HI, I'm trying to get some small parva plants to stay where I put them and I'm having trouble. I'm using long curved tweezers and I can get the plants in, but when I start pulling the tweezers out, the plant comes with it. I've tried all the positions I can think of with no luck. When I use my all-purpose chop stick to hold the plant down, it comes up with the chopstick.
CanI tie several plants to a rock and bury that? Or am I missing something obvious?
before you pull the tweezers out it helps to wiggle it side to side to let the substrate cover the hole you just make. after that release is and pull slowly.
The trick also sometimes is pushing it in a couple inches where you want the plant then drag the roots with the tweezer in place, release gently, then pull away.
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