"Koi-lo" wrote in message
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"Wanda" wrote in message
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Sorry about the flood of messages. This should be the last.

I have four water lillies of different varieties in my pond. All but two
still have leaves & these aren't looking too healthy with brown spots
over
much of the leaves.

I'm not an Aussie so am not familiar with your climate. Can the lily
being going into it's winter dormancy phase?

No we're actually in the height of our summer, although this summer has been
unusually mild with temperatures that we would usually see in spring.

What did you fertilize it last?

a few days ago with some pond specific liquid fertiliser into the water,
after which an algae bloom began. I have fish & hornwort (floating member of
wort family) to deal with or compete with algae.

Does it need a repotting?

there aren't any roots coming out of the pot & the plant is still fairly
small so I doubt it.

Are there worms under the leaves or between the membrane of the leaves?

No.
My pond is around 8ft in diameter, on average 25cm deep. It's 50-70%
shaded
throughout much of the day with the most light exposure being during
morning
hours.

Lilies like as much sun as you can give them.

After placing the lillies in the position where they would receive the
least
direct light I moved them to a spot where they would receive the most due
to
the leaves dying off. Before the leaves started dying I did notice some
brown spotting on the leaves. I read somewhere this was due to a lack of
nutrients so added some non-phospherous fertiliser. This caused an algae
bloom & didn't seem to help the lillies at all.

What kind of fertilizer did you use? Spikes? A liquid in the water?
Lilies NEED phosphorous to bloom, among other things. Mine thrive with
Rose bush type fertilizer sticks (Jobe's here in the US) broken into 3rds
and pushed down deep into the soil of their pots.

Animal life in the pond include 4 standard goldfish, one lionhead
goldfish,
a handfull of minnows, four mystery snails & a couple of unknown snails.

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