Lotus seed full#

It is important not to file away the cream colored coating as you will damage the pulp underneath.

Once you have filed away the hard, brown coat, you will notice a cream colored coating. Hold the lotus seed with a pair of pliers and use a metal file to scratch off the hard, brown coating. You must scarify the seed as it cannot reproduce without being scarified. When you plant a lotus from seed, the first thing you will notice is the extremely hard covering the seed has. We can not guarantee lotus seed to be specific hybrid specimens. Hybridized lotus seeds are not an identical copy of the parent hybrid, only lotus tubers are the exact same parent hybrid.

Lotus seed full#

When you are able to take your lotus outdoors, make sure it is in full sun. (If the weather is too cold outside in May, you may start your lotus indoors for a very brief period.) If you start your lotus in May, it will have plenty of time to mature and it will be able to survive the winter.

Start your lotus seeds in the first or second week of May. (That is coming from hybridizer, Perry Slocum, and we agree).

We have found that May is the best month for beginning lotus from seed in the Northern hemisphere. None of the lotus with names will be a perfect genetic representation of itself by seed and therefore should not be sold as a seed.

A Hybrid will have a name, like 'Decorated Lantern' or 'Princess Kennedy'.

No hybrid lotus is true genetically by seed, which is why you see them sold as tubers, (vegetative reproductions) NOT SEEDS!.

Species lotus and unnamed hybrids are the only Lotus that should be considered when growing from seed.

PLEASE NOTE: Only 2 species (Lutea or Nucifera) are true to name when grown from seed.