If you wish the lotus to send more shoots upwards then leave it alone, but if you want your lotus to stay in water and compact i suggest you cutting away all the surface leaves.
If you wish the lotus to send more shoots upwards then leave it alone, but if you want your lotus to stay in water and compact i suggest you cutting away all the surface leaves.
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Benetay
Surface leaves will behave like wat benetay mentioned. For me it looks nice to have 1 or 2 surface leaves. Because of that I did not cut it away. After 2 weeks on my overseas trip, I came back to see 60% water surface covered with surface leaves. Some of the plants below were quite bad due to light starvation. Cut all the surface leaves away and it never ame back leaving behind a nice bushy lotus plant.
Juz sharing my expenrience.
thanks for info.
thomas liew
same goes to certain echinodorus species.. they will send a surface leave up.. and if its not cutted away, all the newere leaves will reach out of the water
sherchoo,
does the lotus bud bloom after the surface leaf shoots over the water level and buds off? if so, think it should be quite a beautiful sight.. []
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you don't get buds from the surface leaf
the buds grow from the mother plant, much like an echinodorus flower stalk
errr... as long as u get the drift.. me a new beginner in fw u know.. hahaha[]
Let us work together to preserve the world for our children to inherit by being responsible to our surroundings. Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, bubbles and memories.
so what is the purpose of surface leave?
thomas liew
some woman once said this about men
"men aren't put there to make our lives easier, they're just put there"
floating leaves don't really serve a purpose per se
they just ARE
it's the nature of lotuses to put out floating leaves as they are much more effective at getting sunlight and carbon dioxide
Is this the reason why my big E. bleheri always has big leaves trying to grow out of the water? Even new leaves become big in no time.----------------
On 3/30/2002 12:15:42 AM
same goes to certain echinodorus species.. they will send a surface leave up.. and if its not cutted away, all the newere leaves will reach out of the water
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So if I now cut away all the leaves that touched water surface, will the plant become more compact?
koah fong
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KF, don't be like me, go and trim the cockscrew so hard that it has now stopped growing. I'm hoping that it is just resting.
why I don't do garden hybrids and aquarium strains: natural species is a history of Nature, while hybrids are just the whims of Man.
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koah fong, very likely for the Echinodorus, since they tend to grow big.. my E. bleheri is oredi 2ft tall and abt 40+ leaves or more, no matter how I trim the bigger leaves, its still the same
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