How to prevent root rot in clivia? Two practical methods to teach you

Two methods to prevent root rot in clivia. If done well, you won't need to be so strict with the soil mix, because once the aeration is good, a rougher soil mix does no great harm.

1. Sun-dry the potting soil.

The drying process also sterilizes it. Then spray it moist again. I generally add vinegar essence to the water in the spray bottle to make it acidic (white vinegar is not recommended, because white vinegar always contains a bit of salt, and over time it is bad for the plants), because water in the north is relatively hard and alkaline. After spraying the potting soil moist, immediately dust on sulfur powder while stirring, and try to dust it evenly. Next, spray the clivia roots moist too and dust on a layer of sulfur powder, ready for planting. I have tried this method to prevent root rot again and again with success, and it is very effective. In addition, if you break off a flower scape and sprinkle on a little sulfur powder, the bleeding stops at once; when taking cuttings of flowers such as roses and gardenias, dipping them in sulfur powder first gives a very high survival rate.

2. Wash the flower pot clean

Roll a piece of cardboard into a paper tube one cm smaller than the diameter of the flower pot and put it into the pot. Because the paper tube is slightly smaller than the pot, a gap exists between the pot and the paper tube; fill this gap with expanded clay pellets. Then you can fill the paper tube with soil and plant the flower. I will skip mentioning things like putting charcoal in the bottom of the pot as a base layer. After planting the flower, slowly pull the paper tube out, and thus a breathable layer made of expanded clay pellets will appear between the pot and the potting soil. With this method you can use any pot you like; the difference in aeration effect between porcelain pots, plastic pots and clay pots and pots of other materials is no longer great, and it also saves clivia growers the trouble of not being able to buy clay pots. From now on, I suggest using porcelain pots or sand pots, so that the clivia is beautiful and the pot is beautiful too. That saves us who grow clivia from being laughed at as country bumpkins wearing a suit with cloth shoes.