What is a bowl of lotus? How do you raise it at home? What are the precautions?

Many people like to keep a bowl of lotus at home, which looks like lotus and water lily, fresh and elegant, placed on several tables indoors, can beautify the environment, so what is a bowl of lotus? How do you raise it at home? What are the precautions?

What is a bowl of lotus

Bowl lotus, usually refers to the small and medium-sized type of lotus, the scientific name is the same as the lotus. The lotus leaves are round, with floating leaves floating on the water surface and standing leaves extending above the water surface, while the water lily leaves are round with notches, and only floating leaves float on the water surface. Bowl lotus is an aquatic flower grown in small utensils. Although the bowl of lotus is small and exquisite, it does not lose the freshness and delicacy of the lotus, which can be placed on several tables in the room to beautify the environment and make your room more fresh.

Second, how to raise bowl lotus at home

1. Bowl lotus planting preparation

(1) planting time

Many flower lovers like to plant bowl lotus at home, shaped like lotus flowers. Although they do not have the proud posture of Daming Lake, a small bowl of lotus at home is enough to make you feel the beauty of immersion. But the question is, when to buy seeds and when to plant them?

In fact, the seeds of lotus can be sown all the year round. As long as the water temperature is controlled at about 16 ℃, the seeds can germinate normally. The suitable growth temperature after seed germination is 15-30 ℃. For families with lower indoor temperature in winter, we can choose to sow seeds in spring.

(2) material preparation

Bowls of lotus seeds, files, mud, white flowerpots, sand.

two。 Planting method of bowl lotus

(1) seed treatment

First of all, the seeds are treated with broken shells. When eating lotus seeds, people will notice that there is a layer of green epidermis outside the lotus seeds. After the lotus seeds mature, the outer epidermis becomes black and hard. It is said that as long as this layer of white skin is preserved, lotus seeds can be buried in the soil for a hundred years or even the year before last. If you don't deal with the seed before planting it, you may not see it sprout for the rest of your life.

The lotus seed is pointed at one end and round at the other. Make a small opening at the end of the circle, grind it on the rough cement floor or break it with a file. In short, you must open your mouth, let the water seep into the seeds and germinate as soon as possible.

(2) soaking seeds to accelerate germination

The next step is to soak the broken seeds in 30 ℃ warm water to accelerate germination, soak for 2-7 days, and change the water 2-3 times a day. The average seed will sprout on the 5th day, and if it hasn't sprouted in 7 days, it won't sprout again. Throw away this kind of seed.

In addition, the water temperature of soaking seeds should be controlled at about 30 ℃, which should not be higher than 40 ℃ or lower than 20 ℃, otherwise the seeds would germinate slowly.

(3) raising seedlings by hydroponic culture

After germination, the seeds were hydroponically cultured in 25 ℃ for 5-7 days. In the process of hydroponics, ensure that the moisture is about 10 cm, the light is sufficient, do not often change water and turn, so as not to affect the growth of leaves.

Hydroponic culture for a period of time, the first leaf unfolds, the second leaf is about to expand, and grow white roots, which can be planted in mud.

(4) selection of basin and planting

According to the needs of planting, put the prepared silt or fine sand into the flowerpot, add soil, water and fertilizer, stir evenly and rest. When the water is clear, plant the seeds of the lotus bowl. All the seeds are in the mud, the leaves stretch freely on the surface of the water, and the water must not pass the leaves. In addition, in the process of planting, handle it gently and do not break the petiole.

Family planting, for the sake of beauty, after the seeds are planted, lay a layer of stone on the water surface to ensure that the water surface is clear and increase ornamental.

(5) flowering

The flowering time of different varieties of bowl lotus is different. generally speaking, bowl lotus grows 5 or 17 standing leaves and slowly begins to show buds. However, some varieties grow buds and blossom soon after they grow standing leaves. As long as you take good care of it, it is only a matter of time before the bowl lotus blossoms!

Matters needing attention in planting lotus bowls

1. The container should be large.

The container for planting bowl lotus should be a little larger, if only the ordinary bowl at home is too small and too shallow, the nutrient soil is too little, the bowl lotus can not grow fully, and the root leaves can not be well stretched, then the bowl lotus planted in this way does not make any sense!

two。 The sun needs enough.

In the maintenance of bowl lotus, can not blindly put bowl lotus in indoor decoration environment, indoor maintenance for a long time, bowl lotus can not see the sun, slow growth. Often take the bowl lotus outdoors, accept the sun, only bask in the soil warm up, the growth will be more exuberant.

3. Fertilization should be light.

Bowl lotus like fertilizer, like nitrogen fertilizer, during the growth period to ensure adequate nutrients, in addition to adding enough nutrients to the soil before planting, but also timely topdressing. Topdressing is based on the size of the flowerpot, the plant is small, the flowerpot is small, you should apply less fertilizer. If fertilizing too much, there will be light long leaves do not blossom phenomenon, more serious, the plant withered.

4. The leaf length needs to be cut.

In the process of maintenance, the leaves of bowl lotus will be longer and denser, which will affect the growth of bowl lotus to a certain extent, it is necessary to remove some leaves properly to promote plant respiration and air permeability.

Fourth, the difference between bowl lotus and water lily

1. The leaves of water lilies are floating on the water, there is a V gap, only floating leaves. On the other hand, the bowl lotus has floating leaves floating on the water surface, as well as standing leaves extending above the water surface.

two。 The leaves of water lilies are shiny and have no fluff on the surface. The leaves of lotus bowls are fluffy.

3. There is a lotus canopy in the flower heart of the bowl lotus, but the water lily does not.

4. Water lilies have larger plants and have a certain degree of cold tolerance. On the other hand, the lotus plant is smaller and is not resistant to cold.

5. The petals of water lilies are long and narrow, and the flowers are slightly larger, with red, pink, white and yellow, mostly white, and leaves are oval or heart-shaped. On the other hand, the petals of bowl lotus are nearly round and the flower color is single, which is generally only red and yellow, and the size is only about five centimeters.

Time: 2019-04-06 Click: