A clivia grown for 5 years never bloomed, and when it was dug out, it turned out there was not a bit of soil around the roots

Anyone who has grown clivia knows that clivia is not easy to grow, and its growth rate is extremely slow, and to get it to bloom, it takes at least 5 years. But some growers still fail to get a 5-year-old clivia to bloom. After asking expert growers for advice many times, they discovered the problem was in the roots. This was only discovered after taking the clivia out of the flowerpot: it turned out there was not a bit of soil around the clivia's roots, which left the grower not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

In this clivia grown by the grower, its leaves went from 3-5 leaves at the beginning to 20 leaves now, and the plant also looks very robust, with thick, glossy leaves. But the only shortcoming was that it would not bloom. After receiving guidance from an expert, the grower found where the problem was: this clivia had been grown for 5 years, yet the flowerpot had never been changed, because the grower thought it did not matter much.

The grower thought changing the pot was rather troublesome, and seeing that the clivia was growing so robustly, decided to be lazy. Unexpectedly, it was precisely because of this laziness that the clivia grew like this. When the grower saw the densely packed root system and not a trace of soil, the grower understood instantly: the daily nutrients had all been absorbed by the roots, which was what made the roots so thick and strong. A clivia like this would definitely not bloom.

The grower quickly cut off the clivia's weak roots and rotten roots, then soaked it in a potassium permanganate solution for 15 minutes, let it dry for later use, prepared a larger flowerpot, mixed some new nutrient soil, then cut off the old leaves at the lower part of the clivia plant and repotted it, placing it in a cool, ventilated place.

About three months later, according to the grower, the flower scape of the clivia had already emerged. Finally, the editor reminds growers here that growing flowers does not allow laziness: water when it is time to water, change the pot when it is time to change the pot, fertilize when it is time to fertilize. Not one of these can be skipped, otherwise the flowers will develop all kinds of problems, and in the end, all that will be left is an empty flowerpot.