Every year in the spring, you can plant some lotus roots at home, and in the summer it will bloom very beautiful lotus flowers, and its growth cycle is generally four months, until the fall, you will harvest a lot of lotus roots, lotus roots are generally very long, is a section of the shape of a section.
Lotus root growth process
The seed root rhizome first began to sprout, the first leaf will grow, the humidity is suitable for the case, the lotus will also begin to sprout, but this time to grow the leaves are generally floating leaves, after the leaves began to grow one by one, and then began to bear lotus root, this period is the lotus growth is more exuberant, the number of standing leaves will be increased a lot, and at the same time, each section of the stem may be drawn out new branches, and the plant may grow a lot. At the same time, each section of the stem may produce new branches, the plant also began to bud and blossom growth, lotus growth to a certain extent, the stem will begin to expand and then the formation of lotus root, lotus root is fully formed, the leaves began to wither and enter the dormant period.
How to plant lotus root
General planting of lotus root, try to choose in March to April every year, in the selection of seeds should also be observed, in the lower part of the lotus root there is no new shoots, try to choose to three or three sections of the intact lotus root, and there are young shoots, the general planting of shallow lotus root planting method for the diagonal insertion method, the head of the lotus root seed diagonal inserted into the soil, the depth of the best for the 8-12 cm, the slope is about 25 °. The head of the lotus root should be opposite to the left and right, and the planting points around the head of the lotus root should all face to the field, usually in a three-way arrangement is the best.