How to tell dead from live lotus???

[LeeAnne151]

I pulled up last years lotus. The tubers are all white and firm and the roots are white but every upwards growing point which was a leaf last year is mushy and rotten. No leaves at all. I see tiny tiny sprouts coming from the base of the rotten stems where last year's leaves were. Not sure if they are going to be leaves or more tuber, they are white.

[tinkster]

I changed the monster lotus's pond over this year to a lily pond and I not only took out all the tubers but most of the dirt and what was left I chopped, stirred  up did everything to make sure I had no  viable tubers left in there and I see this week two lotus leafs sticking arial already.  It was pulverised in there and it still managed to come back so hopefully yours has something there that can bounce back. I believe they are much more destructable then we think.  I have a few growing out of the compost pile that were tubers or runners with no tips that I could see.


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