Bulbs: Clivias anyone?, 1 by Siggy

Siggy wrote:
The "spot where the roots emerge” is called the micropore. Clivia seeds are not hard, but they do have a tough leathery outer covering. When people remove the outer layer they do so only around the micropore. This greatly speeds up germination and increases the success rate. In nature very few Clivia seeds succeed. Some Clivia seed can be quite expensive. So anything to help the success is worth it.
Yes Clivia push out of their growing medium and often need to be pushed back in. Again in nature Clivia don't grow in regular soil. Their natural habitat is leaf litter. I've seen pictures of them in the wild, growing on top of rotting logs. Where I live if I were to grow them in soil they would rot. Their roots are
roots are somewhat like orchids.