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Hi all,
More questions! I started my pond back at the end of May with a bunch of plants including 2 water hyacinth. Both rosettes bloomed twice (early June I think). At the time they were growing moderately and put out new leaves and at least one new plant each. One started blooming while they were in my main pond and then both bloomed when I soon moved them to my bog (about 5 inches of water in the "deep end"), but other than moving them to the bog side I haven't made any other changes. And they seemed to bloom happily in both the pond and bog.
Since then I've given away at least a dozen rosettes and have about 4 or so still in the bog, but I haven't had a single additional bloom. Now one thought is that as the trees continued to leaf up I'm just getting less sun on my pond (I get sun from about 7:30am to 12:30pm and the bog side might loose it a bit earlier). The other thing is that since the time they bloomed when the pond was less than a month old and there were probably more nutrients in the water the string algae has come is now mostly gone, so I'm wondering if all my plants are just using up to much of the nutrients and I should feed my fish more. The water has a little tint from some oak leaves but is basically crystal clear otherwise. Right now I only fish once every other day or so, but the fish are pretty fat and happy.
But they are still growing strong. So what makes these things bloom and why have mine stopped? Here is a photo of the pond this morning. Any thoughts?
More questions! I started my pond back at the end of May with a bunch of plants including 2 water hyacinth. Both rosettes bloomed twice (early June I think). At the time they were growing moderately and put out new leaves and at least one new plant each. One started blooming while they were in my main pond and then both bloomed when I soon moved them to my bog (about 5 inches of water in the "deep end"), but other than moving them to the bog side I haven't made any other changes. And they seemed to bloom happily in both the pond and bog.
Since then I've given away at least a dozen rosettes and have about 4 or so still in the bog, but I haven't had a single additional bloom. Now one thought is that as the trees continued to leaf up I'm just getting less sun on my pond (I get sun from about 7:30am to 12:30pm and the bog side might loose it a bit earlier). The other thing is that since the time they bloomed when the pond was less than a month old and there were probably more nutrients in the water the string algae has come is now mostly gone, so I'm wondering if all my plants are just using up to much of the nutrients and I should feed my fish more. The water has a little tint from some oak leaves but is basically crystal clear otherwise. Right now I only fish once every other day or so, but the fish are pretty fat and happy.
But they are still growing strong. So what makes these things bloom and why have mine stopped? Here is a photo of the pond this morning. Any thoughts?