Water Gardening: Wooo Hooo! Lotus Seeds Germinating!, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
X - Great thread on growing Lotus from seeds as well as helpful information from everyone posting!

There are some interesting information links about growing Lotus on the Internet. My favorite website links are these two:

Lotus:
http://www.victoria-adventure.org/lotus/lotus_main.html
Lotus articles:
http://www.victoria-adventure.org/lotus/articles_index.html

And here are some interesting videos:
How to plant a lotus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ow1VbBds84&feature=related
Fertilizing Lotus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CX6yIaO7Ks&NR=1

I am trying the Miracle Gro since I also don't have fish in my water pots.

I finally got blooms this week from one of my water pots. I believe this cultivar is called "Red Scarf". My other pot still hasn't bloomed.

May I make a comment on fertilizing. The lotus do need a rest period. If you fertilize too late in the season and then the temps drop, you could get root rot. That happened to me a few years ago and I lost all my Lotus. Most fertilizer tabs or MiracleGro last about a month or so. So figure out a month and a half before your typical cool weather starts moving in. Also if you try to grow them indoors, they may not do well as they really need sunlight. Mine have been out in the freezing weather the past 2 years and came back in the Spring. So they do seem to be pretty hardy if you can move them to a sheltered place where it might be just a little warmer. The water in my pots froze over solid with ice and the lotus came back despite that. But the freeze didn't last but a few days, so don't know if that had anything to do with it. I do know people who move them into their greenhouse or garage and just let them go dormant right there in their water pots. Drag them out when the weather warms up and they come right back!