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Help with "upset" water lilly
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Posted: Jul/12/2008 7:09 AM PST
Find my potted water lilly upset this morning. Grrrrrrrrrr!! Thinking a coon trampled around. No loss of fish, but the new young just purchased lilly is floating on the top with roots attached. Pot is floating around empty. No substance of potting soil or whatever to be found. I need HELP!! How do I replant it? What do I use? I just purchased these last Monday, so don't know much about them yet. Hope someone out there can help this newbie!! Thank you!! |
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Posted: Jul/12/2008 11:27 AM PST
Pot your water lily in topsoil or other heavy garden soil. Avoid potting soil or mixes with components that float easily, such as perlite, vermiculite, and peat. Now is the time to add aquatic plant fertilizer pellets. A new plant will likely be pot-ready, but one you overwintered may need some light pruning. In either case, remove any old leaves and thick, fleshy roots. Leave only emerging leaves and buds, and newer, thin roots. Plant the tuber against the side of the pot, with the growing tip pointed upward and angled about 45 degrees toward the center of the pot. Cover the soil with a layer of rock or pea gravel to keep the soil in the pot.Now you’re ready to place the plant in your pond. Water lilies need to be set so the base of the pot is 12-18 inches below the surface, allowing the leaves to float to the surface. If your pond is deeper than that, support the pot on concrete blocks, crates, or overturned pots so the plant is growing at the proper level. Lower the pot into the water at an angle to let trapped air escape more easily. Your fish will try to eat the roots so the gravel is importaint. |
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Posted: Jul/12/2008 5:29 PM PST
What I use is pretty good and looks nice in the pond. I use aquatic potting soil (because it does not float), usually available at Lowes or Home Depot. Once you rinse the mixture thoroughly just re-pot as you would most plants leaving the crown a bit above the soil. I tend to cover my plants with a nice earth tone river rock/gravel. Most important add a fertilizer tablet or two depending on the size of the pot and lily. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jul/13/2008 5:10 AM PST
Thank you for your help! It is looking good this morning. I also secured it better. Here is a picture of my little pond before I got the lilly. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Aug/30/2008 8:23 PM PST
 I have my lilys on a shelf deep so the leaves can float; but are you saying the plants need to be totally submerged 12-18"? Also, I have never gotten flowers-I fertilize, a sump pump fills pond, have fish, snails, plants, big rocks on bottom, filter, waterfall. Today I pulled out all the plants to look them over, the older plants had hardley any soil, tablespoon? so i repotted those, and fertilized everyone. Am I missing anything else? When do I need to transplant the plants? Do they like to be root bound? thanks
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Posted: Sep/03/2008 5:07 PM PST
My next door neighbour has her lillies in a pot of earth (held in by an old pair of stickings ) at the bottom of her pond and now they are doing so fantastic she has to cut lots of them away every month or they cover the whole pond . The leaves come right up to the top and in the winter they submerge again till next spring when they start again. She doesn't do anything to them and her pond is full of lilly flowers. When I got my pond she gave me a bif of her lilly root and now mine have about ten leaves floating on my pond and doing great. Do any of you have water hyacynths ??? I bought three today and my fish seem to be eating their roots arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
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Posted: Sep/13/2008 4:41 PM PST
I have water Hyacinths in both my pond and the slider turtle enclosure. their roots get picked at by the fish but it does not seem to hurt then at all. |
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Posted: Sep/18/2008 7:05 AM PST
i like potting medium for my water plants, you can get it at any garden cebter. the plants like it too. it doesn't cloud your water. i ahev two ponds that are combined total about 1300 gallons, they flow in and out of each other. the very best tip or thing that i have learned about watergardening is to take a lingerie bag and put lava rocks, the kind you use in a grill, in a place that gets a lot of water flow. my water had been crystal clear since i started this, even when other people are struggling with algae. |
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Posted: Sep/18/2008 7:07 AM PST
koi will eat your plants, i haven't had the same trouble with gold fish, which personally, i like better. |
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