Agree.. The leaves come and go as they will.I would just let it grow. This plant always "tricks" me into thinking it's not doing well but over time, I have found it really easy, just really sensitive to changes. Just cut back the leaves that are damaged and see what happens. I would be that it will grow healthy leaves unless other plants are suffering too.
It usually becomes a bulblet and sprouts(ime at least)
These are certainly possibilities in general for damaged lotus plants, but in this specific case the older leaves are damaged with no new leaf involvement at all. This pattern usually signifies a mobile nutrient deficiency.I disagree as some "melting" leaves in Nymphaea are rather common: 1-2 melting leaves surrounded by 20+ perfectly healthy ones. The ones that melt are either the oldest leaves on the plant or the youngest.
You can also achieve the same result by:
- slightly "folding" the stem
- trimming the roots
- too long exposure to air
- temperature change up or down
- replanting
I don't know, I have had a few and many have done this, just to grow back perfectly. I don't want to say you are wrong, and you are my plant mentor, but I have never not had this plant suffer unless, something else is suffering. I guess that may be hard to gather from this post but I have had transparent leaves for no reason, just to have it go away. The plant is so sensitive to change, but still robust enough to always come back, given everything else is right, for me to just leave it alone.I disagree as some "melting" leaves in Nymphaea are rather common: 1-2 melting leaves surrounded by 20+ perfectly healthy ones. The ones that melt are either the oldest leaves on the plant or the youngest.
You can also achieve the same result by:
- slightly "folding" the stem
- trimming the roots
- too long exposure to air
- temperature change up or down
- replanting