Here are a couple of pictures of my lotus pond. More later when the newer
buds come into bloom.

Nedra
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"Nedra" wrote in message
hlink.net...
My lotus pond is on its 3rd or 4th year with No division. The pond is
crammed
full blossoms & buds and the leaves are gigantic. Wonder
if its some sort of ole wives tale that they should be divided - at least
every other
year? Jan's experience and mine seem to indicate that they do best if
left
alone.

Nedra
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"~ jan JJsPond.us" wrote in message
s.com...
You can do them whenever they go dormant, is my understanding.

Here in Zone 7 I wait for a nice sunny day in late Feb, early March and
up
end the pots. Get them mailed out, or sold, soon after. I held the
tubers
in a bucket for a few days and potted most up. K30 was a tad busy and
didn't get over to get hers right away, so I left hers and some for my
sister in the bucket. Don't know if some cold nights got to them or
what,
they looked viable, but neither hers or my sister's grew..... Course
then
there is the big tuber I put back to grow in the container they all came
from, and it's not doing a darn thing, all the others I potted up to
sell,
grew and were sold. The tuber isn't mushy either, but maybe it takes
them
a
long time to rot? Water temp is in the 80's and has been for couple
weeks.
The 2nd Lotus container I didn't touch this year is growing great guns
and
has 4-6 buds up. Very confusing plant for me. ~ jan

Thanks. It appears my best plan may be to leave them until April. And I
had
all kinds of cool plans for a lotus garden this year. Dern.

BV.


(Do you know where your water quality is?)