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Sunday baby how's everybody doing I hope
you're doing well today folks I got a
fun video for you it's Sunday it's
specie Sunday we're talking Liquid
Swords the emcees came to live out the
name man to football some hat and a
little bit old school whoo for those of
you down with the GZA genius one of the
best albums of all time we're talking
Amazon swords today folks and I got five
of them for you all maybe even a few
more okay so in today's video I'm gonna
break down multiple species of Amazon
swords if you like this style of video
where I break down multiple species in
the genus click the links around here
and check out the high groffle of video
I did with myself my man Josh my man
Andrew behind the camera I'm actually
not keeping any Amazon swords in the 220
behind me here I did add some rocks off
camera because I had to get my rocks off
but there's no swords in here so let's
roll outside and bring it to you out in
the wonderful little rimless tank and
show you all kinds of different species
here we go
okay so the first sword we're going to
talk about we're going to talk about a
Cana Taurus Blair I all these are
different varieties in the genus econo
Dorris this is a kind of doris Blair I
named after heiko I claimed to have
found every plan or every fish that's
ever been discovered in the wild Blair I
do love heiko I think this was actually
named after his mother who was a great
plant explorer but this is the Plain
Jane
Amazon sword this is like one of the
classic staples in the Hobby it's
readily available we sell tons of them
and this is also the first plant and all
these plants are going to fall under
this this is the first plant that I
learned that swords are a heavy root
feeder okay Plain Jane Amazon swords
folks I'm gonna tell it to you like this
look at this photo here here's an image
of my old one 25 you can see the rapid
growth of the sword from here to here
it's night and day look at the growth
you want more this is a photo of the
roots underneath my 220 gallon swords
are a heavy heavy root feeder got it I'm
a dirted tank guide and click links
around here where I talk about all kinds
of substrate into the holder to tank
thing that's fine but you've got to
figure out how to feed these plants to
roots roots tab root tabs some sort of a
nutrient-rich substrate is the way to go
now I've got a couple variations of this
plant right here I've got one that was
clearly grown above water if you go to a
store and you look at the plant and the
plant has a leaf that looks like this
this leaf has a long stem then the leaf
comes out like a spoon that's not gonna
do you any good I've got one here that's
actually been grown under water quite a
while this is a ratty little thing to
cut but this is entirely under water
growth this plant right here believe it
or not or this plant right here is
actually a better example we'll take off
faster than this plant because all this
is gonna die it's all gonna die so this
is actually more robust growth you can
see the above water growth that's dying
here left on intentionally and when we
sell these we rip these off because
they're not doing you any good so we
take that off and I do want to show you
another example of this sword being
grown above water you can click links
around here and see me actually
collecting these in the wild but
check this out surprise skank bonus for
you that's right we got anaconda Doris
Blair I I'm not even sure this is a blur
but wherever this is obviously grown
entirely up out of the water outside of
greenhouse 1.0 so that's what it looks
like growing above water
clearly this plant was growing above
water in a tub I absolutely love this as
an example so I'm glad I saved it for
you I kind of Doris Blair i Plain Jane
Green simple easiest ones to grow
generally speaking with aquarium plants
or any plant for that matter the more
simple the more plain Jane green the
easier they are going to be to grow
converse that with like a more reds or
more wild variations they're gonna be a
little harder go that's why I'm starting
with the Condors Blair out your Plain
Jane
Amazon sword alright we're gonna go from
The Plain Jane Amazon sword we're gonna
go tall and skinny then we're gonna go
short and fat we're gonna start with
tall and skinny this is called anaconda
Doris pointy sword I don't actually know
the scientific name of it I think it's
just a variation where they actually
just cross this plant across this print
and in breed it kind of like a dog or
whatever to get you the style that you
want this is a tall and skinny variety
of the Amazon sword known as the pointy
sword so what they do is they just keep
finding swords that have long and
skinnier leaves and they get them a
pointy notice the difference between
this plant and then like the leaves on
this one it's skinnier it's pointy or
it's a pointy sword this has been grown
above water you can see the
deterioration in the leaves right here
that's obviously grown above water we
have put this below water and it started
to convert with these wonderful leaves
down here go from the pointy sword down
into one I think this plan is just fat
literally fat PHA T and FA T if you will
this is an Amazon sword tropica okay
short variety a little ruffled leaf
rough rugged plant both of these are
still green both of these are still
Hardy but not quite as Hardy as the
plain-jane Amazon sword variety tropical
presumably grown by the plant juggernaut
over in Europe tropical you click links
around and check out we make George
Thomas tour of tropical recently they
developed this sword and they developed
it with low short little round leaves
absolutely love this plant rough rugged
both of these are still heavy root
feeders you can see the big roots
coming on here by the way you want your
plants roots to be as long as your
plants leaves this is a prime-time
example of that this is an a game
tropica sword right here we got tall and
skinny we got the Luigi we got the Mario
of swords time to move on to something
fancy
all right folks we're going from the
greens to the queens we're talking about
the marble Queen sword you don't name a
plant or a fish for that matter after
some sort of royalty if it isn't awesome
this is a marble Queen sword I
absolutely love this plant now we're
going from the greens to the Queens
what's going on here we got a little
marbled variation on it you can see a
close-up here I'm a ninja with the fire
video work if you haven't noticed where
you can see how this plant has the
little white marbling within the leaves
when you get that sort of marbling you
get a little fancier a little more
sensitive this plant does not bounce
back quite as well as the regular
plain-jane
the plain-jane player I saw because it's
a queen it's a little more sensitive
right so this plant we actually get and
we hold on to them for a while we've had
them for a good bit this plant has been
grown underwater for about two weeks
here and it's just it's a stunning
background plant it gives you a nice
contrast to because if you have like a
you know you got a lot of like dark
greens or whatever then you've got this
like little contrast lighter variation
green the marbled queen sword I would
love to know if anybody has a comment on
if you're keeping marbled Queens how
they treat you doesn't get quite as big
you'll see that with the variations of
the swords when you get away from the
kind of doors Blair eyed whatever they
don't get as big when they're more when
there's a more like marble variations or
other variations but definitely a super
cool background plant and obviously we
sell them but drive me a comment if
you're keeping a marble sword oh I love
this plan
alright we're going from the marble
Queens we're gonna get deep with you
we're gonna talk about the deep purple
sword right swords heavy root feeders
like a lot of nutrients at the substrate
I run clay at the bottom I used one
pound of clay for 20 gallons of water by
the way it's as a rough ratio deep
purple swords folks look obviously grown
above water they grow them above water
by the way because the plant grows
faster there's more readily available
co2 we ready available light and
actually less like concerns of algebra
ever because the plants growing above
water however you got to convert it so
this plants growing above water
this leaves dying as you can see but
right here folks who this is what we
talked about you look at the center of
the plant look at the center all your
plants but particularly the swords when
you get this red in here that's what
we're talking about today folks the red
in the center with a deep purple sword
that's how you know you're headed in the
right direction
heavy heavy root feeder the deep purple
swords there's another great example of
it the deep purple swords are not going
to get as long not gonna get as tall
because they're a variation okay I think
they're cultivar I don't even think
these plants are found in the wild drop
me a comment if you know if they are not
I think they just keep crossing and
crossing and Crossing red plants until
they get it but deep purple sword coming
in hot coming in red other varieties you
can also see an Indian red sword or
whatever they're just basically
variations what to keep that deep purple
we've also got anaconda doors hybrid red
periodically in stock that's a really
fat plant but deep purple swords a
little bit shorter another great
contrast you get a deep purple sword you
get a marbled sword run those together
give you a nice red contrast with the
lighter marbled sword oK we've talked
about Blair I background plan we've
talked about pointy sword background
plant we've talked about marbled Queen
background maybe mid ground plant we've
talked about deep horrible purple mid
ground plant we've talked about tropica
sword right here
definitely a foreground mid-ground plant
now we got a straight foreground plant
right the final plan of this wonderful
species Sunday for you all I got two
varieties my competitors sell it looking
like this I sell it looking like this
because this is the kind of Doris tin
Ellis got a great little name honestly
folks I haven't been keeping this plant
until about this past year I really got
into it entirely growing above water is
gonna look great for about a week then
it's all gonna turn to garbage right
here and then you want the low growing
short to nellis think of it like a
dwarfs agile in the a little more picky
it's gonna give you a narrower leaf I'm
just in love with this plant I can't
wait for greenhouse 2.0 to just have
fields of it growing really short and
narrow absolutely love it foreground
plant heavy heavy root feeder you're
gonna want to make sure there's lots of
nutrients at the substrate for this so
you peel this back folks and it's got
all kinds of just little new growth you
just plant that down there you can see
all kinds of great Aquos capers using
this
instead of Dwarfs ads not as easy to
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Amazon swords maybe you got deep purple
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