Starting Point The Rock

Ys this is realy going to rock whit such a massive lawn of UG, this will look absolutely stunning.. Can't wait to see this come together..
UG is indeed a difficult bugger, but once it feel at home there's no stopping it. It's a carnivor, so it needs micro organism to feed, that's what has to be there in abbundancy to make ug happy and explode. I guess thats why it's such a hard plant to grow if these microbes are yet not enough there to feed it. That Rhizo stuff helps to jumpstart that microbial development..

Here it started a little emersed on the wood at the watersurface and now it's finding it's way down, unstopable.

 

That's a little secret the nurseries still do not reveal, tropica employees are not allowed to talk about the production process and what they put in the invitro gel. Other nursuries seem to only cut it off from big patches they grow somewhere, don't provide it invitro nor on rockwool, just a clean cut of patch.

Since it's a carnivorious plant it feeds on micro organisms. So if you have a well established tank matured enough regarding this bio cycle UG will feed itself with the available micro organism in the water or substrate. If you look at it's grow form it developes root strains whit little bladers, these bladers are obviously it's traps whit what it catches and stores the micro organism. Ive grown it like this in abbundancy on emersed hardware. All UG i previously did put in the substrate without these roots and bladers died off. But with all UG with an already established root and blader development i did put in the substrate and just keeps going. I guess since there is no real flow in the substrate the plant has to do with less food passing by and will take long time to develope an nice blader where the food is stored. When it has it's roots and bladers freely in the flow there is more fresh food passing by. Once it has nicely filled bladers and a good storae of foodsupply it's do fine in the substrate.

Ho do you feed it, actualy i think you don't, the bioload from the tank it self does.. Like how do you feed a venus fly trap or a drosera in you terra scape?? Don't give a rich nitrogen fert it's burn the crap out of it.. It's only need a few micro's and let it provide itself with nitrogen what it makes frow a caught insect..

This is in the substrate now..Next to the hair grass..

 

To answer this for UG we probably would need a microscope to see what's in these bladers.

 

Darn and i was hoping Honey..

 

Nice Read Jason.. Tanks.. I'm already trying to get a U. calycifida going together with 2 different Drosera Pygmea sp. in my latest swampy terrascape. But it's still hard to keep it green. And than the U.Calycifida is the easiest..

 

Roy,
What was that in the second picture down growing on the socks? Boy, the HC sure took off in the lower pictures. Nice work!