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Message: [QUOTE="clm, post: 36738, member: 1168"] a one gallon pot is likely too small despite the fact you're just planting a seedling. They produce a lot more tubers than you think the first year. Mine last year produced quite a few leaves and when I hauled the pots up out of their winter home and out of curiosity emptied one to see if the plants had survived the winter, that one little seedling had produced 5 healthy tubers that had retreated to the very bottom of the pot for the winter. These were 5 gallon pots. You think 40.00 is expensive for a lotus plant......they're close to 100.00 here, which is why I've always gone the seed route. 8 seeds for 3.00 or one tuber for 100.00. No contest, lol. I've become quite a lotus nut and now have 6 pots of them. 2 pots of the native yellow lotus that I started from seed last year and I'm hopeful they will actually bloom for me this year and 4 pots of the sacred lotus that I started from seed this year. clm [/QUOTE]