Hi Blessed,
You wondered what its like to grow a tropical waterlily, this thread might be suitable place to mention it.
Photo shows well rooted and shooted tuber, ideal to continue to grow indoors, or plant out when pond waters are dawdling over 60°f. The tuber is about 2" long, ideal to start in warm sheltered spot, 6" deep
Being a single sprouted plant, its ideal for a flowering position, multiple sprouts on a tuber are likely to be self crowding, to choke themselves
Potting suggestions:
1) Any starter pot might be 6" wide, plain fertile dark loam soil
(Why start on small pot? well, if your climate is tricky, you might want to move precious start indoors, or in greenhouse in a hurry)
2) Wet dirt until it is smooth mud
3) Lob tuber in middle, label in pot
4) Forget about it until roots growing out of bottom of pot remind to pot it on (in about two weeks) Feel free to like small pot and be too lazy to pot it on, it will cope fine.
5) Pot on to anything like two gallon or bigger pot of nice luscious fertile mud. (If you are so inclined to push plant to sumptuous size and blooms)
6) Poke tomato spikes in once a month if you really have to double or triple blooms
(I don't know why, some folk like huge plants, blooms in masses, tsk)
7) Expect tuber to be blooming plant about 4 weeks after starting, given conditions it likes
Hope description is not overly technical
P.S. Tuber in photo is on way today, lol
Regards, andy
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