Water Gardening: lotus run amok, 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
pcshuster I am in Louisville KY you should stop in and visit the place sometime I grow a lot of aquatics and odd tropicals and hardy tropical plants. I am just south of Louisville on Preston Hwy.

I would also be interested in a few of your lotus. But first how to deal with them. I am not completely sure how well this works as I have never had your problem but it maybe very helpful in your time of need. First you need a idiot I mean brave soul with a weedeater or a knife LOL. You need to cut off the unwanted plants slightly below the water. The larger the stems the better flowering stems are usually very thick. Once this is done you will see the stems bubbling this is actually drowning the plant. Now the next day or two you will see a whole lot of brand new leaves shoot up this is the plant in panic trying to get air it tries very hard to reach the surface so it only will take a few days and tons of new leaves will be up. So chop again you may have to do this a few times in a row. You will then see a dramatic decrease in lotus. You might be able to use a wire or something to cut the leaves faster using two people.