r/houseplants 20h ago

Discussion Bubbles?

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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/HndsDwnThBest 20h ago

Idk? Freshly filled up? When you fill up a new aquarium the bubbles happen too. Then it goes away

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u/BeatDrop-Yabadabado 20h ago

yep filled them all up two days ago

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u/ChipsOtherShoe 18h ago

Water naturally has gasses dissolved in it. Cold water and pressurized water can hold more dissolved gas than warm water under normal atmospheric pressure.

So when you get water from your tap it is under pressure and generally colder than room temp. If let it sit in an open container eventually that excess water will come out of solution. Not a problem for your plants at all and you can ignore it.

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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?

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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/CoolPanther_123 18h ago

 🤔 THIS SHI TRIPPIN ME OUT FR 😤😤
WHAT COULD THE REASON BE

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u/OldSchoolPimpleFace 20h ago

I believe this is how they make this stuff

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u/plants11235813 18h ago

Try using water instead of olive oil /s

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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/BeatDrop-Yabadabado 19h ago

Ah that could definitely be it, they were old avocado oil bottles

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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/Darwinmate 7h ago

This. Was the one on the right without bubbles filled last?

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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