Help!! Propagating of 4 color lotus

[dinosaur]

Hi,

Sometime back, a fellow forumer gave me a stock of the above and told me to leave it floating in the tank, giving it lots of light and nutrients, let the plantlet starts to grow before planting it.

Now, i am seeing a plantlet but have the following queries.

1. At what stage should i plant the lotus into the substrate?
2. Do i cut the existing stem and the petals?

Many thanks

[jacian]

Thread moved to Planted Tank Section. More people will able to help you there.

[Fei Miao]

Another way is to weight the parent leaf onto the subsrate with a pebble, make sure enough light reaches the plantet, the parent leaf will eventually melt away while the plantet takes root....

[vinz]

I trim away the parent leaf once it starts seriously melting as a precaution against excess NH3/NO3 in the tank.

[dinosaur]

Thank you all.
Just another point. How big should the plantet be before i plant it?
Yesterday saw one root.