How to plant bowl lotus
This article answers questions about how to plant bowl lotus and shares relevant experiences about the cultivation techniques of flowering plants, which can definitely help you. Let's learn together!
Many flower enthusiasts currently have their bowl lotuses in full bloom. Some may have ample sunlight at home but limited space, so they opt to grow miniature lotus varieties, commonly known as "bowl lotus." It is not too difficult to make them bloom.
1. Prepare container and soil
Firstly, you need to prepare a suitable container. If you buy a bowl lotus pot directly, it might be quite expensive. However, if you purchase items like sour and spicy fish bowls, defective soup bowls, or poached chicken bowls, they might be much cheaper.
The bottom of the pot for planting bowl lotus cannot have drainage holes, with a depth of about 12~15 centimeters and a width of about 25~30 centimeters.
Beginners are recommended to use soil without fertilizer (pay attention to changing the water a few days after adding fertilizer), such as pond mud, vegetable garden soil, garden soil, or special bowl lotus soil.
2. Timing of planting
Planting bowl lotus must be done in the appropriate season, and the temperature for maintenance must be consistently maintained above 20 degrees Celsius for faster growth.
In hot weather with ample sunlight, bowl lotus can grow rapidly. Bowl lotus generally starts to bloom from June to July. If your home cannot provide sufficient sunlight, it is best not to keep it, otherwise you can only see the leaves and not the flowers. It is best to have more than 8 hours of direct sunlight each day, and it should be moved to an outdoor balcony, terrace, or yard. If it's an indoor balcony, the difficulty of caring for bowl lotus is particularly high.
3. Why not recommend buying seeds?
Many flower enthusiasts like to buy bowl lotus seeds to cultivate them, but the cheap bowl lotus seeds bought online are usually vegetable rhizome seeds (with extra large leaves) that only grow leaves and do not bloom unless planted in a pond. Buying bowl lotus seeds should be done a bit earlier, otherwise you won't see any flowers that year.
How to plant bowl lotus
It can be easily identified as fake (simulated flowers)
Fake bowl lotus promotional images
Common promotional images of fake bowl lotus
Of course, there are also a few authentic bowl lotus seeds (bowl lotus generally does not produce seeds), but beginners are still recommended to buy rhizomes directly or purchase potted seedlings with leaves already grown, which would lower the difficulty of maintenance.