It's the perfect time to repot clivia in early autumn: is deep planting or shallow planting better?

As autumn arrives, many gardening enthusiasts are preparing to repot their clivia when the temperature is suitable, to promote better growth and flowering.

Clivia is mostly repotted in spring and autumn. Autumn repotting is best done when the temperature is around 25 degrees, roughly during the period from the end of September to early October. So when repotting, should clivia be planted deep or shallow? If this question is not clear, problems during subsequent care will be relatively serious.

Generally, clivia should be planted shallow rather than deep, meaning shallow planting is better

. Why? The reasons are as follows:

1. Better for growth

Clivia has fleshy roots. When planting, bury them shallowly in the soil about 1 cm below the surface of the potting soil. This gives good air permeability, and the soil around the roots has a high oxygen content, which is better for the clivia roots to carry out respiration, slowing the aging rate of old roots and speeding up the growth rate of new roots, thereby growing a well-developed root system that absorbs more nutrients and water, which benefits the plant's growth.

2. Roots are less prone to rotting

Because clivia's roots are fleshy roots, they rot easily when the potting soil is too wet, affecting the plant's growth. If planted too deep, after watering the moisture content in the soil is too high and does not evaporate easily, causing the clivia roots to be wrapped in wet mud for a long time, and thus the roots rot. If planted relatively shallow, after watering the water flows downward, the surface of the potting soil evaporates a large amount of water, which allows the soil around the roots to dry quickly, and the roots can grow more healthily.

3. Less prone to crown rot

If water accumulates at the center of the clivia's leaves, it easily rots. So during normal care of clivia, any water at the leaf center should be cleaned up promptly, and water splashed on the leaves should also be wiped clean, to avoid leaving spots that affect the clivia's ornamental value.

When planted too deep, watering easily gets water onto the leaf center, causing the leaf center to rot. Or even if you do not water the leaf center, because the leaf center is too close to the pot surface or has already been buried below the pot surface, water stains seep into the leaf center. With shallow planting, water is poured slowly from the edge of the pot, the leaf center does not get rained on, and so it is less prone to rotting.

The above are the three benefits of shallow planting for clivia, but when planting clivia do not plant it too shallow either, as the base will be unstable and easily wobble, affecting root growth.

In addition, planting too shallow may scorch the roots when the light is strong, or make watering hard to judge, causing roots very close to the potting soil surface to dry up from lack of water. It is also possible that planting too shallow burns the roots when fertilizing, causing yellow leaves, rotten leaves or the death of the whole plant. In short, planting clivia slightly shallow is sufficient.

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