branching lps

[KBennett]

Hi,
I was just wondering how long it takes branching hammer heads to separate.  I have one that now has 14 heads from 2, but all the new ones are still connected by a lot of tissue.  In most pics I've seen, they have a small amount of tissue on the end of each branch.  My duncan and candy canes are doing the same thing.

 

[Poseidon]

Yes I find they take a very long time to grow new stems and heads.

 

[EricTMah]

Have you tested your ALK, CA and MAG?

 

[KBennett]

Parameters are fine.  I'd say that it is very healthy.  There is a couple inches of thick living tissue under the heads.  I thought that tissue would have receded or died off by now.
I'll take some pics after dark tonight.

 

[KBennett]

Isn't this an excessive amount of tissue?


It's about the size of a baseball like that, softball sized when extended.

 

[curiousphil]

Looks fine to me.  Tissue is good, give it time and the tissue should continue to calcify and create branches.  I have branching frogspawn and duncans that I both got at last years Fragfest, the duncan is just finally starting to branch now and the frogspawn looks similar to yours above.