Tips For Dividing Your Waterlilies

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Have you noticed that leaves on your waterlilies are getting smaller in Rochester, Monroe County, New York (NY), or that they’re flowering less? If you answered yes, your waterlilies have become root bound and it’s time to divide them.

During the first year of planting waterlilies, the spread of the lily leaves only covers a small portion of your backyard pond.

The second year, you’ll notice there are more leaves, they are larger, and there are many flowers.
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The third or fourth year, you start noticing that the leaves are a little smaller and maybe there are a few less flowers. Another sign that it’s time to divide the waterlily, is when you try to fertilize the plants but can’t because the pot it’s too crowded.

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Dividing water lilies is simple and best done in the spring when the plant is coming out of dormancy and just beginning to grow – when you see the first small leaves reaching the surface. Acorn Ponds & Waterfalls can perform this task while do your spring pond cleaning service. To divide the water lily, take the pot out of the pond and dump the contents onto a sturdy work surface.

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With your fingers, feel along the tubers about four inches from the growth tip. This is where you will cut off the tuber with a sharp knife or hand pruners.

Don’t be surprised if the potted water lily you started with yields as many as 10 or 20 more water lily plants after you’re all done.

All this cutting and dividing will be hard on the plant and the new little plantlets will take a month or so to really start growing and flowering.

If you must divide in season, a good way around a full-blown division is to just cut some of the tubers from the pot, fill the holes with soil, fertilize, and cover with rocks.

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Whether you’re re-potting a new, potted waterlily or brand new plantlets from your dividing project, the ideal pot size is 16 inches. If that is not possible, then a 10-inch pot will do.

​The smaller the pot, the less space there is for the plant to grow, the less leaves and flowers you’ll see on the plant, and the sooner the plant will have to be divided and/or re-potted.

To re-pot a potted waterlily into a larger pot, remove the waterlily from the original pot, and place it into the new pot. Add enough soil to fill the pot, and fertilize according to label instructions. Cover the soil with gravel larger than the mouths of the fish in the pond to keep them from rooting in the soil.

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To pot a newly-divided or bare root waterlily, first fill 2/3 of the pot up with Aquascape Aquatic Planting Media or nutrient rich topsoil.

Make a hole for the water lily tuber close to the edge of the pot. Place the water lily tuber with the cut end next to the edge of the pot so the growth tip of the tuber has room to grow across the pot.

​Place a fertilizer tablet in front of the growth tip of each tuber. As a rule of thumb, place up to three tubers in an 8 to 10 inch pot and up to five tubers in a 16-inch pot. Water lilies should be divided after two full growing seasons or sooner if warranted.

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