Can't grow water hyacinths!

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My plants love my creek too! they are looking great tmann
 

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They like it hot. Try water lettuce.

Don't know for sure if you are talking to me DrDave but I have water lettuce, and no hyacinth. Are you saying that water lettuce don't mind the cool? If so then I guess they need either fertilizer or moving water, not sure? Mine are yellow on the outer leaves and not real big but greenish in the middle.

Tmann, your plants look beautiful!
 

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my hyacinths did not really start growing great until it got warmer jw. the heat hit and they started blooming and turning green.
 

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Guess I need the heat to hit and stay hitting for the water lettuce too. Today is cloudy but trying to burn off. Hoping the water hawthorne will do good here in our cool weather. Haven't received it yet but must be on it's way.
 

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Guess I need the heat to hit and stay hitting for the water lettuce too. Today is cloudy but trying to burn off. Hoping the water hawthorne will do good here in our cool weather. Haven't received it yet but must be on it's way.


Well it is supposed to do the best in cool weather, so it should be fine jw.
 

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Hope so, I hear the bulbs are pretty tiny and fragile so will have to be careful when planting them not to knock them around and wreck their roots if they have any. Not sure what to expect.
 

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Well we will find out when they get here jw....... I am going to put them in some clay alone in a pot where the fish can't get to them.
 

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I don't have that kind of a place but I put a plastic pot on the pond ledge w/ a rock holding it down and then I have this large black plastic shallow pan not as big as an oil pan but big enough to hold one water hawthorne I believe. Put litter in that and don't know if I should put fertilizer in there or not..........what do you think? I may have to put some small rocks on top of the kitty litter to keep the fish from messing w/ it, yes I think I will just go ahead and do that but I don't want to put any right over the little bulb. So the pan just happens to fit right nicely on the top edge of that sunken pot so that the pan will sit a few inches below the water level. That way as it grows I can lower the pan down to the plant ledge eventually.
 

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sounds like a plan jw, fertilizer can burn a new plant, so it would be best not to use any.
 

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Guess I need the heat to hit and stay hitting for the water lettuce too. Today is cloudy but trying to burn off. Hoping the water hawthorne will do good here in our cool weather. Haven't received it yet but must be on it's way.

Just get yourself a heat lamp and maybe you can grow them then. :lamp5:
 

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tmann I can just see her heating her whole yard that way, and five over the pond
 

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Yep addy that's what I was just thinking, fall in and get electrocuted just trying to set them up too. I just need to be happy w/ plants that like it here instead of the tropical stuff. Hey it's noon and here comes the sun now!
 

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It took until julyish for the hyacinths to get their butts in gear and really grow here jw, and we had a hot summer.
 

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