water jar

A visiting friend admired my vase of hornwort so much, I thinned some out and gave him to start his own jar. I didn't lift the stems out this past week to trim. Just pinched the tops that had reached surface. New nodes coming out all along the lengths of the stems. There's still one trumpet snail in there cleaning up algae and adding its waste as a bit of fertilizer. It seems the right balance so far.

Outside the tiny container pond is frozen. Spirodela polyrhiza in there is still green, even encased in the ice. Water lettuce long dead, it didn't like being indoors. Sometimes it feels a long wait until spring already.