You will receive 18 healthy lotus seeds for your to grow them into lotus flowers. I will ship you the seeds in dry status. you just soak them in water, keeping the water level above the seed all the time. Picture one is in their day 3. Please keep your eye on the water level, keep adding water as the shoot grows taller & taller. Change water every day & you will see them sprout within days. I will send you the link with the package on how they grow them. I will packed 3 extra seeds in Holiday Season as my gift to you. Please check out this post from my customer that she show you step by step on how she propagate my seeds. https://www.mudsweatandtears.net/post/learning-about-lotus If this listing is no longer available, please check out our family shop that may still have availability. http://diysfgardening.etsy.com/ 18 Lotus Seeds