{"id":92,"date":"2018-01-07T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2018-01-21T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T11:26:47","slug":"how-to-harvest-and-divide-lotus-rhizomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/how-to-harvest-and-divide-lotus-rhizomes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to harvest and divide lotus rhizomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus is one of the most well known water plants, you can grow them in small and big pot, even in terrace or balcony without any problem.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/nelumbo01.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nVarious are flower colors and plant size, starting from plants that can grow up to 2 meter high below water level and small plants that can grow up to 20-30 centimeters high and grow in small pots.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/lotograndi.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/lotonani.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nBest time to divide lotus plants is the beginning of spring, just finished cold season, when the plants has got dry stems and leaves, and not yet started to grow.<br \/>\nCold season is necessary to grow new rhizome, where start with the new plant in spring.<br \/>\nIf grown in small pot like the ones in the movie and pictures is necessary transplant every year.<br \/>\nTo transplant and divide is necessary the pot with the plant to transplant, garden scissors, a hose for the water and lot of care to avoid rhizome broken.<br \/>\nPlace the pot with the plant on a raised surface, cut away all the dry leaves and stems.<br \/>\nRemove rot leaves and surface roots.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto01.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nRemove water in the pot and turn it backwards on a plain surface.<br \/>\nRemove the pot and the clod of soil with the lotus will be upside down on the work plan.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto02.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nUsing the hose rinse away the soil with the water, helping with hands if necessary, to remove all the possible soil.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto03.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nWhen everything is clean enough is possible harvest the rhizomes looking for the white part, that are the new rhizome.<br \/>\nThey must be cutted with the scissors after at least two knots of the rhizome, pay attention not to break the growing tips where will start the new plant.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto04.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nHarvested the good rhizomes throw away the old roots, dark and rot.<br \/>\nTo plant is enough use one only good rhizome, place it on the bottom of the empty pot, add some clay or muddy soil.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto05.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nBroke two or three pondtabbs on the just put soil and add some more soil.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto06.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nLabel the pot with the name of the variety inside or outside the pot.<br \/>\nAdd water to fill the pot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto07.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nThe pot prepared this way can be placed where you like waiting first warm days of spring, when the plant will start to grow and develop.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/img\/divisioneloto08.jpg\" alt=\"harvest and divide lotus rhizome\" vspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>\nTo have a good quantity of flowers is necessary fertilize placing two or three pondtabbs, depending on the size of the pot, each 15 days starting when the plant will develop the first raised leaves over the water.<br \/>\nIs necessary use fertilizer until the plant will grow, for about 2-3 months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZLlf2dLA99Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube Video tutorial for small lotus Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6lWIX78TynU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube Video tutorial for small lotus Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b-iYTqBEqEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube Video tutorial for large lotus Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PNFVYfFs_Ns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube Video tutorial for large lotus Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus is one of the most well known water plants, you can grow them in small and big pot, even in terrace or balcony without any problem. Various are flower colors and plant size, starting from plants that can grow up to 2 meter high below water level and small plants that can grow up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[45,44,42,43,46],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lotus","category-uncategorized","tag-cultivation","tag-lotus-grow","tag-lotus-plant","tag-lotus-rhizome","tag-nelumbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.waterplants.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}