transplanting Lotuses, because after a full growing
season in the mud, separating the rhizomes will be a
very smelly, icky, and generally yucky process. You don’t
have to do it, your plant will be ok for a few seasons but
will rapidly burst its original pot and grow to fill your
pond… and if you thought it was bad to thin a single
plant after one season, try it when the plant is grown to
weigh half a ton with hundreds of feet of tubers.
Exponentially yucky, if not outright impossible.
Plant your rhizomes as shown, with the shoot sticking up
and the rhizomes and roots just under the soil. Place a
large rock on the rhizome to hold it in place. Do not use
gravel, or you'll be picking them up one by one when it
comes time to split it again. Fertilize it with water plant
fertilizer tabs when you see the shoot break the surface.
season in the mud, separating the rhizomes will be a
very smelly, icky, and generally yucky process. You don’t
have to do it, your plant will be ok for a few seasons but
will rapidly burst its original pot and grow to fill your
pond… and if you thought it was bad to thin a single
plant after one season, try it when the plant is grown to
weigh half a ton with hundreds of feet of tubers.
Exponentially yucky, if not outright impossible.
Plant your rhizomes as shown, with the shoot sticking up
and the rhizomes and roots just under the soil. Place a
large rock on the rhizome to hold it in place. Do not use
gravel, or you'll be picking them up one by one when it
comes time to split it again. Fertilize it with water plant
fertilizer tabs when you see the shoot break the surface.
Seasons of the Lotus - Splitting your plant
As Thanksgiving approaches, your
Lotus plant will begin to die back
until it looks like the plant in the
picture above. It's not in fact dying
at all - its just preparing to sleep
for the Winter.
In places that actually have real
Winters this is when the plants go
completely dormant and owners
will split the plants to replicate
them. We split ours in the middle
of the growing season - not sure
why, but our bloom rates are better
this way.
Lotus plant will begin to die back
until it looks like the plant in the
picture above. It's not in fact dying
at all - its just preparing to sleep
for the Winter.
In places that actually have real
Winters this is when the plants go
completely dormant and owners
will split the plants to replicate
them. We split ours in the middle
of the growing season - not sure
why, but our bloom rates are better
this way.
| Lotus in Winter |
Lotus are vigorous growers and will quickly
grow to fill (and overfill) their containers. When
they enter their dormant period in the winter,
remove the pot and separate the runners to get
lots of baby plants. The diagram to the right
shows what your cutting should look like after
you separate it from the parent plant. Noted
Confucian Scholar Zhou Dunyi said, "I love the
Lotus because, while growing from the mud, it is
unstained." We're pretty sure that noted
Confucian Scholars didn't spend a lot of time
grow to fill (and overfill) their containers. When
they enter their dormant period in the winter,
remove the pot and separate the runners to get
lots of baby plants. The diagram to the right
shows what your cutting should look like after
you separate it from the parent plant. Noted
Confucian Scholar Zhou Dunyi said, "I love the
Lotus because, while growing from the mud, it is
unstained." We're pretty sure that noted
Confucian Scholars didn't spend a lot of time
