Tropical Water Lotus Plant

I watched a few videos before transplanting my lotus plant...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cSo26w2Pfo
https://www.liveaquaria.com/article/140/?aid=140
http://pond-passion.blogspot.com/2012/03/transplant-your-lotus-now.html

I was very excited to see "Pond Passion" blog on Blogger and felt instantly connected.  The fact of the matter is, this post was from 2012!  The same information, no matter what year it is, but there are no continuous posts.   

Since I started this blog, every single Thai person I've spoken with said, "What do you mean, you are doing it yourself?"  They all laughed at me for working so hard alone, and told me that Thai people don't tend their own gardens.   

The last post was about trying to clean out my Lotus plant.  I tried putting it into a pot located under a shade Bayan Tree, and I found out (with a lot of trial and error), it didn't like being in the shade most of the day.  I've tried other flowers, but the sun was too much for them.  I decided to clean out this pot, buy another plant, and repot it with what ever might still be actually growing in the shaded pot.  Then I set it up on the porch for sunshine and rain.  

The old style I tried:

  But after trying to follow directions in the videos, and attempting to clean the slime out, my new flowers were acting like the same.  Starting to shrivel up, made me take action for repotting.


I used the same pot, cleaned out the slime, and located it onto my front porch... where the sun shines all day long.  I think keeping the water to the top and allowing the sun to shine on it, will help it become healthy.


This photo is after four days of being re-potted.

Before adding water this morning, those baby sprouts were prevalent and growing.  The water covers the leaves now, but everything is healthy.  In fact, I should have taken a picture as soon as I was home from work today, because a flower was definitely open.  That makes me want to make sure you understand that Lotus flowers open in the morning and close every sunset. How romantic~