Give your clivia a little of this every week and it will bloom beautifully with no diseases at all

Quite a few of you flower lovers grow clivia and spider plants at home, right? Clivia has wide, thick leaves that stay glossy green all year round, and it is even more beautiful when it blooms every year - nothing looks better placed in the living room. And the spider plant, as one of the most common foliage potted plants, is easy to grow, easily fills its pot, and can even purify indoor air. If you want to grow these two plants well, you need to rely on a few little tricks.

Recently, some older flower-loving friends left me messages saying that the clivia they grow blooms twice a year and has never suffered from "arrow clamping", and the same goes for the spider plants they grow - several pots a year, so many that the balcony can't hold them all. In the end, it is all because they gave them beer to drink.

Experienced flower lovers know that beer contains maltose and various other nutrients, and is also rich in many trace elements that plants need. For flowers like clivia, what they lack most is nitrogen fertilizer and phosphorus fertilizer. A lack of nutrients in clivia causes yellow leaves, dry tips, and even failure to bloom, or "arrow clamping" when it does bloom. Besides applying organic fertilizer regularly every month, watering clivia with a little beer every day is even better for its growth.

When watering clivia with beer, you must remember to dilute it. Some flower lovers, after reading the article, poured beer straight into the flowerpot without diluting it - this is the wrong way to do it. The correct method is:

Dilute the beer and water at a ratio of 1:50, then pour the prepared solution into a watering can. You can make your own spray bottle from a mineral water bottle, and water the soil in the clivia's pot once or twice a day. Keep watering clivia this way and you are guaranteed no yellow leaves, and it will bloom every year.

Besides watering plants with beer, you can also wipe plant leaves with diluted beer. Especially for plants like clivia with lush leaves, wiping with beer makes them even more glossy and emerald green. Spider plants, pothos, rubber trees, snake plants, lucky bamboo and other common household foliage plants can all have their leaves wiped with beer.

When caring for clivia, you should pay special attention to the use of fertilizer. You can use decomposed soybean cake, fermented yogurt, and the fish bones and chicken bones left over from daily meals to make nutrient-rich fertilizer. These flower fertilizers are far better than those on the market - rich in trace elements, easy to obtain, and cost less money. Growing flowers is really about cultivating the mind; if you have to spend a lot of money to grow flowers, then there is no need. I wonder if everyone still remembers the sky-high-priced clivia from years ago - hasn't it returned to normal now?

Source: Spider Plant Tieba, flower lover: Ye Xue OK

Growing habits of the spider plant: it likes a semi-shady environment. Of course, many flower lovers say that spider plants can be placed outside in full sun, and opinions differ, but it is best to give them some scattered light and absolutely avoid direct sunlight. Otherwise it will scorch the leaves. The suitable growing temperature for spider plants is 15-25°C; they grow fastest at 20-24°C and easily send out runners. So summer is the best time to care for spider plants.

What should you do if a spider plant gets yellow leaves?

There are two ways to solve yellow leaves on a spider plant. One is to cut them off directly from the base with scissors and let it grow again. This method is suitable for spring. The other method is more practical: fertilize with monopotassium phosphate. You can water with monopotassium phosphate several times a week, and with this treatment the leaves will "turn green again" in less than a month.

If you want to prevent yellow leaves, withered branches and black tips on spider plants, you should use more beer in your daily care. Watering spider plants with beer and wiping their leaves with beer both have good effects. Many flower lovers use this method very successfully - not only do their spider plants never get yellow leaves year after year, they even get them to bloom.