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Why clivia does not bloom and what to do with it
Clivia is an ornamental houseplant that blooms well under favorable conditions. If it has ceased to delight you with flowers, analyze your care for the plant. Perhaps the clivia is naughty due to inappropriate conditions.
Under good conditions, clivia throws out a peduncle, at the end of which there is an inflorescence of 10-12 bell-shaped flowers up to 8 cm in diameter. They are orange, cream, red and yellow in color. If it doesn’t, you may be doing something wrong.
Clivia does not bloom at low temperatures.
Clivia does not usually bloom if it is uncomfortable. There are several factors that influence this:
- too low ambient temperature;
- excessive or insufficient watering;
- improperly selected soil composition;
- frequent transplantation and rearrangement of the plant.
Caring for this flower requires more care than a lot of effort.
How to care for your clivia to bloom
There are several care recommendations that are especially important to follow if clivia is not blooming. This plant needs abundant watering from spring to autumn, as well as if the ambient temperature is above 20 degrees Celsius. In winter, the clivia should be watered carefully with a small amount of water, using a watering can with a fine spray.
The soil should be composed of sand, leafy earth and turf in a ratio of 1: 4: 8.
While the clivia is actively growing, it needs to be fertilized once a week. And before opening the flowers, you need to feed the plant with mineral fertilizers, while making sure that there is no excess nitrogen, which inhibits flowering.
You can transplant clivia only when it has faded. The plant has rather fragile roots, therefore, it is not touched without special need. The recommended transplant frequency for adult clivia is every four to five years.
Under these simple conditions, clivia will feel good.
What to do if clivia still does not bloom
There are a few more pitfalls that prevent clivia from making the owners happy with abundant flowering.
- Frequent rearrangements. Clivia doesn’t like to move from place to place. If, nevertheless, there is an urgent need to rearrange it, you should put the pot with the same side to the light as before.
- The pot is too big. The roots of the plant perfectly store moisture, so it does not need an excessive amount of soil. It is recommended that you only repot the clivia if the roots are already being forced out of the pot.
- Overfeeding with nitrogen. Such an oversight can be tolerated both with an inattentive choice of the composition of the fertilizer, and with improper dilution of top dressing.
Clivias bloom mainly in spring. If you prevent hypothermia of the plant in winter, on the eve of the stage of bud formation, then flowering is almost guaranteed.
See also: reproduction of Coleus