Winter is the dormant period of bowl lotus.After winter, the other parts of the bowl lotus plant will die slowly except lotus root.After it withered, it should be pruned, and the withered parts should be cut off.This can avoid them remaining on the plant to waste nutrients, affecting the lotus root winter.
1. Store in the room: Prepare a big vat, add some thin mud into the vat, then bury the lotus root in the thin mud, and add 15cm thick sandy soil above the thin mud.After that, put the vat in a place where the indoor temperature is 10 C, add water appropriately, so that the mud has been pasty.After the water evaporates, the water is replenished in time, so that a certain amount of water is kept in the water tank all the time.
2. Outdoor preservation: When preserving outdoors, it is necessary to bury the lotus root into the soil in the flowerpot.Then the top and bottom of the flowerpot are covered with a layer of plastic film respectively, and a layer of straw with a thickness of 3 cm is padded above and below the flowerpot respectively for cold protection.If the weather is very cold, it is necessary to increase the thickness of straw as appropriate to avoid freezing the lotus root in the pot.
In the second year, turn over the bowl of lotus.When turning the pot, keep the soil dry.First, take out the lotus root buried in the soil.Take the time to be careful to operate, do not hurt the buds on the lotus root.After taking out, the old soil should be disposed of, replaced with new mud, and then the lotus root can be planted in the new mud.
