What fertilizer is generally better for clivia?
Clivia is a plant that both blooms and is grown for its foliage. This means we need to choose fertilizer according to its habits: when it blooms, use fertilizer for blooming. When it grows leaves, use fertilizer for leaf growth. Let me explain briefly.
When clivia is not blooming, it is mainly grown for its foliage. Thick, fleshy leaves and deep leaf veins are what make it a fine specimen, so we need to choose fertilizer according to its needs. In the growing season, if you want good leaf veins and thick, fleshy leaves, you should apply fertilizer mainly based on nitrogen and potassium. Nitrogen fertilizer grows leaves, potassium fertilizer thickens the leaves, that is the idea. For ordinary home growing, you can ferment fertilizer yourself. After oil crops are fermented, they become a very good nitrogen-potassium fertilizer. We can put common things like soybeans, peanuts, sesame, soybean cake and peanut cake into a sealed container to ferment. Once fermented, it can be diluted with water and used to water the plants, which is very beneficial for clivia leaf growth. This fertilizer is not likely to burn the flowers even if used in large amounts. Of course, you can also choose a special fertilizer based mainly on nitrogen and potassium. These are also sold on the market, and you can look at the outer packaging, which clearly states the content and dosage instructions.
The flowering period of clivia generally begins after autumn. At this time we should start applying fertilizer mainly based on phosphorus and potassium. Phosphorus fertilizer promotes more blooming and earlier maturity and emergence of the flower scape, while potassium fertilizer makes the leaves thick and fleshy and the root system strong. When blooming, this prevents excessive nutrient consumption that would cause leaf wilting and poor plant nutrition. At this time we can choose potassium dihydrogen phosphate. Most flowers use this. It is also sold on the market. The price is not very expensive.
The process of fertilizing clivia is roughly like this. You can choose according to what Xiaoqi said. Whether you ferment it yourself or buy a finished product, both are fine.
What fertilizer is generally used for clivia? No need to be so troublesome. As long as you have bone meal at home, then just use a little compound fertilizer bought from the agricultural supply market. There is no need to specially buy any high-end fertilizer. Those are all fake things. At most, use a little nutrient solution to water the flowers. Diluted leftover beer from home also makes them grow vigorously. With so many useful things, why are you still looking for fertilizer?
Look at my fertilizer, an organic compound fertilizer. The price is 1.2 yuan per jin, easy to use and not expensive. We only choose the right one, not the expensive one. I discovered this fertilizer when I was browsing an agricultural supply store. When I picked it up and looked at it, I thought it was good and bought ten jin. After experimenting with growing flowers, the effect was especially good. With it, clivia leaves grow fast and it loves to bloom. Other flowers also respond especially well to it. It is safe to use and does not burn the flowers.
Look at the flowers my clivia has bloomed, this is the effect of using this fertilizer. Clivia does not need any special good fertilizer. You can use bone meal as a base fertilizer, and you can also put a small piece of pork fat at the bottom of the pot. This can all make it grow vigorously and bloom more. I used to grow clivia with pig manure plus bone meal, and one scape once had forty flowers.
Good fertilizers are everywhere in life. To grow clivia well depends on daily management, and has nothing to do with buying fertilizer from a flower shop. For example, pig hoof shells can also be buried at the bottom of the pot as fertilizer. Natural fertilizers have better effects than other synthetic fertilizers.
If you want to save trouble and effort, flower shops sell Huawang nutrient solution. This promotes growth and urges flowering. There are general-purpose and special-purpose types that you can buy to water the flowers. I have also used a Longcheng Huasheng nutrient solution with very good results. Now I basically use natural fertilizers, so the soil containing humus will improve. Using chemical synthetic fertilizers will make the soil compact. Usually, the water from washing meat and washing rice are both good fertilizers. If you still think this is not good, you can buy Aolv slow-release fertilizer. One application of this lasts half a year. There are several different numbers with different effects, some promote growth and some promote flowering. This one is more expensive and is currently a widely used fertilizer. It can be bought at any flower market.