Can you tell me a bit more about how you grow these?
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it's pretty simple, esp. if you have a green-water culture to feed them. If you're not maintaining a large culture, you can also use a bottle of invert food for reef tanks from your local pet store. they are opportunistic filter feeders and will feed on nearly anything that's small enough, but if you're raising them as fish / fry food, what you feed them has a large effect on the nutrition they provide. read http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~davidr/discus/articles/daphnia.html for more info, and googleing daphnia culture techniques will also help. If you don't have much experience with them, you may be better off getting a live culture rather than eggs to start, as the eggs also have triops and fairy shrimp eggs mixed in, and if you don't recognize and remove he triops that hatch first, they will eat the daphnia as soon as they hatch. live cultures, food for them, etc. can be found at Florida Aqua farms, lfs cultures, and carolina scientific supply. I'd recommend florida aqua farms, and get some roti-rich food as well. If you want to maintain a culture long-term, also get a starter of nanochlopropsis algae and some algae-grow to provide a food source for the dapnia that can be supplemented with one of the marine invert foods like kent marine microvert for a hign nutritional profile. If you mainly want aa fry food, get dapnia pulex or moina, not daphnia magna - if you mainly want to feed adult fish, daphnia magna are great. http://florida-aqua-farms.com/product-category/store/live-cultures/ http://www.lfscultures.com/cultures.html http://www.amazon.com/Kent-Marine-MicroVert-8-ounce-Bottle/dp/B00027ZV6E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1364209494&sr=8-2&keywords=microvert
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I have mine in a small glass tank directly under a standard aquarium light. I have bottles place elsewhere to give me green water to feed them one liter at a time. I started with the following link as a guide, and have adapted the set up to my own needs as I go. Best of luck!! http://www.caudata.org/daphnia/
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I just put potting soil in them and they grew giant tomato plants for me. I can't say there's anything special about how to use them.
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I'm not sure if you can but I put them in potting soil and watered them with unfertalized water and waited until they started visably growing before fertilizing With a liquid fertilizer mixed with water. For me it took about 3 months for them to take root and visably start growing. They are doing great and are about 6 inches tall with 4, 3 inch leaves. I've had them for about 9 months. I'd recommend doing some Internet research and find out what you need to know. I wish you luck.
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I put mine in regular organic soil in a small 4 " pot. Per 5 seeds evenly spaced Ill usually get one that grows. they are pain to grow. I put them about 1/2 cm into the soil. They like humidity but dont over water. once a week is good. if its not doing well put a clear plastic bag over it for a few days ( like proudce bags from the store )
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I am no expert. I planted mine in a pot for a month than moved them outside. They are doing great
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Sorry...mine barely sprouted. I might get another packet for this year. Thanks for reminding me anyway.
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I can't give you specifics as to your area but they grow in Central Massachusetts as annuals. They get rather large by the end of summer so save the seeds and start over in the early spring.
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I bought them & planted them in a pot in mid October. They came up in about 1.5 - 2 weeks with the grass like leaves. They still have not bloomed yet & I guess probably will not this year. When winter really sets in, I'll put the pot in my unheated garage & see what next year brings.Dave B
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they get very big! you need a good large support. And they are extremely fast growers. the larger the pole the better. I use a 4x4x12 pole and I wrap large hole wire (chicken wire) around pole. When the stems get large I start cutting the mesh out. By then their well on their way up the pole. They grow about a foot every couple of weeks, so be prepared to prune to suit and to control them.
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This batch has just sprouted. Don't know yet. The batch last season were inch and a half some longer
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I let them grow until they started getting a little hard, then I harvested them and made 1 dish. There aren't a lot so might as well eat them all at once. The other side of the box didn't sprout for me.
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I just planted some in my garden only a few days ago. so far nothing.. I did plant some in the house in those little green house plastic containers that come with the little dirt pods. they are already growing. took less than a week and they are already an inch tall.. the seeds I planted outside I water twice a day because it gets hot and dry quickly. I mixed garden soil and compost and steer manure into the garden. each seed is different as far as sun. So far I am happy with them.
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Mine were about the size of a small boiled egg--maybe a little bit smaller or about 2 1/2 inches from bottom to tips. They don't grow very much! : )
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I have no idea. I ended up canceling my order, didn't think they would grow in my area
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I'm sorry I can't answer these questions b/c I have not yet used any of the seeds, in part b/c there were no basic instructions as to how to grow (how deep to plant, etc.) Try cutting it back, most of pants will grow back. Sorry.
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Hi I put them in water overnight and then planted them. Only one seed sprouted anf it is growing as we speak, at this point it is still only a plant though but I hope to plant it in the ground soon
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Just need to plant them and water asap :). Instructions can be found found on the Mr Stacky website which shows best planting practices. Roots in the ground, crowns just above the soil line. Roots come dormant and coming out of dormancy so they are thirsty when you get them. New signs of growth will happen in 1-3 days. The weight should just be ignored amazons shipping goes on weight which is not accurate with actual USPS rates for shipping live plants so we the seller has to correct it by adding weight.Thank you very much!