How to Grow Lotus at Home: A Detailed Guide to Home Cultivation Methods

Lotus is an excellent summer aquatic greening plant. It can be used for large-area pond planting to beautify the water surface and purify water quality, can also be planted in tubs and pots and placed in courtyards, pavilions and other places to decorate the environment, and can even be planted in bowls to accent the home. So, how do you grow lotus at home?

1. How to Grow Lotus at Home

1. Buy good seeds, then soak the seeds.

2. Grind open the round end of the seed, being careful not to damage the seed inside, then place it in water to soak.

3. Change the water twice a day. After about four or five days, sprouts will appear; some take a little longer to germinate. When the sprout growing from the seed is about ten cm long (roughly two leaves, one still very small with the leaf not yet open), it can be transplanted.

3. You can wait until it grows a stem while soaking in the water before transplanting.

4. Before transplanting, first soak the soil used for planting potted lotus for a week, then plant.

5. The soil can be river pond mud and ordinary soil; fresh lotus pond mud does not need soaking.

6. Choose a container about thirty cm in size; the larger the container, the larger the leaves that grow later.

7. The soil for planting potted lotus needs to be about fifteen cm deep; too shallow is not good for growth.

Lotus is a perennial emergent herbaceous plant of the genus Nelumbo in the family Nymphaeaceae, and has a cultivation history of at least 7000 years in China.