Clivia leaves grow crooked in summer: 3 clever tricks to make the leaves neat, green and large

Keeping a clivia indoors can cultivate character, soothe the mind and enrich your spare time. Clivia normally blooms in winter, so when caring for it in summer, you need to take good care of its roots and leaves so that it blooms smoothly at the end of the year, with large, brightly colored flowers.

When caring for clivia in summer, the leaves are most prone to growing crooked, which looks unattractive! It also easily puts too much pressure on the flower scape, causing stuck scapes! Here are 3 little tricks to make clivia leaves grow neatly, green and large.

Plants always grow toward the light, so turn the pot direction every week

When caring for clivia, it is recommended to turn the pot direction every week, because plants always grow toward the light. If one side always faces the light, that side facing the light will grow too fast, while the other side will grow slowly. This creates a situation where one side is large and the other is small, asymmetrical and unattractive. By turning the direction regularly, this situation will not occur.

Cover the faster-growing side with aluminum foil

If you notice that one side of the clivia's leaves is much larger than the other, you can cover the larger side's leaves with aluminum foil to slow its growth, and it will gradually become the same size as the other side. This method is also very simple and practical!

If the gaps between the leaves are uneven and they lean this way and that, a cardboard frame is all you need to hold them in place

If the gaps between the clivia's leaves at home are uneven and they lean this way and that, you can make a cardboard frame yourself and place these leaves evenly into the slits of the cardboard. After about 10 to 20 days, remove the cardboard, and the leaves will continue to grow along their previous course. After this adjustment, they will be even and attractive.

When caring for clivia in summer, how do you make the leaves large and green? Here is what I'll share with everyone below!

If you want clivia leaves to be large and green, besides providing enough light, sufficient water and acidic soil, you also need to supplement enough nutrients!

Clivia is quite fond of fertilizer. When fertilizing clivia, use thin fertilizer frequently, especially in summer, when the weather is quite hot. Never fertilize clivia at noon. You can bury a few granules of slow-release compound fertilizer in the soil in the evening, and when you water the next morning, the nutrients will slowly seep in. Fertilize once or twice a month!

Also, when potting or repotting clivia, add plenty of organic base fertilizer to the potting soil, such as bone meal, rapeseed cake fertilizer, soybean cake fertilizer and so on, applying both internally and externally to supplement the nutrients clivia needs for growth, making its leaves large and green and its flowers red and vivid.