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.

Super fast shipping! My order was shipped the day after I placed it and arrived much sooner than expected. About 99.9% of the plants arrived alive and healthy, with a fresh, earthy smell just as they should. Great value for the price! I ordered five packages since 1,000 isn’t a large amount when it comes to duckweed, and I was able to distribute them across three tanks. They make a great supplemental snack for fish while also helping maintain balanced aquarium parameters. The plants were a bright green color and looked very healthy overall. I’ll definitely be ordering from this seller again and would highly recommend them to other fish enthusiasts!

Arrived and in good shape but I counted them and there were only 998

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...

Service and delivery was good. However the price of this item is more than gold. I am going to start selling this on amazon at cup size value and not 1/2 a teaspoon. Quantity received is a rip off.

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.

I got the duckweed plants put it in water just like they said and it just turned brown I didn't get any kind of of multiplication of product or plant or anything it just went Brown so chickens didn't even get a chance to eat any of it..