A Detailed Guide to Clivia Care Methods and Market Price Reference

Keeping a few suitable plants at home decorates the home while also helping to improve the home environment. What plants are more suitable for growing at home? Clivia may be a good choice. Below, let's look at Clivia care methods and prices.

[Clivia Care Methods]=

Clivia is suitable for soil rich in humus. This kind of soil has good air permeability, good water permeability, and is fertile and slightly acidic (PH6.5). Mixing about 20% sand grains into humus soil can help with root growth.

Many flowering plants are fond of fertilizer, but fertilizing fertilizer-loving flowers also needs a limit. Too much fertilizer will be bad for growth and may even cause root rot or scorching of the plant. Clivia also belongs to this type of plant, so fertilization must be done in appropriate amounts. Clivia has relatively well-developed fleshy roots, and the roots store a certain amount of water. Therefore, this flower is relatively drought-tolerant. However, even drought-tolerant flowers cannot be severely short of water. Especially in summer, when high temperatures are combined with dry air, do not forget to water promptly; otherwise, the roots and leaves of the flower will be damaged, which will prevent new leaves from sprouting and cause the original leaves to scorch. This not only affects flowering but may even cause the plant to die.

The most suitable growth temperature for Clivia is 15-25°C. Growth stops at 10°C, and frost damage occurs at 0°C. Therefore, in winter it must be kept warm and protected from freezing. After the flower stem emerges, maintaining around 18°C is advisable. If the temperature is too high, the leaves and flower scape will grow leggy, thin, and lanky, the flowers will be small and poor in quality, and the flowering period will be short; if the temperature is too low, the flower stem will be short and prone to "arrow clamping" and early flowering, affecting quality and thereby reducing ornamental value.

[Introduction to Clivia Varieties]

Clivia miniata

Clivia miniata is a perennial herb with white, unbranched roots. The leaves are neatly arranged in a fan shape and are evergreen. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, usually orange or red, with a yellow-white center. Of course, there are other color lines as well.

Clivia nobilis

The growth cycle of Clivia nobilis is extremely long, generally requiring about 10 years. The leaves of Clivia nobilis are hard and thick, ribbon-shaped, about 300-800 mm long and 25-50 mm wide, with very blunt leaf tips. The flowers generally number 20-26 and hang downward. The flower color is mostly dark orange, with green flower tips. Its fruit generally contains about 2 seeds, the pericarp is red, and the ripening period takes 9 months.

The height of Clivia gardenii generally reaches 80-130 mm. The leaves are bright green, 350-900 mm long and 25-60 mm wide, with pointed leaf tips. The flowering period is long, from late autumn to winter. The flower color is generally orange-red, and there are also other colors ranging from yellow to red, with a very obvious green flower tip. The flowers hang downward in an arc shape. Each berry contains 1-2 seeds, and the fruit takes 12-15 months to ripen.

[Clivia Prices]

Clivia is divided into many varieties. Clivia seedlings (5-30), flowering Clivia (50+), good-variety Clivia (for Clivia, it depends on the variety; better ones can cost several thousand, while ordinary prices are between 50 and 150, or higher). The price of Clivia is determined by its quality. To judge whether a Clivia is good or bad, you can identify it from four aspects: brightness, fineness, stiffness, and thickness.

1. Brightness refers to the degree of reflection on the leaf surface, in order: oily bright, bright, glossy, slightly glossy, not glossy.

2. Fineness refers to the degree of smoothness and fineness of the leaf surface, in order: fine, relatively fine, average fineness, relatively rough, rough.

3. Stiffness refers to the overall degree of resistance to bending of the leaf, or understood as the degree of preferring to break rather than bend, in order: strong, relatively strong, relatively weak, weak.

4. Thickness refers to the degree of thickness of the leaf flesh in cross-section. The smaller the difference in thickness between the leaf edge and the middle, the better, in order: 2.2 mm, 2 mm, 1.8 mm, 1.6 mm, 1.4 mm and below.

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