I've got one about the same size. I've been following directions on these two pages http://www.victoria-adventure.org/lotus/growing_from_seed.html --check about 2/3 of the way down the page to see the next step and about half way down this page: http://www.victoria-adventure.org/lotus/lotus_babs_growing_guidelines.html and I'm jealous; I had three good looking seeds, but only one sprouted.

Paula, You have to realize the sad, sickly plants stay home as "back up plants" in case hail or some other disaster strikes, and I only bring "the best ones" to the Spring Fling" to give away. Diane, Speaking of getting better, I hope your infected finger is improving, and I hope the infected finger isn't your green thumb! Leava, Doesn't it seem peculiar that we often talk about what a stress reliever gardening is but then we forget to mention all the times it brings more stress into our lives? lol I was just trying to provide a balanced view of gardening in case anyone here is laboring under the misguided belief that it is all fun and games. : ) Let's face it, none of us has a Martha Stewart type of estate with a staff of gardeners, landscapers, etc. We all live right here in the southern plains in the Real World! Dorothy, I second that suggestion! I always buy a bag of Epsom Salts in the springtime "just in case the pepper plants need it" but, really, they never need it....but I do! Gardening, like aging, is not for sissies, you said, and that is so very, very, very true. The cow incident happened to me 3 or 4 times and then by the time someone came to help me herd cows, they'd totally disappeared without a trace. Wily cows who are good at escaping from a pasture often seem to have an uncanny ability to put themselves up again. About the 4th or 5th time I saw cows that then disappeared before anyone could get there to help herd them, we figured out they were escaping from a downed fence at Ranch A about 1/2 mile from us as the crow flies (but much farther by road), traveling through Ranch B's pastures, coming through that ranch's broken water gap gate onto our property, and then traveling through our creek until they reached the woods beside the garden. If the cows hadn't left hoofprints on the creek bank one day, the whole neighborhood probably still would be thinking I was losing my mind and seeing imaginary cows. Rancher A fixed his fence, Rancher B fixed his water gap gate and I haven't been visited by an entire herd of cows since then, although plenty of other animals, including goats, have managed to find their way to my garden. If I didn't have a fence, needless to say, I wouldn't have a garden. I now know why country women's hair turns gray. Dawn

Yes, especially now that I have been able to germinate the green Sugar Apple Seeds that I was sent by two very nice women from this site. Andrew

The weather looks good for Northern VA for the next 12 days so you could probably get some more seed to germinate. It is late to be seeding now. You put down more seed than recommended so one problem you will prohably have is that certain areas have too much seed. The overseeding rate is 4-5 lb per 1000 square feet. You should have used 11-13.5 lb. If you had so much dead grass that it was more like a new lawn than an overseeding, you could have used more seed (rate for new lawns is 8-10 lb per K). You exceeded the heavy side of the new lawn rate. So I hesitate to recommend more seed. If certain areas bother you with bareness, you could add a little more seed. Or you could just leave it alone and see what happens. As the grass matures it will tiller and fill in. What is just a skinny little blade now will become a clump later (if it has space). I expect your problems will be with the new grass that is too thick.