Product description
Lotus Flower Seeds - Lotus Water Lily Seeds - Poddo Phool, Kamal Gatta -
•• High Best Quality Seeds
•• perfect for UK weather
•• season of interest: all year round
Lotus seeds no dormant period, as long as the water temperature can be maintained at 16 ℃ above the four seasons can be planted. Lotus seeds in the temperature, light suitable conditions, from sowing to flowering spring takes 50-60 days, fall 60-80 days.
Planting method:
1st, the seed treatment:
lotus seed shell hard and dense, soaking before the artificial must be broken, lotus seeds have a small tip, the other end of a small pits. The end of a small pits in the rough concrete floor worn or with a pair of tiger pliers clip a small mouth, careful not to pinch the embryo, and do not shell.
2nd, the soaking germination:
summer water temperature 20 ℃ -30 ℃ is suitable for lotus seed germination, depending on the number of seeds with a bowl or pot of water to soak the seeds for the degree. Placed in the room, twice a day for water, 1 week can germinate. After the bud placed in the sun, strengthen the light, not water. 2 weeks after the growth of fine roots and 2 to 3 young tender leaves, until the leaves such as money-like, root formation can be classified.
3rd, sprout colonization:
selection diameter 20cm ~ 50cm bottomless pots or plastic flower pots, pots plus half pots of pastoral soil or no chemical pollution of the river pond mud, two weeks in advance to add water soaking, do not fertilize. When planting the small root of the small seedlings into the mud, each pot of a plant. After planting, add appropriate amount of water, water is not submerged small lotus leaf is appropriate.
4th, fertilizer management:
transplant 2 to 3 weeks later, to be into the growth period (summer), this time the demand for water is the largest, so the whole summer should pay attention to the cylinder can not be dehydrated. Rainy season rainfall is more concentrated, Tang Ping lotus water level can not be submerged leaves, pay attention to timely drainage, to avoid the Dutch suffered the disaster.
Sacred Lotus seeds are large and have hard coat - but are actually straightforward to germinate and can remain viable for hundreds of years!
•Using a metal nail file, hacksaw blade etc scrape away at the side of the seed until a tiny amount of the white seed kernel is visible
•Be careful not to dame the seed kernel
•Soak in room temperature water for 3 days, changing water daily
•Seeds should swell to almost double their original size.
•For any seeds not swollen, file the seed a bit more and repeat soaking process
•Plant seeds 2cm deep in a pot of damp compost that is standing in a plant saucer of about 1cm water
•Ideally use rain water of distilled water
•Keep at 20-30c in a bright spot - if night time temperatures drop below this, use a heat mat
•Pot on as required, keeping the pots in saucers of water
•Plant out as you with any other water lily in late spring