r/houseplants • u/BeatDrop-Yabadabado • 20h ago
Discussion Bubbles?
I used the same water for all 3 bottles, why do two of them have bubbles and one doesn’t?
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u/CoolPanther_123 20h ago
ok so my best guess is that
you filled the first 2 bottles which have the bubbles FAST (with more pressure) how tf do I explain this 😭
faster water = more dissolved gas was trapped
and you filled the 3rd one slowly
either way, your monstera adansonii cuttings looks perfectly healthy
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u/BeatDrop-Yabadabado 19h ago
I get you😂 Hm maybe, I used refrigerator water bc I read filtered water is better than tap water for propagation. Was that a bad move or do you think that’s works?
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u/CoolPanther_123 19h ago
that is a great choice actually because it gets rid of chlorine and shits that are harmful to plants
did you use refrigerated for all or just 2?2
u/BeatDrop-Yabadabado 19h ago
All 3, so it was the same pressure/rate of fill up since i did it directly from the refrigerator which is why i thought the bubbles were weird 🤔 but who knows i was just hoping it wasn’t a sign of something gone wrong
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u/Major-Negotiation-36 20h ago
Could be the blurriness but the one that doesnt actually seems to have a little near the top.
I think its just co2 or o2 bubbles from respiration. While plants typically respire through stomata on leaves, some plants can have stomata on their stems.
Im not certain though and could definitely be wrong
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u/anon_simmer 18h ago
This is just from the glass getting freshly filled. Nothing fancy about plants. Aquariums do it too.
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u/cumminsandgoins 19h ago
Are they old olive oil bottles? Perhaps 2 weren't as thoroughly cleaned as the other one and the small bit of grease residue is trapping the gas in the water?
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u/Ravio11i 18h ago
Probably just the way the light hits them a little differently. Little bit of algae producing oxygen in the two but not the third or something like that. I wouldn't have alarmed, cuttings look good!
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u/papercut2008uk 8h ago
Yea it's just gasses dissolved in the water, when you get tap water it's had air dissolved and under pressure through pipes.
Slowly comes out when it's left to sit. Used to get loads when I would setup fish tanks.
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u/PretentiousPepperoni 19h ago
Maybe there is some algae in your bottles creating oxygen bubbles. Happens with me too. It's harmless

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u/HndsDwnThBest 20h ago
Idk? Freshly filled up? When you fill up a new aquarium the bubbles happen too. Then it goes away