looking for lotus tubers

I'm looking to trade for a couple lotus tubers for my sis in law. She doesn't care about names


I can trade these plants, and I have many many perennials and other plants if your interestd in something else other than what's listed.
I don't have any pond plants myself, I don't have a pond, she's planning on putting these in pots too.

below is a list of what I can trade

akebias rooted cuttings of silver bells and deep purple.
adeline brugmansia
shredded white brugmansia
daydreams brugmansia
bonnie jean brugmansia
Other rooted and cuttings from named varieties of brugmansias

variegated fire spike
variegated cup of gold vine solandra
manfreda macho mocho
aristolochia elegans
maple sugar hibiscus
tricolored stromanth
horsetail rush
mini horsetail rush
Variegated kiwi dormant vines, Actinidia kolomikta both male and female plants
variegated vanilla planifolia
variegated japanese butterburr petitsites

Lots of perennials, and other plants not listed here too.

Gingers:
hedychiums:
tai empress
kewense
pink v
ann bishop
pink flame
garderianum kahlii
elizabeth
dr. moy
kanes pink
augustifolium peach
brandi saito
Other gingers:
costus purple queen
costus speciosus variegata
alpinia zerumbet yu hwa
midnight ginger

I have other ginger varieties not listed here also.

A couple diff varieties of bananas



I'm working on rooting some new hibiscus I recently purchased from hibiscusplace.com. Looks like their going to root, I can trade these later on when their rooted,

I'll have 7 or 8 varieties, a few off the top of my head, gator magic, veronica todd, yoda, barry schluter, night mare , cherry cola a few others, valentine's day , merci beaucoup, heartbreak hotel,

Kathy Ann. have you foudn any yet?

If not let me know, If the weather stays fine for th enext week, I wil have some ready to ship to other folks I promised and stil have a few left.

we got hit with massive cold and frost so until I knwo the weather gonan be good, am waiting.

These tubers were orginally flown in from Japan.

No, haven't got any yet for her, I would love to trade for some, do you know the colors of the flowers so I can tell her? She has a pond, but not familiar with lotus plants, I hear the pads can get l2 to l8 inches around? what size pot would she need to get to grow a couple in?

thanks for your offer, just let me know what I can trade for them.

kathy

Kathy Ann....

best thign to do is when the tubers arrive take a look at them. You want a container that is at least about two to three inches longer on each end of the tuber.

depending on how high the temps get where you are at and how much rain ya get, you may want to go failrly deep. ya fil yoru pot with about 2/3 of garden soil. Not pottign soil and not all nice composted soil either. it needs to be like a clay/sandy loam type of soil.

After ya got your soil in then ya take your finger and make a shallow trench in it just a bit deeper than the tuber. Lay your tuber in with any shoots that sprouting facing upwards. Cover the tuber with the soil from the trench you made.

Fill the whoel rest of the pot up with water and get a coupel of them mosquito dunks and bust one up and put a few piece sof it in there.

bewarned now. The tubers will be washed but from travelign in the plastic when ya get them and open it they gonan smell. That the way they are. Make sure you use some cool water and re rinse the tubers again good before planting.

If your not gonan use decorative pots than I would not use less than a 3 gallon pot and one tuber per pot and make sure it has no holes in it.

WEll, thanks for all the info, I'll print this off and give it to her when we do our trade so she'll know how to plant them. Thanks. Just let me know when your ready to trade ok?

kathy

starlight did yo u mention what color the flower was on these?

Nope. I didn't. I wil have to see if I cna stil read the name tag and google it and can tell ya then.