Ludwigia Glandulosa turning really red!

[Plant Man]

I did some very light research online to find my tanks centerpiece plant. All I new was I wanted it to be very easy to grow. Most plants that are red or the more exotic stuff tends to be much harder to grow because they need so much light, much more then I’m providing. So I typed “easy aquarium plants” into google and found this plant "Ludwigia Glandulosa". It is a green plant in low light conditions and can be grown like that, but if you have enough light it will turn red. I bought this plant about 2 days ago and all the leaves were mostly green. look at all the new leaves at the top of the plant the're all red!


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I had a feeling I might get a bit of red but not this!

I’m in love!:1luvu:

[rich311k]

Looks great. Nice plant.

[Lady Hobbs]

Looking very nice.

[EmmanuelJB]

Great looking plant!

[HeatherH]

Very nice Plant Man! thumbs2:

[SunSchein89]

Very cool, I'll have to keep that one in mind for when I convert my 20 gal. to planted. I was looking for plants with red in them to keep to the theme I have going in there. What lighting, co2(if any), and ferts are you using to get these results?

[Plant Man]

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Getting redder!

[WhiteDevil]

so jealous.

I can only get reds in one tank right now. Very nice looking plant.

[Plant Man]

Looks like the Ludwigia Glandulosa, is going to lose all its original leaves in the transition from green to red. The new leaves are coming in great and remaining strong, but as the old leaves started to change red they also started cracking and falling off.

I'm hoping that the plant is still going to look good with the stems showing at the bottom.

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