How to grow lotus at home

Lotus is an excellent summer water greening plant, which can not only be used for large area pond planting to beautify the water surface and purify the water quality, but also can be planted in pots and pots, placed in the courtyard, pavilions and other places to decorate the environment, but also can decorate the home with bowl planting. So, how to grow lotus at home?

First, how to grow lotus at home

1. Buy the seeds, and then soak the seeds.

2. Wear out the round end of the seed, be careful not to hurt the seed inside, and then soak it in water.

3. If you change the water twice a day, it will sprout in about four or five days, and some will sprout a little longer until the bud of the seed is about ten centimeters (there are about two leaves, one is still very small, and the leaf has not yet opened.) You can transplant it.

3. You can wait for it to grow a stem in the water before transplanting.

4. Soak the soil for potted lotus plants for a week before transplanting.

5. The soil can use river mud and general soil, and fresh lotus pond mud does not need to be soaked.

6. The container is about 30 centimeters. The bigger the container, the bigger the leaves.

7. the soil for potted lotus needs to be about 15 cm deep, and too shallow is not conducive to growth.

Lotus is a perennial herb of the genus Nymphaeaceae, which has been cultivated for at least 7000 years in China.