum, or Giant baby tears today, tons of the stuff got about 12 bunches planted in tupperwares today well see if it makes it

 

[BenB]

found some micranthemum umbrosum, or Giant baby tears today, tons of the stuff got about 12 bunches planted in tupperwares today well see if it makes it

M umbrosum was really popular years ago. It's a nice plant with a medium size leaf. I hate that you don't see it more these days.

 

[HardeeParty]

+8 points for Ludwigia arcuata.

 

[BenB]

+8 points for Ludwigia arcuata.

Amano used this plant 25 years ago in scapes, so I just assumed it was native to Asia or something. I never really looked. After some investigating, I was happy and surprised it and so many other Ludwigias were native here

 

[artandsoul]

+8 points for Ludwigia arcuata.

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Your in Florida theres 5g buckets of plants everywhere down there for sure.

 

[artandsoul]

More free plants found a pond full of myriophyllum aquaticum parrots feather. Super clean stuff and nice fat stems. I only take what's above the water so no bad algae or pond snails. Looks great what I got is about a 12"x12' square from this pond, there's 300k stems in there easily. Was driving out in boonies saw it said holy $#!t score lol

All the other freebys still growing already sold most of it off for cheap, that baby tears is booming over foot tall gonna try and use it as a foreground carpet laying down well see.

 

[artandsoul]

Thinking next year of doing a local plants found tank I can get so much for free but there's tons of plants still to be found for sure. Winter coming soon so I gotta stock up like a squirrel lol. Got tupperwares of plants growing in floor for months and this parrot feather got me loaded but I have more tupperwares. Hard to pass up free plants and there selling well locally its time for ebay and Etsy, Hell I need to do dustins fishtanks in my yard next year I could make bank.

 

[Koan]

Lincoln Dealer Biotope

 

[artandsoul]

This parrot feather looks like a plastic plant.Wish it would stay this color but Im sure it wont, it really pops against the greens