Many flower lovers like aquatic plants in summer, especially lotus (details), very characteristic. So the flower friends thought of using lotus seeds to plant the lotus, so lotus seeds are really can be planted out of the lotus? How high is the survival rate? How should it be operated?
Lotus (details)
In mid-April, select the seed full, no injury containing buds of lotus (the market sells a kind of lotus that has been picked off the heart of the buds, can not be used), placed in warm water, soaked, three or four days after the buds can come out. At this time, choose a caliber of 30 cm or more pots, the bottom of the leakage holes blocked, the bottom of the pot on the seven or eight pieces of paw paw pieces and some chicken and duck hair as a bottom fertilizer, covered with about half a foot thick paddy soil or planting flowers of the old soil, and then the germination of the lotus planted, so that the buds exposed to the surface of the soil, irrigation from the surface of the soil half a foot or so of water, to be a lotus grows out of two or three leaves, and then increase the height of the water surface. After the lotus is planted, the pot should be placed in a place with a back wind and a sunny view. After the buds and leaves grow, if the temperature is high, you can cover the basin with a bamboo curtain or other shade at noon to avoid the scorching sun. If the color of the leaves is light and thin, you can stuff the mud in June and July with an appropriate amount of soybean cake or jaggery residue.
According to the above method, lotus can bloom that year. To be "frost" after the lotus residual flowers cut, moved into the cooler (do not freeze) indoor winter, as long as the water to maintain soil moisture, the next year out of the outdoor (mid-April) irrigation and fertilization, but also buds, buds, and once again, the fragrance.