Pierre's emersed setup with some success

Ok here goes my explanation of how I got some sort of success with growing emersed aquatic plants.
Firstly the substrate
My mix was a big bag of potting soil any kind from local nursery is good.
One big back of Microbe lift plant substrate. Ore you kan use any clay based gravel.
One bag of commercial bonsai mix from nursery for the hell of it. it was about a 5kg bag
For fertilizers I used some nails pushed into the substrate for added iron.
few pellets of rapped raiser slow release fertilizer. could not get osmocote that would've been better.
lite sprinkle of bone meal for the hell of it.

lights
I made some DIY light fittings and used a combination of cool white and warm white bulbs

Total light about 250w/m2 if I remember correctly now

housing
I used a old standard 1.2 tank with sliding glass lids.

planting containers
I am using 2l ice cream and some margarine tubs.

then I drill lots of small holes in the bottom about 3mm in size.

this will prevent you from over watering the plants. When I put these container's inside the tank I raise them about 50mm from the bottom so that they do not sit directly into any water.


I tried to get the humidity to round 90+ but with no success it only got up to between 80 and 82 so the transition between submerged growth to emersed was more difficult with some of the plants dieing back completely and then some shot up new emersed growth from nowhere after a few weeks.

watering
in the first few weeks I was misting the plants 2 to 3 times a day and now I mist only every couple of days sometimes skipping up to two weeks. I only use regular tap in a spray bottle.

now for some plant pics in this setup using this method
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Now would anybody be so kind to iD what the hell I was growing here. I know some but not all the proper names so please help me out here.

 

I'm impressed with your result. It looks tremendous, but somehow I cannot suppress the feeling that the exporters clip their hedges and sell the offcuts as "water plants".

 

There are two plants I'm not sure if they are aquatic in there but the rest im pretty sure they are.
number 3 the tall plant and the one in the top right in photo 3 as well.

 

Nice man.
How many cfls do you have in the 1.2?
Are they under the glass or ontop of the slides.
Nice setup now grow same rare plants

 

Pierre's emersed setup with some success

Really nice step by step

 

thanks dudes.
herman I have 7 cfl over the tank sitting on top of the glass. 3 times osram duluxstar 23w cool white and 4 times philips genie 14w cool daylight
Total 125w = 231.48 w/m2

I will give the rare plants a go if I had any.
also had some crypts in there and some micro swords but that I removed to use in my last scape I started. yeah yeah again not rare plants I know

 

you could get a atomizer mist maker and set it to go off every few hours,
and it would look amazing as well!

i like what you've done

LOVE NATURE

 

Looks very pro and super healthy.. well done

 

Pierre's emersed setup with some success

Nice setup, and great results!!

All I used in my setup was potting soil and osmocote, and it worked like a bomb!

Now get some new species in there!!

 

thanks dudes. also think I need to try some more species.

 

looks awesome dude, that java fern did you burry it or is it just laying on the surface of the substrate?

 

Thanks dude.
I just lade it on the substrate and it dug itself into the substrate by now.

 

cool thanks just wanna be sure that im doing the right thing haha

 

This is an AWESOME setup! How old is it now?

 

Thanks Firefly it is about 5 months old I think

 

how is this for a emersed grown anubias tiles are 500mm by 500mm

 

Did some cleaning up replanting en propagating in my emersed setup. Need to sort out the back middle but think its much tidier already. Now I got a nice big mess to go clean up
left side of tank

right side of tank