Tropicals & Tender Perennials: First time for Clivia to bloom, 0 by cicada

cicada wrote:
The 'old gal' finally bloomed. The clivia had been growing in a fairly small pot. Roots were coming out the top of it. I'd always heard that clivias needed to be potbound to bloom. It was as potbound as it could be, but was still not producing any blooms. I got tired of looking at the exposed roots and repotted it into a much larger pot. Lo and behold, a bloom stalk began to emerge within a month's time. Here are the first blooms produced by my clivia.