Pond Plants: How to pot and divide Hardy Water Lilies

In this pond plant video series we will show you how to prepare your pond lilies for spring. What size containers to use, the soil type, fertilizer tablets, and the 5 parts of a water lily plant. Hardy water lilies are amazing aquatic plants and a great addition to any water garden.

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[DiamondNotch]

Is there any danger to not potting a hardy lily and just allowing it to sit in the pond as it would in the wild?

[PondVlog]

@DiamondNotch If it is an earth bottom pond that would be perfect to plant it in the mud at a level it can grow. Remember most backyard ponds have liners at the bottom rather than soil so that is often not possible. Good Question, we have moved our youtube over to PondMegastore account if you want to see about 180 more videos on waterlilies and water gardening!

[apauln]

so much for the series... 1 video

1 question asked a year ago, no answer...

[PondVlog]

@apauln we have over 180 videos on a different account, check out PondMegastore as the youtube name. Thanks

[Hewhoisabove]

WHAT ABOUT SEEDS

[PondVlog]

@Hewhoisabove have not grown from seed but will have video from Mike Giles about seed this spring on our other youtube account, over 110 waterlily videos and counting at youtube pondmegastore channel

[PondVlog]

@PondVlog water. Notrients will cause rapid algae and damage the seedlings. Again seeds are a lot of work and you may get a batch of uglies. If you want a specific look tubers and rhizomes are the way to go.

[PondVlog]

@rustydog1236 you can lightly scratch lotus seed to get them to sprout. Since most all lotus (all but 2) are hybrids and not species the seed offspring are often dull, sometimes neverblooming lotus. You can have seed from the prettiest lotus or lily produce horrible ugly seed. Except for species they are not replicas of the parent for the most part. One problem you might have is too much nutrients with your see, you need totally clean water, change every few days with distilled

[rustydog1236]

@PondVlog How about Lotus seeds? I can get the seeds to sprout and produce roots and the first tiny Leaves, but I can't get them past that (they just die)(I follow what seems to be the standard directions on the web and in books). Perhaps you have some experience with lotus seeds you can share in the video too.

[PondVlog]

@rustydog1236 there is no setback when repotting, you dont damage the lily growth at all. You encourage more foliage and blooms right away.

[hirocaster]

it is good to know there's a lot of people that loves pond like me. :)