Is my hornwort dying??

[shaun]

Hi, so I pulled out some Hornwort from a local lake recently and bunched it up the best i could for my pond. However recently I have seen a lot of decomposing needles on the bottom and some of the heads appear to be going brown and soft.

Is this normal? or should i pull the lot of it out?

Shaun

 

[taherrmann4]

Shaun I pulled some from a lake last year, some of it died after I put it in the pond but most of it survived. How do you have it planted? I just put lead weights around mine and sunk them to the bottom.

 

[shaun]

yes i did the same, most of it is ok, but some is just going brown at the ends and snapping off

 

[Steve knight]

that seems typical. all my underwater plants seem to make a mess. plus the plants need to adapt to the new water.

 

[HARO]

Shaun, you say you "bundled some up" for the pond. Any time you tie strands of this plant togrther (rubber bands or whatever), the plants will rot at the point of contact. Hornwort has no roots; it simply drifts with the current and wedges under stones, filters, or whatever. John