Can you water a Clivia with beer? What fertilizer is best for its care?
As everyone knows, the Clivia is a very delicate flowering plant, and only with careful care can you appreciate its unique beauty. Many people still have a lot of doubts about caring for Clivia, for example, most people care about what kind of fertilizer is best to use normally; in fact, fertilizing Clivia has its own rules! And some friends like to water Clivia with beer. Is it good to water Clivia with beer? Regarding these questions, the editor will analyze them one by one for everyone.
Is it good to water Clivia with beer
Clivia can be watered with beer. You can water it once a week, 100ml each time, and before watering you can dilute it with an appropriate amount of water. The main reason is that beer contains a large amount of carbon dioxide, and carbon dioxide is an indispensable substance for the metabolism of various plants and flowers; moreover, beer contains nutrients such as sugar, protein, amino acids and phosphate, which are beneficial to flower growth.
What fertilizer to use for growing Clivia
1. What kind of fertilizer to use in spring
Spring is its vigorous growth period, and it needs a relatively large amount of nutrients. When repotting it, you can mix already roasted sunflower seeds and charcoal together and use them as a base fertilizer. During the growth period, add a nitrogen-based fertilizer about once every 10 days; it should be sufficiently dilute and thin, which can help the growth of branches and leaves.
2. What kind of fertilizer to use in summer
Summer weather is very hot, and if the temperature is above 25 degrees Celsius, Clivia needs to stop being fertilized; if there is too much fertilizer, its fleshy roots will be burned. If it is placed in an area with a temperature below 25 degrees, you can add a very weak liquid fertilizer about once every 15 to 20 days, which can promote its growth and shorten its dormancy period.
3. What kind of fertilizer to use in autumn
Autumn is also its vigorous growth period, and it needs relatively more fertilizer. In addition to putting some fermented cake residue when repotting it, you should also give it fermented fishy water once every 15 days. If it is a relatively small seedling, in autumn nitrogen fertilizer should be the main focus, paired with a moderate amount of phosphorus and potassium elements, which can make its leaves more emerald green and its growth more robust. For adult Clivia of this kind, using phosphorus fertilizer with a little nitrogen fertilizer in autumn can prevent its flower scape from splitting and produce more seeds.
4. What kind of fertilizer to use in winter
In winter, you should give it more fertilizer. Some people think that winter is relatively cold, and even if you fertilize it, it has entered dormancy and cannot absorb it. But this is actually not the case; it needs a temperature of 15 to 25 degrees, and in winter many regions can reach this condition. This time is exactly its good period for shooting the scape, and it needs a lot of nutrients.
How to use foliar fertilizer on Clivia
When using foliar fertilizer on Clivia, it is generally diluted and sprayed.
Mix the fertilizer with water so that it fully dissolves, and filter out the impurities. Note that the concentration should be kept at 0.2%——0.5%, making a liquid fertilizer. Choose to fertilize when the temperature is relatively low and the humidity is relatively high, generally choosing the morning.
When spraying foliar fertilizer, be careful to spray evenly, and let the fertilizer remain on the leaf surface for about one hour, so that the tender leaves absorb it relatively quickly.
In fact, you can add some fungicide and insecticide when spraying.
How to tell if Clivia lacks fertilizer
1. Clivia lacks nitrogen fertilizer
When growing Clivia, if its plant shows poor development, very weak leaf growth, or even stagnant growth, and the lower leaves turn yellow and dry up, this is often Clivia lacking nitrogen fertilizer.
2. Clivia lacks phosphorus fertilizer
When growing Clivia, if poor flowering, dull flower color, or even delayed flowering appears, plus dark green leaves and very small fruits, this is often the Clivia plant lacking phosphorus fertilizer.
3. Clivia lacks potassium fertilizer
When growing Clivia, if the root system is not well developed, the plant is weak and small, the leaves turn yellow and have spots, and the flowers are also very small, this may be a lack of potassium fertilizer.
4. Clivia lacks iron element
When growing Clivia, the newly grown leaves appear yellow-white and severely lose green, which is often caused by iron deficiency. Curled and yellowing leaves may be due to iron deficiency and magnesium deficiency.
The Clivia has a tall, straight and beautiful plant shape, courteous like a gentleman, and at the same time its flowers are exquisite and beautiful; surely there are few people who do not love it! But behind a beautiful Clivia there is always a hardworking gardener!