Clivia Summer Care Methods: This Is the Right Way to Grow Them

For many gardening enthusiasts, the high summer heat is simply a terrifying thing, and many plants end up dead without them even realizing it. When it comes to clivia, do you know how to care for it in summer?

Care Environment

In summer, the weather is extremely hot, so clivia enters a semi-dormant state. At this time, measures to prevent heatstroke and cool it down must be taken. Place it in a spot with half shade and half sun that is well ventilated. Normally, you can cool it down and keep it moist by spraying water on its leaves.

Watering

In summer, the temperature is especially high, so correspondingly, the evaporation rate is also especially high. Generally, you should water it once every morning, but the specifics still need to be determined by how dry or moist the potting soil is. Generally, you should follow the principle of watering thoroughly only after the soil has dried out. For watering, rainwater is the best.

Fertilizing

In summer, the weather is extremely hot and there is also especially lots of rain, so at this time you should stop fertilizing it, otherwise it may cause root rot.

Removing the Flower Stalk

For clivia, its normal flowering period is the time from New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, but in summer, its flower stalk will also grow out, and the flowers it produces will not be very good, and the flowering period is also especially short, so you should remove its flower stalk, otherwise it will affect its future flowering.

Preventing Pests

In summer, if ventilation is poor, clivia in its dormant period will suffer from scale insect infestation, so you should prevent and treat it promptly.