What to do if your clivia rots at the roots in summer? I'll teach you the correct way to handle it

Some flower lovers don't know what to do when their clivia rots at the roots in summer. Let's first understand why clivia is prone to root rot in summer. The optimal growing temperature for clivia is 5°C-25°C. In the hot and humid summer, if care is improper, root rot is extremely likely.

If a flower lover finds that their clivia has root rot, first knock the clivia with rotted roots out of the pot, remove the soil, cut off the rotted roots, wash the roots with clean water, then apply a 5‰ potassium permanganate aqueous solution to the rotted root areas (other disinfection methods can also be used, such as plant ash), then wrap all the leaves with newspaper or white paper, exposing the roots, and place the roots in the sun for half an hour.

After this treatment, if only a few roots of the clivia have rotted, it can be planted directly into sterilized nutrient soil, watered sparingly within half a month, and growth can recover after one month. If most of the roots have rotted, it should be planted in a pot filled with fine sand and placed in a cool, shaded place to encourage new roots to sprout. After about a month and a half, when new roots have grown, replace the nutrient soil and normal care and management can resume. Other media can also be used, such as perlite, sphagnum moss, etc.

In summer, in addition to taking measures such as shading, ventilation and cooling for clivia care, you should also apply no fertilizer or little nitrogen fertilizer, control watering, and water only when the soil is dry, and other key points for controlling plant growth.