The last time I kept Cryptocoryne ciliata, the mother plant collapsed right when it flowered. I had to surgically open the spathe up to take a picture. The plant didn’t make it, but recently I picked up another Cryptocoryne ciliata and dropped it into my emersed setup. Last week, it started showing signs of sending up a spathe and today – it opened up. The spathe is pretty big – but then again, so is Cryptocoryne cilata. This spathe is about 8 inches tall from kettle to tip. The limb itself is almost 2 inches long. Its one of the most beautiful crypt spathes in my opinion. Since the geographic range of this crypt is vast (from India to Papua New Guinea) there are a lot of other beautiful color variants of this plant. I hope to collect more color variants of this plant in the future.
Congratulation, that is a really wonderful spathe. And Finally you got it flowered with not problems.
Yep – I was worried it would crash again, but I guess this time around there was enough fertilizer for it to successfully flower.