Tiger Lotus growing too well

[martin_jones]

My Red Tiger Lotus has been growing really well and recently, all the new leaves are going to the surface, which I do not want. How can I prevent it from doing this?

Martin

[Ormarr]

According to http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_viewer.php?id=104,  remove the leaves that grow to the surface.

[Jeff1192]

According to http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_viewer.php?id=104,  remove the leaves that grow to the surface.

That definitely works. My tiger lotus was doing that for a while but I'd cut them as made the break for the surface and it eventually stopped.

Jeff

[dan2x38]

You have to train it prune them before they break water... it does work.

[Zoe]

As everyone else said, cut the leaves before they reach the surface.  Tiger Lotus has two types of leaves - the reaching leaves are meant to float on the surface, and shorter leaves that are meant to stay underwater. If you continue to trim the long leaves before they hit the surface, the plant sort of "gives up" and assumes it is too deep to reach water (sort of).

However, if you trim the leaves you'll never see it flower


Also keep the gravel clean and don't give it root tabs very often.