
Feature:
The Lotus is surprisingly easy to grow! If you do not have a pond,
you can grow them in tubs or barrels filled with half soil and half water.
Lotus flowers are edible and are used as a garnish or for tea & wine.
The Lotus also has medicinal & herbal uses.
Description:
| NAME | Red Lotus |
| OTHER COMMON NAMES | Sacred Water Lily / Lily Pad / Asian Water Lotus |
| SCIENTIFIC NAME | Nymphaea |
| COLOR | Red 9 - 12" flowers |
| PLANT SEEDS | Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost |
| BLOOM TIME | Late Spring - Early Summer |
| HARDINESS ZONE | 4 - 11 |
| PLANT HEIGHT | 48 - 72" |
| PLANT SPACING | 24 - 36" |
| LIGHT REQUIREMENTS | Sun - Part Shade |
| SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES | Pond / Aquatic |
| QUANTITY | 10 Seeds |
Planting mothed
Sowing
Lotus seeds have no resting period,as long as the water temperature can maintain at 16 above,
it can be sow all the four seasons.
Under the condition of appropriate temperature and illumination,
it would take 50 to 60 days from sowing to flowering in spring,in autumn need 60-80 days.
Seeds treatment
Lotus seeds' shell are hard and dense,seeds must be manually break before soaking of seeds,
on the one side of lotus seed has the small acuminate,on the other side has a small pit.
We need to break a small mouth of the small pit side use vice,
must be careful,not to cut of embryo and don't rid of the shell.
Soaking of seeds
20 to 30 water temperature is perfect for lotus seed
germination in summer,depending on how much seeds with a bowl or a pot
fill with water to soaking seeds.Put indoor,replace water twice a day,it
can sprout within 1 week.After sprout put it on somewhre exposed to the sun,
strengthen the light,not lack of water.It would grow fine roots after 2 weeks and 2 ~ 3 young leaves,
when root formation can be partial load.
Bud seedling transplanting
Choose diameter of 18 c m ~ 30 c m without bottom hole pot with half
of the river pond silt soil,add water soak two weeks in advance,
not to fertilization.When transplanting seedlings you need to duck the fine roots in the mud,
1 plant each pot,add right amount water will not drown the leaves.
Package include
10 x Red Lotus seeds



