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Flora Eerschay wrote:Watercress is one of the plants I really wanted to grow in a tiny setup, because it's small and healthy. But I wasted a lot of seeds before it finally started growing. Now I think it's much easier than I thought... it just needs water, not soil, but not completely still water like in a bowl.
So I used a stretched swab of gauze to put seeds in it, and attached it to the edge of the aquarium with paper clips.
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It uses a 6w LED lamp, and the watercress "bed" was right under it. Some sprouts went under the glass and they were just fine.
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Growing watercress and Pablo, the male guppy. Guppies are omnivorous but they prefer to eat algae, so they don't really bite at the roots.
When the plants got bigger, I moved them to aquarium with baby guppies, in which water level is slightly lower.
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Tiny guppy is 13 days old today!
One plant fell out of the gauze and into some floating plants - moss, duckweed, water fern, and maybe something else.
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It's fine there too, so I think they can just grow like that.
Recently I saw watercress in a regular pot, for sale along with some herbs, but mine just died in soil... so I'm happy that it grows well in the water.
Pu Hoi wrote:Does it have to be moving water or can it be grown in stil water also?
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