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Minature cattails
Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep
them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ Carole |
Minature cattails
Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep
them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ Carole |
Minature cattails
Hi Carole - I used to have cattails in my pond (ditch variety) and put them
on the bottom (27" of water) - no problem Gale :~) Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ Carole |
Minature cattails
Hi Carole - I used to have cattails in my pond (ditch variety) and put them
on the bottom (27" of water) - no problem Gale :~) Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ Carole |
Minature cattails
"RED1102" wrote in message ... Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ Carole ========================== Why drop them to the bottom? That would probably drown and rot them depending how deep your pond is. I have mine with about 1" of water over the pot top and they're thriving. -- Carol.... "When did my wild oats turn to prunes and All Bran?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
Minature cattails
"RED1102" wrote in message ... Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ Carole ========================== Why drop them to the bottom? That would probably drown and rot them depending how deep your pond is. I have mine with about 1" of water over the pot top and they're thriving. -- Carol.... "When did my wild oats turn to prunes and All Bran?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
Minature cattails
"RED1102" wrote in message ... Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ I have cattails, not sure if the are miniature or not. Last year they were in 18 inches of water in my VF, and did OK. I recently repotted them, and sank the pot in about 3 feet of water. I already have 3 new shoots breaking the surface. -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
Minature cattails
"RED1102" wrote in message ... Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? I use to keep them on a milk crate about 12 in under the water, then last year I moved it to the edge. Now the pot sits about 3/4 into the water. I would like to drpo it all the way to the bottom of the pond but not sure if it would survive. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Northern NJ I have cattails, not sure if the are miniature or not. Last year they were in 18 inches of water in my VF, and did OK. I recently repotted them, and sank the pot in about 3 feet of water. I already have 3 new shoots breaking the surface. -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
Minature cattails
Someone with more info correct me if I'm wrong, but, ime, the standard
cattail gets about 6 ft. tall with a catkin of ~6", then there's a dwarf that is 3 ft. tall and catkin 2-3" and miniatures are only 18" tall with a catkin less than 1". ~ jan I have cattails, not sure if the are miniature or not. Last year they were in 18 inches of water in my VF, and did OK. I recently repotted them, and sank the pot in about 3 feet of water. I already have 3 new shoots breaking the surface. BV ~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?) |
Minature cattails
Someone with more info correct me if I'm wrong, but, ime, the standard
cattail gets about 6 ft. tall with a catkin of ~6", then there's a dwarf that is 3 ft. tall and catkin 2-3" and miniatures are only 18" tall with a catkin less than 1". ~ jan I have cattails, not sure if the are miniature or not. Last year they were in 18 inches of water in my VF, and did OK. I recently repotted them, and sank the pot in about 3 feet of water. I already have 3 new shoots breaking the surface. BV ~ jan (Do you know where your water quality is?) |
Minature cattails
~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
Someone with more info correct me if I'm wrong, but, ime, the standard cattail gets about 6 ft. tall with a catkin of ~6", then there's a dwarf that is 3 ft. tall and catkin 2-3" and miniatures are only 18" tall with a catkin less than 1". ~ jan I can't find cattail on Google. Anyone have a URL? |
Minature cattails
~ jan JJsPond.us wrote:
Someone with more info correct me if I'm wrong, but, ime, the standard cattail gets about 6 ft. tall with a catkin of ~6", then there's a dwarf that is 3 ft. tall and catkin 2-3" and miniatures are only 18" tall with a catkin less than 1". ~ jan I can't find cattail on Google. Anyone have a URL? |
Minature cattails
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:40:00 -0700, Offbreed
wrote: ~ jan JJsPond.us wrote: Someone with more info correct me if I'm wrong, but, ime, the standard cattail gets about 6 ft. tall with a catkin of ~6", then there's a dwarf that is 3 ft. tall and catkin 2-3" and miniatures are only 18" tall with a catkin less than 1". ~ jan I can't find cattail on Google. Anyone have a URL? Try Typha minima My book says it gets 12 to 18 inches high, should be in moist soil to water 3 inches deep. New book, "Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants." It's my current all time favorite water plant book. -- - Charles - -does not play well with others |
Minature cattails
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:40:00 -0700, Offbreed
wrote: ~ jan JJsPond.us wrote: Someone with more info correct me if I'm wrong, but, ime, the standard cattail gets about 6 ft. tall with a catkin of ~6", then there's a dwarf that is 3 ft. tall and catkin 2-3" and miniatures are only 18" tall with a catkin less than 1". ~ jan I can't find cattail on Google. Anyone have a URL? Try Typha minima My book says it gets 12 to 18 inches high, should be in moist soil to water 3 inches deep. New book, "Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants." It's my current all time favorite water plant book. -- - Charles - -does not play well with others |
Minature cattails
Charles wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:40:00 -0700, Offbreed I can't find cattail on Google. Anyone have a URL? Try Typha minima Thanks. Actually, I was looking for a source, but using the latin name brought up several merchants, one looks excellent for my purposes at a very good price. Better to search this way than with common names, looks like. Fewer incidental sites. |
Minature cattails
Charles wrote:
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:40:00 -0700, Offbreed I can't find cattail on Google. Anyone have a URL? Try Typha minima Thanks. Actually, I was looking for a source, but using the latin name brought up several merchants, one looks excellent for my purposes at a very good price. Better to search this way than with common names, looks like. Fewer incidental sites. |
Minature cattails
Try Typha minima My book says it gets 12 to 18 inches high, should be in moist soil to water 3 inches deep. New book, "Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants." Well at least that explains why I can't get them to grow in 12" of water. Back to the drawing board! Moon I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums. My groups |
Minature cattails
There are quite varying sizes to different cattails, some can be 8',
some just 2' ....all of them prefer to be fully submerged with their roots in water, just for proportions sake I'd say don't put them deeper than half their usual growing height, or the roots and shoots are likely to go all straggly in water too deep, with wind tossing them about as they travel out of the pot. About a quarter of their usual height to the top of their pot would be a reasonable compromise, too deep and the lanky straying rhisomes will soon be be wobbling at odd angles in any breeze It is hard to drown cat tails Regards, andy http://www.members.aol.com/abdavisnc/swglist.html (RED1102) wrote in message ... Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? |
Minature cattails
There are quite varying sizes to different cattails, some can be 8',
some just 2' ....all of them prefer to be fully submerged with their roots in water, just for proportions sake I'd say don't put them deeper than half their usual growing height, or the roots and shoots are likely to go all straggly in water too deep, with wind tossing them about as they travel out of the pot. About a quarter of their usual height to the top of their pot would be a reasonable compromise, too deep and the lanky straying rhisomes will soon be be wobbling at odd angles in any breeze It is hard to drown cat tails Regards, andy http://www.members.aol.com/abdavisnc/swglist.html (RED1102) wrote in message ... Does anyone know how deep you should put cattails in your pond? |
Minature cattails
About a quarter of their usual height to the top of their pot would be
a reasonable compromise, too deep and the lanky straying rhisomes will soon be be wobbling at odd angles in any breeze It is hard to drown cat tails I am trying to grow cattails in an aquarium with a hood about 24" above the water. I would like to havea small group eventaully (about 1.5 sq foot) at one end of the aquarium or maybe across the back. But they mustn't grow much more than 18" out of the water. The water will be a bout 12" deep. The aquarium has soil under sand as a substrait so how do I get this to happen? I've grown lots of cattails in open aquariums in my grenhouse but this is presenting a challenge. Moon I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums. My groups |
Minature cattails
About a quarter of their usual height to the top of their pot would be
a reasonable compromise, too deep and the lanky straying rhisomes will soon be be wobbling at odd angles in any breeze It is hard to drown cat tails I am trying to grow cattails in an aquarium with a hood about 24" above the water. I would like to havea small group eventaully (about 1.5 sq foot) at one end of the aquarium or maybe across the back. But they mustn't grow much more than 18" out of the water. The water will be a bout 12" deep. The aquarium has soil under sand as a substrait so how do I get this to happen? I've grown lots of cattails in open aquariums in my grenhouse but this is presenting a challenge. Moon I breed dwarf crayfish for planted aquariums and grow trees in aquariums. My groups |
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