I want to buy some lotus seeds that have red flowers ?
A – I do not know why, but very few nurseries sell lotus seeds, I guess they find it too much trouble. While I do sell lotus seeds, I do not guarantee them to be a certain Lotus or produce a certain flower color. When I collect the seeds I keep them in the same storage container so I don’t even know which is what when I package them. Since the Lotus flower has to be pollinated to produce seeds the only way to guarantee a true growing seed would be to pollinate the lotus by hand from the same type of Lotus and then protect the flower from cross pollination from another type of Lotus. This is a lot of work with no guarantee of success especially as I grow several types of Lotus. Instead all commercial growers of Lotus use vegetative means to produce new Lotus, they dig up the lotus roots in the early spring and divide them to start a new plant as this is the only way we can be sure of what we are getting. So while I might have seeds from a Ms Perry Slocum I do not know if the seeds will
