Cryptocoryne Blog

Late last year I received a plant from Ron Finlayson, a fellow Crypt enthusiast. This plant had been circulating amongst the hobbyist circle as the ‘melt proof Cryptocoryne affinis’. There are records of this plant handed down from one person to another from the early 1900′s! I was thrilled to receive this plant. However, one look at it, I was almost certain this was not Cryptocoryne affinis. I put it into my emersed setup and today it sent up a nice spathe. As I had suspected, it turned out to be Cryptocoryne wendtii. Nice specimen though – and there are 5-6 more spathes on the way – prolific!

A few months ago, I’ve mentioned that Florida Aquatic Nurseries had started producing a new varigated cultivar of Cryptocoryne wendtii, which they had named ‘Florida Sunset’. Though still being produced in limited quantities, its finally becoming available at local stores. I picked one up yesterday. The leaves are highly varigated, brown, green, cream and pink colors. Here’s a close up of one of the leaves.

Bonus – it already had a spathe one it.

It looks nice! Wonder how it’ll look submersed.

Last year when GWAPA visited Florida Aquatic Nurseries, we spotted a new crypt varient in their ‘R&D’ section. It peaked our interest back then and several of us were talking about it on the drive back home. Today I’ve been informed that this will be a new variety that FAN will be introducing to the market at the upcoming AGA Convention.

New hotness!

I hope that, like ‘Green Gecko’, this variety holds it color submersed. I’ll definitly be trying to aquire some of this at the convention.

Started my emersed culture on 5/3/07
Cryptocoryne wendtii ‘Green Gecko’ was one of the first ones I planted. It didn’t skip a beat
going from submersed to emersed – kept growing nicely.
Here is the first flower…almost exactly 2 months later.

The 2nd picture shows two additional flowers on their way…