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Many flower friends want to try growing bowl lotus, but are not sure if it is easy to grow. Bowl lotus seeds germinate easily, and leaves grow easily, the difficulty lies in blooming. However, if the lighting conditions are good and proper maintenance is provided, blooming is not very difficult. Overall, the planting difficulty of bowl lotus is moderate, and flower friends can try it. Seeds are also not expensive. Here are four tips summarized by a flower friend, which are very useful for beginners to avoid taking detours.
1. Soil issues: Some flower friends say that the soil for planting bowl lotus should be river mud or "nutrient-rich soil" (similar to the soil for roses, just a discovery project by the college, not very practical). In fact, it's not necessary. General garden soil is fine.
2. issues of base fertilizer and top dressing for bowl lotus: It is recommended that new flower friends not use base fertilizer when starting to plant, because bowl lotus does not require much fertilizer in the early stage of growth. It is enough to meet the nutrient needs through regular top dressing during the blooming period. If improper use of base fertilizer causes僵藕 and dead藕 in the later stage, it is not worth the loss. If you don't know how to top dress, you can skip it, and the plant can still grow. However, there may be issues such as few buds or abnormal flower shapes during the blooming period. It's not too late to try top dressing after gaining some planting experience.
3. Is it better to buy seeds or rhizomes for bowl lotus? The common propagation methods of bowl lotus include莲子 and藕 (methods such as藕鞭 and藕 bud propagation are not discussed), so the market mostly has (C-S)莲子 and藕. The gene pool of lotus is large, with genetic diversity and instability, which makes bowl lotus have many varieties. The diverse and unstable genetic expression is often passed on through seeds, so breeders use this characteristic to manually pollinate and hybridize to obtain莲子, and through planting莲子, observe, and select new varieties through elimination and screening. Rhizomes, on the other hand, are cut from the mother plant's daughter or granddaughter rhizomes, without the mixing of new genes, so their performance is more stable. Therefore, it is often the case that flower friends have a mother plant with white flowers and abundant blooms, and when planting daughter rhizomes, they also have white flowers and abundant blooms. However, when the mother plant is naturally pollinated, the莲子 produced by the same lotus pod show different results: some bloom red, some have red and white flowers, and some only grow leaves.
4. Disease issues: Bowl lotus does have diseases, but they are rare, unlike roses, which are prone to diseases. I planted them on the rooftop terrace and in the courtyard of a high-rise building, and compared the two. The ones on the high-rise did not encounter any diseases, while the ones in the courtyard had problems with caterpillars. Usually, I just add water and apply top dressing regularly.
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