Bonsai Bowl Lotus Seeds, Water Lily Flower Plant Seeds(10 Seeds)

None of the seed germinated. waste of money and time trying.

I'm no stranger to plants, aquatics, or aquatic plants. I've had literally hundreds of happy house plants and many aquariums and ponds full of plants, so while user error is possible, I think these are just weak/diseased seeds.Every one of my seeds sprouted and every one of them died quickly. The stems usually detached from the seeds before maturing, or browned in the middle leaving a stranded leaf, and the seeds always just kind of rotted. I tried in several different tanks and bowls and so far, each one sprouted, looked happy and healthy and promising, then promptly rotted and died. I've given them ample light too, knowing full and well that these are full-sun plants.It seems to me that these seeds came with some kind of disease that takes hold shortly after the plant starts to grow, and rots the seed out. Again, this is the same pattern in multiple containers with different temperatures, water parameters, and aquatic conditions, so it's hard to conclude it's anything but the seeds.

I had about 5 germinate in the pack despite all the seeds being exposed to the same conditions as the other, on the same window still. This package also does not come with any instructions so if you don't know what you are doing, you will need to research how to germinate on the internet.I simply placed the seeds in a medium sized glass cup filled about 3/4 way, 3 to a glass. Then I left them at the window still for about 5 days from which the first seed started showing a stalk coming out. You have to change the water once every day until you see roots coming out of the seed. Then you can move to a larger bowl. You take a smaller bowl filled with clay dirt and put it inside of the larger bowl. Put the germinated seeds with exposed lily stalks only slightly into the clay dirt. Then poor water into the large bowl until the water level is just above your secondary bowl. Once you start seeing more lilies pop up, you will need an oxygenator pump or oxygen producing plant at the bottom of the bowl in order to keep the water oxygenated.

The seeds came carefully packaged and already snipped for you to start sprouting. I'm excited to prep my water vase and get these little beauties on my deck. Will update with pictures later.

Only some of the seeds grew. It is a very slow project. In the end, it produced only tiny leaves and no flowers. I did follow the directions.

I put them in a glass of water to begin with but then finally read the directions stating they like warm water so I ended up just dropping them into my tank. After that, they've been sprouting. They are covered in a slim, which could be my fault, but I've been rinsing them off and plopping them back. I'm pleasantly surprised I got 8.

So I only put 5 out of 10 seeds in a clear cup of water. 2 out of 5 sprouted but the others got moldy? I cleaned the sprouted seeds with a water mixture with hydrogen peroxide. Threw away the other 3. No instructions but I keep mine in a sunny spot on the window sill. I also empty and put new water in the cup every 2-3 days. I’ve had them in water for more then a month but no growth! I would say take a chance but for me it’s not worth it!

I put these in water about six weeks ago to start sprouting them. Since I live in the Northwest and its winter, I'm sprouting them indoors with a red grow light to provide some "sun". I didn't know that you should sand the end of the seed to facilitate sprouting (no instructions provided) but it still didn't take a terribly long time for the earliest seed to show signs of growth. So far, all of my seeds have sprouted (Hooray!) and the earliest seed to sprout now has stems with leaf buds that are about 6 inches long. I've had to move them to a bigger container now to accommodate their growth and give them space. I watched some You Tube videos on growing tea cup lotus, and learned that you need to change the water every day because the seeds naturally get gunky, which has turned out to be true. I'll post an update as the process progresses. Crossing my fingers for some pretty blooms one of these days.