1000 Live Duckweed Plants LEMNA Minor

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.

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.

First off, my duckweed arrived in a bottle, like a medical bottle. I received so much more than 1000! Sadly most of it died which is my fault, not the sellers, I'll explain. I had asked a friend to pick up my mail the day it arrived because I was at work. The friend bailed on me, had better things to do and the duckweed sat in a metal parcel locker in the sun four 3+ hours in 90+ degrees which in the metal parcel locker was probably 100+ degrees. It was pretty much white from being cooked. I did separate all the green ones from the center I could find and waiting to see if they recover. Next time I will be ordering in cooler weather and yes I will order from this seller again, even though the duckweed was mostly gone I could see it was heat damage and not a bad batch. The roots are long and I could see how healthy they all where! Ok now it smells extremely bad. Even when it's a good batch it's gonna smell like death warmed over, this is stagnant pond water it's in. So be prepared for that and maybe open outside. To help the smell, just put it in maybe a different container and use dechlorinated water and swap out some of the water and the smell will reduce. It's gonna be going through a bit of transfer shock so give it some time to quarantine and recover before throwing it in your tank or pond.

No bad smells but I felt sort of weird about something I saw in the bag, added water, HAD SO MANY detritus worms! I counted 7 and had already put half in my tank lol

Four stars. Was pleased with the amount of duckweed. It did arrive bright green and living. Got what I expected, but not enthused about the "horsehair worms" which came included in the shipment.

Fast shipping, Good quality product. Great Value. Arrived live and well.

Ever wanted your house to smell like a sewer exploded in it? This is the answer to that prayer! That sweet pungent smell of rotten dung, rushing to fill every corner of your home, the instant need to vomit for all, no one better could have pulled that off! Never in my life have I ever vomited from the smell of something but this did it for me! And the kids, and the dogs! Upon immediately exiting the house to release that pungent scent in to the world the Flys will swarm to you and your neighbors will flee! If this doesn't get you pulling your wallet out then how about the added bonus of burns on your very own flesh from the water??? That's right fokes! Blisters to appear like magic with a simple touch! And if you had hopes to never wash the smell away then I have great news for you! No amount of wash your hands or body will remove this short of epicly vile smell away! In short people the smell to kill you, the water to finish the job, and the knowledge no one will ever lose your scent!!!

When i bought this i was super excited because i have one batta and i want him to feel more comfortable in his ten gl... Or so i thought when i got it I could literally smell it through the bag (like the amazon bag it came in) it made my room stink for days i was literally revolted anytime i had to come into my room It was absolutely vial Not only that i could not even feed my fish with these things in the way it made my whole tank disgusting and i had to clean it 4 times in a span of 3 days ( the third day is when i just got tired of it and threw it out ) anyway it took me 5 hours to get most of it, There is still some left over so yeah never buying this again i would read these reviews before actually buying