Teach you how to grow water-cultivated bowl lotus step by step!

Because of its small size, bowl lotus does not need too much container and space when planting, so it is a variety often chosen by domestic plants. The bowl lotus flower is colorful, fragrant, has a strong adaptability, but also can pot vase, in modern landscape architecture, more and more favored by people, more widely used.

1. Sowing seeds

⑴ time:

It can be used in all seasons, but the water temperature should be above 16 ℃.

⑵ seed:

The shell of lotus seed is hard and must be broken manually before soaking the seed. The lotus seed has a small tip on one end and a small concave spot on the other. Wear out the small concave end and wear out a layer of skin on the rough cement floor, be careful not to hurt the kernel inside, and don't shell it. The purpose of skin grinding is to let water seep in through this gap, so that the seed absorbs water and expands.

Soaking seeds with ⑶:

The seeds that have broken shells are placed in warm water of 20-40 degrees, and the water is changed every 1-2 days. Generally, they germinate after 3-5 days. Timely removal of lotus seeds foaming can not germinate the seeds. Generally speaking, under suitable external conditions, seeds that do not germinate for more than 7 days will not germinate again. Seeds that do not have the ability to germinate tend to surface, the germ turns yellow, and the cotyledons are moldy and smelly.

Transplantation of ⑷ shoots:

Choose 45cm~75cm pottery pot without bottom hole or plastic flowerpot, add half a basin of pastoral soil or river pond mud without chemical pollution, soak in water two weeks in advance, do not apply fertilizer. Press the fine roots of small lotus seedlings into the mud and plant one plant in each pot. a small amount of rotten cake fertilizer liquid or bean bran and peanut bran should be mixed as base fertilizer. However, although Wanlian is a fertilizer-loving plant, it should not be fertilized excessively. Generally, when planting, a small amount of basal fertilizer such as cake fertilizer is mixed into the culture soil to meet its annual needs, and there is no need to apply topdressing to avoid overgrowth.

two。 Light

⑴ bowl lotus is full of sunshine, if the light is less than 4 hours a day, it can not form flower buds.

During childbearing, ⑵ should be placed on a sunny balcony or windowsill facing the sun to make it receive all-day sunshine.

⑶ when the floating leaves are covered with the basin surface, the floating leaves should be pressed into the bowl mud in time so as not to affect the ventilation and light transmission.

⑷ bowl lotus plants are delicate and should be properly shaded around noon in summer and early autumn to avoid direct light. If exposed to strong light, leaves and petals are easy to scorch.

3. Pruning

When the leaves grow too much and too dense, part of the leaves can be removed properly to facilitate the plant to breathe. It also helps with the flowers. When using the same container for multiple culture, when it is found that the leaves compete for strong sunlight, they should be cultured in separate pots in time.

Remind friends who like to grow bowl lotus that in order to prolong the flowering period, you can use a grain of rotten cake the size of a plum stone as topdressing in summer and stuff it into the mud in the middle of the bowl. Do not apply it around the bowl wall. It is easy to cause root damage. Base fertilizer should not be applied too much, otherwise the light ones will have sparse leaves and flowers, and the heavy ones will "burn" the lotus roots. When the bowl lotus sutra is cultivated for one year, the fertility decreases and the underground rhizomes are dense, so it is appropriate to turn the bowl and change the soil before germination in early spring every year.