12+ Pcs Bonsai Bowl Lotus Seeds, Water Lily Flower Plant Seed Flowering Aquatic Fresh Garden Seeds for Pond Home Planting Ornamental(Mixed Color)

lotus seeds...20 received, water turn brown . I change water keep them clean, 10 seed floating will not submerge so those 10 must be dead seed. some people said few days sprouted....mine third day....nothing happening, I am still hoping they'll sprout.... aug.22. update....15 seeds has sprouted two has round leaf opened. i bought pond plant soil fabric pot , planted three each pot in pond. released 15 mosquito fish and 5 gold fish, i have not turn pump....they said lotus likes still water. ill update later as progress. changed 3 stars to 5.

Followed the vague instructions, even researched online. All the seeds died after growing their first true leaf. Also, the bowl is deceptive because the seeds need more depth to grow. The seeds take a long time to germinate. I thought they were not viable and almost threw them out.

They sprouted and did well for a while.

The water just turned murky - 3 times! I carefully pulled the plants out... they grew, but never bloomed. I followed the directions TO THE LETTER. I was so disappointed. The never bloomed. The water just got disgusting. I finally threw the lot out. It was a total waste of money.

Never bloom flowers. Have purchased before and never bloomed flowers. Will not buy again.

There were a couple of extra seeds, but I was satisfied with germination rate of the ones I have germinated so far. It has been about a week, I think. I noticed that one is very late in sprouting, compared to the others. I liked that the seeds were opened at the end, but it seems like it may affect viability of stored seeds. I tried this before and the plants died. I kept them in water on a window sill after there were leaves. This time, I will pot them up in heavy clay soil--barely pressing into the surface of the soil, and will fill the pot (no drainage holes) with water, and I will add "pond tablet" fertilizer, as directed I have seen several youtube videos. I have seen that a spoonful of balanced (like 10-10-10 fertilizer can be folded up in paper to make a "sachet" that will release the fertilizer over time. I may try that and compare to the pond tablets. I do not expect these to bloom this year, but I do expect them to provide lots of nasturtium-type leaves this summer in a patio pond. I recommend that anyone purchasing these seeds look to youtube and watch videos to learn about planting and care. If anyone got flowers in the first season, I would be amazed. These seeds are fascinating to watch develop. I do recommend changing g the water daily until they are planted in soil. update--one month--i have potted them in clay soil and put outside in small pond. Doing great. Not expecting flowers.

Most of the seeds opened, enjoyed the flowers

I gave it a 50/50 Star rating because I am not done with them yet! I felt like the directions sucked especially when it is printed so tiny, who can read that? I blew it up to make it readable and all it did was blur it, so I used my 72 years of experience to see if I could make the impossible possible and grow these "Bonsai Bowl Lotus Seeds" turn into beautiful flowers like they show! After reading many reviews and no one having any luck at growing these things, I knew it would be a challenge to pull this off, even for a person who has a green-thumb, like me! :) The proof is in the attached pictures. I still don't have any flowers, "yet" but I do have high hopes they will come in time. I will respond back, with pictures, when and IF they produce actual flowers. First you must think how these flowers are growing and in what condition. Not in a bowl on your table that's for sure! But they are grown in a pond, outside, in a warm climate! Well I don't live where it is warm 12 months out of the year, so I decided to try and reproduce the "pond" inside my home without it actually being a pond, which meant, NEVER changing the water, (if you had an actual pond outside "which I don't", you don't change your pond water outside do you? I assume you don't!) So I choose to crack the hard shell with a pair of pliers and pull the shell off in places, and I dropped 4 seeds into 2 Glass Bowls of water, because I bought the others flowers as well, and wanted to keep them apart. (I added (5) 16.9 fl. oz. of City Tap Water, to each bowl. So in the 1st set of pictures you will see how the seeds discolored the water. (Don't change the water when it gets really cloudy, like so many have done before, instead leave it alone and set it up in a sunny window location and wait.) More to come if Amazon lets me........