Plants for Profit: Cryptocorynes - My Secrets Revealed! 

Very cool! Thanks for sharing your friend’s crypt secrets!

I learned that you put grape leaves in your soil to help the crypts grow better and use a laterite substrate base with a stratum/eco complete blend cap. I just used this in my new tank setup. Thanks!

Two months ago when I first watched this video, I was setting back up my larger tanks, after them being down for a couple months, for remodeling projects and, well, letting the tanks dry out because I had, a slight problem with snail leeches that was defying me. Since then, in the last month, I have been letting my crypts and other plants adjust. It's not easy to start over again from scratch, but this video at the time was perfectly timed to keep me going. Thank you again.

I love these plants. I start my plants in a cold water tank and transfer to tropical tank by lowering the temp of the tank slightly and slowly increasing the temp over a week. Works great. Grape leaves. Gotta find some!

Crypts are the easiest! Space them out and add a bunch of osmocote. I chuckled every time you said roots lol. Great info.

Timely as I bought a Crypt culture at Aquarium Knoxville last weekend. Got to get them cleaned and planted. Good information. Thank Bentley.

For the contest, I'm enthralled by Crypts. So I'll give you a My Planted Aquarium story began twenty years ago. I had a 30 gallon aquarium. I new nothing about plants, but we had a great "farm" store somewhere near Exton, PA. I went in and told them I knew nothing about keeping plants, but I wanted to give it a shot. I believe they were Crypt Wendtii Brown, Val, and Hornwort. Knowing nothing about the plants, I just left the crypts alone with a couple Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Inc. Root Tabs. They did wonderfully. I'm not trying to recreate that success with more technology and knowledge than I had then, yet sometimes more isn't better. As a bonus, if the community tab allows it, I'll take a picture of the 20yo box of root tabs for you!

I've never done tissue culture before so learning that they need to be rinse the gel off as much as you can was good to know. Also the grape leaf tip was nice to learn. Hoping to try that out myself soon.

I hear everyone say crypts grow slow but with root tabs they grow a lot quicker than you would think💯🌱💙🔥

Great video. Great tip on the grape leaves would have never thought of that on my own.

Your plants always look so nice. Thanks for the tips.

Bentley as I mentioned at some point, I was going through your past videos, picking up plant hints. The grape leaves are a great idea. I am using a red Flourite medium in my shrimpless shrimp tank right now and apparently it is iron rich. My red Ludwigia is doing well as is another pink culture I bought and promptly forgot the name of. I really don't like cleaning the substrate, it comes wet and because it is clay, it is very dusty!!! Well actually muddy. It takes a lot of cleaning. It is not the easiest to set roots in but once you get a plant in, it is pretty darn good! As usual thanks for everything!

Loving your content! Really enjoy the care guides you do! Keep it up :)

Bentley. I’ll admit I’m not much a plant guy but seeing how you prepared yours has inspired me to maybe give it a try

Thanks for the great tips! Have dabbled with most of the other common plants but for some reason haven't ended up with crypts yet. Was planning on picking some up soon, hopefully for cheap at the next club auction! Glad to get a bit of info before hand!

Thanks for the tips. So interesting and I have access to grape leaves...perfect!

I love all the crypts I have tried, Its one of the plants I have had very good success' with. I should have my planted tanks back up and ready to go by the end of this month, I will be replacing all the crypts I had before and starting over fresh with those two tanks.

I did not know about the grape leaves. I have heard that grape wood had some beneficial properties for bacterial meds but good to know!

Mine are going crazy and what you said helped a bunch!

Can the grape leaves be fresh picked and green, or do they need to be dried before putting under the substrate?

Great info. Thanks for sharing Bentley!!!

Good info, thank you! 😁👍

Good to know that you believe that tissue cultures are the way to go. I didn't know you got more value that way. Tissue cultures are becoming more popular in my area. I think after watching your video I will give them a try.

Great video

Very helpful, I’ve got a couple pots of wendtii ready to go. I may have to go looking for grape leaves

Thank you so much for sharing this awesome information 👍🌿🌱💯

Enjoyed the info on the tissue cultures. I'll try them one day. So far not many for sale at the local stores.

I loved this video. I knew nothing about training plants to grow. Like James: now I know lol 🙏🏻❤️

Congrats on 1500subs

cool .. I had no idea what a tissue culture was? sounds like some serious biology experiment .. actually that does "appear" to be be a good way to go. we'll see .. I'll do that some time & find out .. notice I didn't say try .. with all the awesome information I've learned from you. I'm "planning" great success ..

Thank you ! Great info !

Cool water for converting the crypt tissue cultures is a nice tip. I wish I had known that before I spent $30 on a tissue culture of Albida Red. They melted back 100 percent and now I just have to cross my fingers that the someday poke there heads out again.

Ive been hesitant about using tissue cultures. They just seem really expensive and the few times I've tried them they've died... I learned that maybe it's because I'm not starting them in a cooler water system. Thanks for the tip, will have to try it out.

i ordered crypt nurii "pink line" the guy says... from lithuania and it arrived so ncie. no melt. i got it about a week ago and its already opening another leaf. doing duper well. low tech using eco coplete mixed into and on top of potting soil. also i have AR i keep buying because i love it. i have been taking the melt from the converting plants an drying them on top of my light nd tucking them into substrate..

Great Vid!

I wonder if pink panther is the same as pink flamingo. just took apart one of my wendtii greens so I could put most of one of the plants into my parents/sister's tank and man, SO MANY PLANTS came out of that one clump. The imagitarium tissue culture cup I got had 4 of them, two of them are massive in one of my tanks and one is in another community tank while the last one is in a shrimp tank. That last one is the one I took apart, left maybe a third or quarter in the shrimp tank, and had enough plants to make a nice starting carpet for the 20 tall I gave them. Makes me want to take apart the ones in the other tanks and spread them around

Bentley, can you please just clarify to use fresh green leaves rather than dried old leaves. Also do you blanch (1) whole leaf and roll it up as a root tab per plant or can you depending on size of leaf to use 1/2 portion of leaf? Thank you for this info & your time.

I wish I had seen this video a month ago - I have just set up a 100 gallon dirted tank and planted 3 species of crypys. I live in Greece and have an unlimited supply of grape leaves. Had I known then what I know now I would have put a load of them into the substrate, it's a bit late now. Can you just clarify, are we talking about fresh grape leaves picked from the vine when they are green or are we talking about when they are on their last legs, turned brown and falling off in the autumn?

Awesome video Bentley. I have crypts in about 5 of my tanks, haven’t noticed a huge difference in ones with Co2 vs without Co2. Do you find the same? Great point on the root feeding the ones with root tabs are double the size of those straight into substrate with ferts added to water column

Muy buen video pero desperdiciar una cantidad enorme de agua y se supone que los acuaristas somos amigos de la naturaleza. Daniel de Acapulco.

Bentley Pascoe. Thanks for the video. This was very helpful information. I just subscribed.

Great video thank you. Can I just ask about the grape leaves. Do they need to be fresh leaves or are old out of season dried leaves ok/better? Many thanks

I can grow wendtii crypts like crazy, but have not had good luck with pink flamingo. I have got them converted to submerged growth but then a couple months later they melt and die off. I need to get some grape leaves now and try again with the flamingo and some others

Great information, is there a website you’d recommend for getting them in a tissue culture? Also what size tank would you recommend to grow those in?

Thanks for the tips on what cryptocorynes like for nutrients. That will greatly help me grow them out more efficiently. Any good places to buy grape leaves on the internet! Next tank I set up I am going to do the way you had that on done with the laterite base and the different layers.

What is the best sight to Pink Flamingo or Florida Sunset at.

Hopefully you see this. I know this is an older video. I love crypts and would like to propagate them for sale at auctions and swaps. My question is how do you remove them from your tanks and prepare them for sale without them melting? Everytime I move them they tend to melt back and regrow.

Hi! Will it matter for the leaves if you have a yellow-ish lighting or white (the one like you) lighting? Thanks in advance !

Lol. I just googled where to buy dried grape leaves, and then instantly remembered I have established wine grapes growing outside 🤦‍♀️😂 wowww

Hey man , really great info. I' d like to know what type of crypt is at the beginning of the video and what type is the tissue culture one from Denerle.

Did u go over your chills Java fern how to in a video if not can u? Best way to attach or best size to start with . I like thems

Thanks for the video sir. Question though, where would we get grape leave from? I myself hate grapes so if they come on the ones in the store sorry for asking lol. Have a nice holiday.

What would be a good grape leaves substitute if you live in tropical world?

Hey Bentley, what type of light do you use for your crypt tank? I have had success with most aqua plants, but not with pink flamingo.

Watching the backlog... Where are the best places to get tissue cultures?

Can you spot feed the Crypts with Thrive with a pipette

Bentley, you mentioned root tabs on the text on the screen but you didn’t mention your brand of choice. Which root tabs do you use, other than the grape leaves 😂 keep up the great work!

Any advice on starting stem plants from a tissue culture? I've tried a few different species from tissue cultures, and haven't had any success.

I have always liked Cryptocorynes. I have just recently planted them in an aquaterrium set-up, similar to yours. Is it possible to get them to flower in these conditions?

Nice.

How do you avoid algae doing submerged growth??!!

Would the grape leaves have any affect on fish in the tank? Or should these be put in only if it is crypt growing and no fish? Thanks. :)

Also, have you ever heard of nurii (pink line) ?

Where do you get the grape leaves? Any specific kind?

Just ordered Crypt. Lucens and crypt. Parva from the coop, would you recommend using co2 besides easy green and easy iron?

Bentley can you please recommend a couple of different foods that I can feed my rainbow fish assortment I'm looking for a really good high quality food for them. Thank you

Are those fresh grape leaves?

Best glue for plants on stone? I’ve tried recommended glues without success.

can crypts be grown emersed under heavy misting?

Do you see any reason the crypts wouldn't be a good plant to grow out with shrimp at 72/73°F?

Slow growing is an understatement hahahaha

Interesting. You are using an expensive substrate. Not necessary with planted tanks. Yes cripts do very well with peat. I do make my own substrate a peat spagmaan moss with red fluorite mix. I get very good growth. I just broke up December’s plant. 3 plants. I’ve broke out 30 individual plants in varying size. All in $10 dollars in substrate. This is how I’ve been doing it for over 40 years. Long before $50 dollar bags of aquarium substrate. Not trying to be ignorant but I see a lot of people wasting money on commercial products designed to get the miner out of your pocket.

Rutzz 😂😂😂

Unbelievable you wasting so much of water taking off the gel.... 😭

Completely irrelevant, but you sound like the announcer in a golf game. Lol