Lotus planting process-illustration

Now I would like to introduce the planting process of bowl lotus.

First of all, we should learn to distinguish between the two ends of the lotus seeds.

It is easy to distinguish between the two ends of the lotus seed.

The seed coat of lotus seed is very thick, in order to germinate smoothly, simple treatment is needed. First of all, please distinguish between the two ends of the bowl lotus seed, one end is a small bulge, one end is a small concave point, to deal with the concave end. Then there are the slightly more difficult steps, where there are several ways to deal with one end of the pits, and the usual methods are:

1. Grind off the seed coat on the cement floor

2. Break it with pliers

3. Cut off a small seed coat with a sharp knife. You can also drill a small hole with an awl in the concave, soak in the water for a period of time and cut off a small fast seed coat with scissors! Be careful not to drill too deep, do not drill into the benevolence inside!

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Here are the lotus seeds that have drilled their eyes with an awl:

A well-drilled bowl lotus seed

Soak the treated seeds in a small box or plate or any container. Note:

1. If the temperature is low, you can use a thermos cup with 30 ℃ warm water. Indoor and outdoor bubbles are fine if the temperature is above 20 ℃.

2. Change the water twice a day. I usually change it once in the morning and once in the evening.

3. The water should be flooded beyond the depth of the seed.

4. If the temperature is high, it will sprout quickly. Generally above 20 degrees, sprouting from 3 days to a week.

Soak in water

The hard skin of the lotus seed soaked in 1 or 2 water can be easily peeled off by hand, and peeling off the outer skin of no more than 1 / 3 of the seed is beneficial to the seed budding as soon as possible.

Peel off skin

Continue to soak after peeling. On the fifth day, I saw the green bud.

Keep soaking.

From the seventh day on, I put it in the sun every day. In addition, pots for planting lotus flowers are prepared, filled with soil, soaked with water and ready. Nine days later, the first floating leaf was about to unfold and the second leaf came out. On the tenth day, the first floating leaf unfolded and the lotus seed began to take root.

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The rooting bowl lotus

After the lotus seed takes root, it can be planted, and the survival rate of the lotus seed planted after rooting is high and not easy to rot. With regard to using the soil, I feel that there is no need to find pond mud. I use ordinary garden soil with rotten organic fertilizer. Friends without organic fertilizer can use chicken manure, but chicken manure must rot through or it will burn lotus seeds! Soak the basin two days before planting until the soil is completely drenched. Just bury the root of the lotus seed down in the mud.

Transplant

With regard to the basin, the mud basin can grow 3-5 lotus bowls with a diameter of 30 cm and a height of 20 cm. From my mother's house, two water tanks with a diameter of 50 cm and a height of 48 cm are placed in the mud basin of the lotus seed and injected with water. Look, this is what day 13 looks like.

Day 13

After 22 days from May 31 (the 13th day) to June 21, each of the two lotus trees grew 5 floating leaves on average. Due to the temperature, the growth rate of the sun will be different. If a pot is planted with many seeds, it will be divided into pots in the future. Generally, a pot with a diameter of 25 centimeters will be fine. Too many words compete with each other for strong sunshine!

Piece of lotus leaf

Points for attention in planting lotus bowls:

1. When planting or dividing lotus roots, special attention should be paid to protecting the terminal buds of planted lotus roots from bruising.

2. The container should be larger and deeper, although it is called bowl lotus, but if it is cultivated in a vegetable bowl, it will be too small and too shallow. The nutrient soil in the bowl is too shallow to make the plant get sufficient nutrients; it is too small to accommodate the stretched fibrous roots, and it will not grow well.

3. Give enough sunshine. Flower growers should not only pay attention to the bowl lotus indoor decoration environment and appreciation, keep it indoors for a long time so that it can not see the sun, forget that it is a plant that loves plenty of sunshine, only when the pot soil is warm, can it grow rapidly.

4. The amount of water supply should be controlled according to the different periods of plant growth. When the bowl lotus is first planted, there should not be much water, which will lower the temperature, not conducive to the rooting and development of seedlings, and affect its respiration and ventilation, and even cause rotten roots. When the leaves of the plant grow up, the bowl needs to be filled with clear water gradually in order to meet the needs of photosynthesis when the leaves float on the water surface. Otherwise, the leaf edge will be scorched and yellowed.

The lotus blossoms

5. Pay attention to appropriate amount of fertilizer. Bowl lotus likes fertilizer, but if it is lack of fertilizer, it will take root and grow leaves slowly and lack vitality. Therefore, before planting, a small amount of cooked cake fertilizer liquid or bean bran and peanut bran should be mixed into the pot soil as base fertilizer. However, although the bowl lotus is a fertilizer-loving plant, it should not be fertilized excessively, especially because the bowl lotus container is small, the plant is small, and the amount of fertilizer needed is also small. If more fertilizer is applied, there will be the phenomenon of light and long leaves not blooming. If it is more serious, it can also wither the plant. If excessive fertilization is found, it is necessary to change the water frequently to float away part of the fertilizer liquid and desalinate it.