Dying water lilies

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wolf22t

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As the title says i have two water lilies and they are both dying. From two flower buds on each it dropped to one on each and now there are none. There are two possible causes i think. Firstly the shade cloth covers the lilies for part of the day. The second is i just repotted them and they seem to have gotten worse since i did that. Please help me i would love to know why they are dying.Also the leaves that are going brown are covered with slime on all the brown bits of the leaf

Heres a picture before i put the shade up and before i changed their pots
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And here is what they look like now
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Any help would be appreciated
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They were beautiful!
Do you have them in pots and sunken, or are they planted directly into a substrate on the pond floor?

Nevermind I think I see them in pots, but with a gravel base.
Are they being fertilized in the pot's base?
 
They are in pots and sunken. I was told from the water garden i got them from to place them in pots without drain holes so thats what i did. They are basically in 15litre buckets for each lily. I was also told to put a small amount of blood and bone mixed with dynamic lifter at the bottom of the pot bellow the clean mud or soil
 
They need to be planted into large aquatic baskets in a heavy clay loam, but only at half their final depth to begin with. Gradually introduce them to deeper water as their leaves get established on the surface. Beware that generally, the cheaper water lilies are, the more vigorous they are. But even the most vigorous types will need a feed of slow release fertiliser or bonemeal pellets to get them going. They can be planted at any time from late spring onwards, as long as there is strong growth from a strong plant. Weaker specimens need to be nurtured on later in the season.

Keep them away from fountains and waterfalls as disturbed or flowing water upsets their growth.

I would look into the aquatic baskets...and place them on an upsidedown pot so that they aren't so deep so fast. It requires gradual depth introduction.
 
Ok well i guess i will have to do that, is there any fertilizer you would recommend that wont kill my fish. I dont really want to pay big bucks for an aquatic fertilizer tab or the likes
 
get the bonemeal pellets...they will not harm fish...
 
How much should i put for each plant, what size should the pot be and do u think i need holes or slits in it, do u think i overdid the fertilizer causing burns, the one plant didnt change depth at all so i dont think that is the cause, is bonemeal similar to blood and bone,

This is a pic illustrating where the plants are in relation to the waterfall and the fountain do u think it could be affecting it
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They hate current, so perhaps you may want to move them back where they were...
blood/bone is similar... that is fine
They need at least 5 hours a day of sun, and most importantly, they need a breathable pot. A pulp pot or something of the like...it looks like the ones they are in now are just regular plastic pots. Go to your pond or garden store and look for pulp pots or breathable aquatic pots and transplant them.
 
One thing that I have noticed with the variety of lilly you have there is that they really do not like the distubance of being repotted (but I also agree with the other folks in this thread that a porus pot of some sort (even if you just drill holes, and lots of them, into the pot you have).

At the times when I have had to repot my lilly of this type, it has taken it quite some time to recover and begin blooming again. One thing it took me a long time to understand with pond keeping was that the pots that the lillies and other water plants are in don't need to look "neat and tidy". Its what you see above the water that is most important. Distubance by too frequent repotting is somethign to be avoided. Attached is a pic from my pond of what I think is the same variety of lilly you have.

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