Management and maintenance of Lotus Flowers

Flower 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.

Flower lotus is a perennial water-standing herb of the genus Nymphaeaceae, which has been cultivated for at least 7000 years in China. The Yangtze River basin is generally planted with lotus roots around the Qingming Festival, and the lotus blossoms from June to August every year. During this period of time, it is windy and rainy, the temperature is high and the air humidity is high, which is the season with high incidence of diseases and insect pests, so it is necessary to strengthen daily management.

(1) Water management: Lotus is an aquatic plant, which is inseparable from water during the whole growing period. Summer is the peak of lotus growth, and the demand for water is also the largest, so we should pay attention to the whole summer can not be dehydrated in the cylinder basin. The rainfall in the plum rain season is more concentrated, and the water level of the lotus planted in the pond can not submerge the standing leaves. Attention should be paid to timely drainage to avoid the destruction of the lotus.

(2) Fertilizer management: Lotus likes fertilizer, but too much fertilizer will burn seedlings, so thin fertilizer should be applied frequently. Summer is the flowering stage of lotus, and the demand for fertilizer is greater than that at seedling stage. If the lotus leaves are yellow and thin and there are no disease spots after the flower buds come out of water, indicating that there is a lack of fertilizer, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be added in time, and fertilizer can be applied every 15 to 20 days (cake fertilizer or compound fertilizer). Pot planting lotus depending on the size of the basin, the fertilizer is stuffed into the mud in the middle of the basin and allowed to be released slowly.

(3) Light management: Lotus is a long-sunshine plant, and the cultivation site should have sufficient light. The row spacing of potted lotus plants should be appropriate, and overcrowded plants should be thinner and taller with fewer standing leaves. When growing lotus in containers such as vats, pots, bowls, etc., the lotus should be placed in a place with sufficient light or moved outside every day to receive light. After the lotus bud appears, the light should be not less than 6 hours a day, otherwise the plant will appear leaf color yellowing, bud wilting and so on.