How do you grow water hyacinth seeds? A detailed guide to the planting method

I. Planting method

1. First, you need to collect seeds. We can generally choose some ponds where this plant grows and blooms abundantly, and there is no need to fish it out right away. By September to October, the fruits of this plant will begin to ripen. When its fruits turn pale yellow, we can pick off the already curved flower stalks that bear fruit, and after picking them off, spread the flower stalks together with the seeds in a cool place to air-dry. Then we can peel off the fruit skin and take out the seeds.

2. If, when these flowers are at their brightest, between 9 and 10 in the morning, you gently rub the flowers that have already exposed pollen against their stigmas, you can produce relatively good seeds.

3. From late February to early March, soak plump, yellow-brown seeds in water at a temperature of 25 to 30 degrees for 10 days, and then you can scatter the seeds on the water surface where you want to plant them.

4. Also, during this process, keep the surrounding temperature at 30 degrees, and after about one to two weeks they will sprout.

5. When it can grow 5 to 6 leaves, its leaf stalks will swell up and already have buoyancy, and once its seedlings have branched, we can transplant them.

II. Points to note

1. About one plant with one flower spike can produce more than 300 seeds, and these seeds are all very small, and 1,000 of them weigh only 0.4 grams, and they are yellow-brown. Even if these seeds are deposited in mud, they can survive for 5 to 20 years.

2. This plant has very strong adaptability, and it can grow in reservoirs, lakes, ponds, canals, or river channels with relatively slow flow.

3. Correspondingly, also because of its strong environmental adaptability, it can grow in rice fields, absorb the nutrients of the crops, and affect the yield.