Water Gardening: Check this out, 1 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
Hmmmm, When I've started them I just used a drimmel drill blade to the side of the seed or I'ved rubbed the seed on it's side back and forth on the driveway till I can see some white. I think I put mine out in Mid May and it took 2 years before I got a bloom. I just let the seeds float on top of very large water garden pot I had that had topsoil (don't use potting soil the little white pieces float). The seeds would sink on their own. They would then send up little leaves about the size of a silver dollar pancake. After the leaves that float on the water come the leaves that stick up out of the water appear.

Here is one I started from a pod that was in a friend's Christmas arrangement. She said the arrangement was over ten years old. You'll notice the bright glittery red paint still on the seed.

I saw your other thread and it is a lotus you have. You can go to http://www.victoria-adventure.org and look at the different lotus and waterlilies they have.

This message was edited Sep 4, 2006 9:03 PM