Hi Greg ... Thanks a million for the great detail on how you plant
and fertilize your lotuses. I have saved this... and will follow it
this fall. This is the second year for my pond with no divisons
done yet. This past winter was so severe .. was afriad my lotuses
had gotten killed. They must be tougher than one thinks!
Thanks again!

Nedra
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"Gregory Young" wrote in message
t...
I agree Nedra. They are heavy feeders, but they do fine fed once per
month.
I have 6 diff. varieties in my 2 large (1/2 acre) ponds.
To plant, I get the $25 - $37 Agway heavy plastic (feels almost like
rubber)
barrels that are 3 feet in diameter, and about 8 inches or so deep.
I dig out a hole in the clay floor of the pond, near the edge, and use the
clay excavated to fill the barrel, to 1 inch from the top of the barrel.
(I fill it part way, then drag it into the water for buoyancy to offset
its
weight a bit, then fill as above. I could never move a fully filled wet
clay
containing barrel of this size otherwise!)
Then I "plant" the tuber on the surface, (basically laying a flat stone of
top of it, so it doesn't float away), then drag the barrel into the hole .
When done the pot is 2 inches under water, maximum.
The lotuses grow like crazy, and bloom profusely (except last year the
blooms had a one day life span due to Japanese beetles!).
All the barrels are round (don't plant lotus in square pots, no matter
what
kind of pond you have, as the square edges can "pinch" the growing tip of
the tuber, which always seems to find that corner to get wedged in.
The other advantage of shallow depth is that I can catch the running tuber
when it jumps the pot edges, which is a yearly event, and put it back into
the pot, or as I had to do last year, cut it, as there was no room left...
Happy ponding,
Greg


"Nedra" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Note: on the link I posted please be advised that for Lotus
don't do all the different fertilizing that Gareth says you should
do. I really think this would end up burning the tuber unless
you knew for certain what you were doing ;-) Better
off just putting the tuber in a Very Large closed container -
Use plain ole garden soil then add the Lily Bloom tabs.
That is what I do.

Nedra
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"Nedra" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Go to this site:
http://www.victoria-adventure.org/
... on the left you'll see the word Lotus.
Click on Lotus ... you'll see all the info you ever need right there.

Nedra in Missouri
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"EliezerE" wrote in message
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How about Lotuses? I'm new to them, probably won't grow for me, but
would
appreciate info about depth, or anything else.