How to plant water lily seeds? A step-by-step guide to the planting method

Planting method for hardy water lily seeds

For seed propagation of hardy water lilies, once the water lily fruit sinks into the water, the seeds can be harvested in about 10 days. Cut the fruit off the pedicel, place it in a shallow dish filled with water, and pinch open the fruit shell to pour out the seeds. The seeds are surrounded by a transparent gelatinous substance; do not remove this gelatinous substance, but keep it carefully and sow it into the mud together with the seeds.

For the substrate used to plant water lily seeds, garden soil can be chosen. When sowing, use small tweezers to place the seeds with the gelatinous substance on the surface of the soil, and keep a certain distance between the seeds. Then, sprinkle a thin layer of fine soil just enough to cover the seeds. Spray water to settle the soil onto the seeds.

Planting into a river channel or a flower pot

Precautions

Water lily seeds should be planted in the warm spring season when flowers bloom

Water lily seed planting method, how to plant water lily seeds [with illustrations]

In life, there is no shortage of people among us who are very passionate about the ocean and love aquatic plants in the ocean and in land lakes, so at home they tend to grow some aquatic flowers, such as water lilies. But water lilies grow from seeds into flowers, so how are these water lily seeds grown into plants and flowers, and how should everyone plant water lily seeds? Below, let us take a look at the planting method for water lily seeds.

▏▎Introduction to water lily seeds

Water lily seeds, that is, the seeds of the water lily. Everyone knows the water lily; it is a very common perennial aquatic herbaceous plant in our lives, and it is a plant of the genus Nymphaea in the family Nymphaeaceae. Water lilies generally bloom in summer, so the flowering period is usually concentrated in the few months of summer. Once the flowering period passes, the plant enters the fruiting period, which is the period of bearing fruit and producing seed. Later, water lily seeds are formed. The seeds look very hard, are oval in shape, and are mostly black, very round and plump. At the same time, the outer layer of water lily seeds is wrapped in a gelatinous substance, and there are also some fleshy ring-shaped arils; the embryo looks relatively small.

▏▎Planting method for water lily seeds

1. Simple treatment of water lily seeds

Not all seeds can be used for planting; everyone surely understands this, so at the beginning of planting water lily seeds, we have a simple task of seed selection and treatment. Usually, water lily seeds with one pointed end and the other rounded end are relatively high quality, so when choosing seeds, everyone should pay attention to observing the overall shape of the seeds. After the seeds are selected, they can be treated. First, use scissors or a file to dig a hole at one end of the seed; it does not need to be too deep. This hole is where the water lily will later send out its seedling, so the opening should be suitable and the depth should also be appropriate, and you should dig gently.

2. Soaking water lily seeds to sprout

After the water lily seeds are treated, everyone needs to place them in a container to soak. The liquid for soaking can simply be ordinary clean water. Note that the soaking time is about 1 to 2 days. If you find that there is no change after soaking, you can take the seeds out and use scissors or a file to make the seed shell slightly larger, then continue soaking. In this way, after about a week of soaking, everyone will be able to find that a green sprout has grown from the place where the seed was dug open. After sprouting, the seeds grow rapidly, and the seedlings that soon grow out will become very long. In this case, the seeds can basically be considered successfully planted.

▏▎Precautions for planting water lily seeds

Actually, planting water lily seeds is a very simple matter, but everyone still has many points to note during the planting process. For example, with the issue of water, although ordinary clean water is enough, in order to better promote seed germination, the temperature of the clean water we prepare can be kept at 25 to 30°C, and the container for soaking the seeds can also be placed in a place with sufficient indoor light. Because water lilies love sunlight very much, even a single seed is like this, and sufficient light is more conducive to the growth of the seeds. In addition, after the seeds successfully sprout, everyone needs to pay attention to the water depth in the container; it cannot be too high or too low.

Conclusion: The planting method for water lily seeds is really quite simple, and growing water lilies is not a particularly difficult thing either, so if everyone is really interested in growing water lilies, you can try it right now.