I was a beginner when I did this but I didn't know. About a month and a half ago I repotted my Peace lily because it was root bound without knowing that it enjoyed being root bound. My peace lily came with a lot of blooms but then since it stopped blooming for some time I repotted it into a bigger pot as you can see in the picture. My question is when it begins to be root bound again, will it bloom again?
I repotted mine into a pot that many would consider too large for it. After it settled in for about 2 to 3 months, it began blooming again and has continued even though it isn't root bound.
I don't think being root bound has anything to do with blooming, although I've heard that when you pot up to a much larger pot, a plant will concentrae on filling the extra space with roots before concentrating on blooms. My thinking is that if any plant has the proper potting medium/soil, moisture, food, and air circulation it will be happy. A lot of plants do not bloom continuously, maybe your plant is just resting right now and storing energy for the next bloom cycle? I have a large Spathiphyllum 'Domino' (the variegated Peace Lily) that blooms sporadically throughout the year, more often if I remember to fertilize it. Sometimes when I feed my orchids I will use the bloom booster fertilizer (11-35-15) on the Peace Lily too, though I'm not the most attentive when it comes to fertilizing my plants.
This poor Peace Lily was crammed into a dark corner of my deck, and it looks a bit puny and droopy because of that. They don't like full, direct sun but it sure will be happier if I give it a little brighter light!
Many spathes have calendar periods that produce more prolific blooms, often in the summer, so it's not unusual for blooms to be prolific in some months and very sporadic in others. No plant actually prefers to be root bound. YOU may prefer that it remains root bound, because that condition sometimes produces certain desired effects through the stress tight roots creates (a greater tendency to bloom, slow growth, smaller leaves, shorter internodes ....), but the plant's perspective would be quite different. If Mother Nature thought plants grew better when they were root bound, she would have arranged for their roots to grow naturally in tight little balls or cubes, :-) but we know that's not the case. Read more here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1050729/?hl=myth
Best luck, LB.
Al
This message was edited Oct 9, 2010 2:56 PM
