I hope this is the correct forum in which to post this question ......
I cannot remember if I am supposed to wait for my clivia to break the pot to transplant it, or if I should just go ahead and transplant it.
I seem to remember hearing that I should let it break the clay pot as the signal to pot it on to a bigger clay pot.
Do clivias need to be root bound to flower?
Thank you, kindly for your help with this.
Clivia 'Aztec Gold'
Mine blooms every spring and it is far from being root bound. It's also in a plastic pot so I hope I don't have to wait for it to break the pot...LOL
Threegardeners, Not to worry...they will break the plastic pot too! I had to divide mine last year when they split the 5gal. plastic pots!
Carol
I have divided mine many times over the 27 years that we have had it. I have never waited for it to break it's clay pot, but I am sure it was close to doing so. It is quite a job to cut it apart. Nothing delicate about this job. I am thinking of using the chain saw next time. But make sure you plant it back in a snug pot or it may not bloom the next year. I had a couple new divisions sulk until they filled up their new home with roots before blooming again. Patti
Thanks for all the help, everyone! I don't think I will be doing anything with Ms. Clivia, just yet.
Since it is a very young plant (3 or 4 years old?), and not sending out any offspring, I don't think it is old enough to repot, and certainly having only one plant means no dividing.
Also, it has yet to bloom (which leads me to believe that it is not sufficiently "root tight" to want to bloom for me). I think it might be getting close to throwing out some flowers ... next year maybe.
I am going to feed her well this summer, starve her all winter, and see if that "encourages" her to put on a show for me in the Spring when I start fert. again.
Thanks for all the helpful insight from your experiences, Patti! I love having excuses to borrow the neighbor's chain saw!!
Do they need cold/colder temps in the winter to set bud??
Maybe she would do better on the floor during the winter, as the concrete often gets pretty cold. I learned that the hard way with my poor anthurium. They do not like their feet to get cold.
Thanks, again! for all your help, everyone!
Mine live in a passive solar greenhouse that goes down into the low 40's most of the winter, but heats up on any sunny day into the 70's or 80's. They live on the brick floor, so there is some heat retention emitting from that at night. In the summer I take them outside and I make sure they don't get leaf burn by giving them too much sun. I do water them in the winter, but not a lot. until they start to spike when we give them more water. My original one which was small when we bought it, took at least 4 years to bloom. I bought a couple of little yellow ones two winters ago and they will be a while yet in producing a bloom, can't wait, but I will have to. Best with yours, but please know I only know what seems to work for me, which has probably been just dumb luck, as I got this long before I found DG. The pictures are from the first week in March this year. Patti
That sounds about right, Patti, for what I recall from learning about them from someone else years ago who grew them in a greenhouse. I don't think my greenhouse gets colder than 45ºF too often, if at all.
My GH does not have its own heat source, but draws heat directly from the house, so if I place things close to the front of the GH, furthest from the house, they get more chilled there at night. I keep a fan running in the top of the GH, pushing warm house air down, so the ambient air temp is fairly consistent throughout, unless it is super super windy.
I can't believe how much it grew in the past year. Here is a photo from last spring.
Yours look awesome there .... great vivid orange!!
That one looks super happy, but after seeing all your plants in your gh, I am not surprised. We use our GH to heat our house and like you have no real heat source except a wood stove pipe that runs through it before going back up a chimney. Waste heat is free! Patti
Thanks, Patti
Don't you just love those frigid SUNNY January days!! ^_^
I sometimes have to open the windows upstairs because it gets well over 90ºF up there.
Same here! But I am a little warmer than you in Buffalo. It is funny how those really cold clear days can generate so much heat for us while the those cloudy 40's ones are useless. We checked the amount of heat we could gain from this passive solar gh when we built the house in 1981 and the numbers for Nantucket were good. We burn wood which we bring down from Vt in a wood stove and only use the conventional heat when needed. Fuel cost here are higher than almost any place in the US, so having the GH has served us well, plus we love it for the plants. Now if I could just get my Epi's to love it more. We are about to empty the GH out for the summer until Oct. Dreaded job, but sort of fun to set up our outside space. Patti
I think I dread / hate the fall greenhouse shuffle trying to get everyone back in more than the struggle getting them all out!!
I think I stopped feeding my epis around August or September, then started feeding again in February. Not sure if it was that, or lucked out on the night temp lows.
I pretty much go blindly along ....
Did ya ever see this pic of an Oxy?? I want mine to look like that one!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=679456
