After several failed attempts of growing hardy/tropical lilies & lotus bulbs as well as seeds more than I want to admit
Here is a fresh start for hopeful-post-covid-19 season :
- Seeds been sand off with grinder .
- Water change every other days.
After several failed attempts of growing hardy/tropical lilies & lotus bulbs as well as seeds more than I want to admit
Here is a fresh start for hopeful-post-covid-19 season :
- Seeds been sand off with grinder .
- Water change every other days.
After day 5th / transfer all gemination seeds to outdoor pot.
Another week.. temp is 70-80F during the day but 39-49 with heavy wind at night perhaps cause the difference ?!
This is indoor with the most sunlight -clear bowl right next to window .
More than 3-4 inches with healthy trunk.
This is indoor, no direct sunlight and next to window :
Decent grow - 2-3 inches but slimmer trunk.
And this poor girls are outside, 5-6 hrs minimum of direct sunlight daily
Sorry for this bad picture, I try to cover and reduce glare
I am prepare multiple containers to transfer them when ready ( rooting coming out ) -perhaps another 4 weeks.
There will be couple batch I will transfer them much earlier than the typical 35 days: I like to see if we can jumpstart it and hope that it will grow successfully in my 9b with mountain wind weather .
Dong-
Wishing you success... so far doing well
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Thank you Noahsnana ...
This is today: can you believe we are at 20-30F last night and for the next couple of nights ?
I will head to the MD ( just barely miss the nasty weather @ NE tomorrow ) this weekend and will stay there for few weeks.
This batch will be outside and my wife will have to them cover for the night ( I hope )
Dong-
Hi. What kind soil I can use for plant on pond. Like in water?
Hi Phuc: you are lucky, Orlando weather is nice and warm for the lotus to grow.
From what I heard from an older native India, I am trying an 80-clay and 20-manure soil mix and will see how things grow: this needs to be in a wide-and-shallow pot and placed inside a larger pot ( to control the water level ?).
And if you have koi in your pond, then it will not survive past one season, ask me how do I know!
I have been using API tablets, ... all not working so far for me .
Here is what they are today
Note that the outside are completely slow and look the same, so I am sure our local weather had a lot to do with it.
( I just head back from MD, so I can not complaint !)