1000 Live Duckweed Plants LEMNA Minor

It arrived smelling kinda like my sauerkraut when I don't add enough salt, but, clearly, the plants are alive and well! There were enough to seed all of my aquariums, and the smell has dissipated, leaving me with fresh smelling pond-like water.

I was hopeful... but greatly disappointed. At least the plants were not shipped in a plastic bag, but a specimen jar, so that was good. Out of 1000+ plants, NONE were green. Notta. All brown. And, there is nothing in the Amazon description that states they cannot be placed in an outdoor pond. That is why I purchased them in the first place. The instructions that arrived with these dead plants states that they will have a putrid sewage smell with some explanation as to why. It also says that some will not be green and that is normal... well, mine stayed brown for about 5 days, and I discarded them all. I quarantined them, as stated in the instructions. I would have NEVER tossed them into my pond or aquarium. I love my fish too much for that. It also states that duckweed is very hard to kill. Well, I guess that if you place them in a covered container and ship them to other states, that is one way to kill them. No SUN???.... so if you have a pond that has direct sun,that is the second way to kill duckweed. So, feel free to toss these in your shady swamp and enjoy!! I would have rather taken my $7 and purchased a BK Whopper. The sellers should explain exactly what these are, and how they are to be grown. Not after receiving the product, but before, like in the Amazon description. Shame on them. No direct sunlight??? No where in the description does it say for indoor growing only. But on the packing slip, that is exactly what it states. Go somewhere else and purchase quality plants. As you can tell, I am not happy at all with this seller or the plants that they bagged from their backyard swamp and are selling on Amazon. I thought at least I could get a runaway snail in the batch, but that didn't happen either.

Reviews are all over the board. My experience is this: Ordered: Took a week USPS, late October. Picked up within the hour. Which by chance they give you two hours for warranty. Arrived in name brand ziplock sandwich bag, devoid of running fluids. Open it and took big wiff, just organic smell. I took out 1/4 of clump, spread it out in water, had ai count them, several thousand leaves it claims. So you get 10x+ ai evaluation: Based on a visual estimation from the image, the approximate ratio of the leaves is: ​Green: 75-80% ​Yellow/Brown: 20-25% More: In summary, for a small-scale culture like this appears to be, it looks quite typical. If this were in a larger pond ecosystem, the rapid growth could become problematic, but for contained cultivation, it indicates successful propagation with minor, normal die-off.

these tiny plants are great but they did clog the filter intake if in a small tank. My african frogs love to hang out under them.

Product arrived alive so I had high hopes. Ive been keeping it in an environment that it should thrive well in but instead it has barely clung to life. After checking other reviews I see that Im lucky it arrived alive, but its common for it to be dead or die quickly. This plant should have grown in size and multiplied alot by now. Instead I am still left with super tiny dots of green that now have me questioning if its even alive and not some painted plastic dots...

I was expecting live, green plants. What arrived were brown, toxic smelling (I’m assuming dead?) plants full of pests. Not. Impressed.

Plants arrived live and we'll. Survived for a while, so I know they were healthy, but they died. Probably something I did on my part, but yeah. I didn't realize I was buying the mini ones, and was quite surprised, but I was giggly about it cause I'd been thinking about buying the tiny ones, and it turns out. Fate had other plans.

Really no worth the cost. A teaspoon full of microscopic duckweed. Don’t waste your money. I have it in water with additives and it’s slooooowly growing. I found a pond with gigantic, compared to this, duckweed for free.