Pot drainage

[rafique]

common orange clivia is available in 250 Rs per plant from Lahore.

Size of plant? The one i mentioned was a mature plant.

I doubt it was the price of bulb having few leaves.

[Hamad Ahmed Kisana]

yes farhan bhai mature plant which bloomed for me. in fact all importers in Pakistan bring plants with green leaves and ready to bloom but according to umar khan sb and other senior members after first time blooming they wait for 3 to 4 years for next bloom.

[Munir]

So, what is the best arrangement? From where to get a reasonably well-performing bulb? Or is this the best we can achieve in our environment? I am keen to get this bulb/plant.

[Tahir Khan]

common orange clivia is available in 250 Rs per plant from Lahore.

Size of plant? The one i mentioned was a mature plant.

Yes it is an offset of a mature plant.

[Tahir Khan]

So, what is the best arrangement? From where to get a reasonably well-performing bulb? Or is this the best we can achieve in our environment? I am keen to get this bulb/plant.

Sir it needs an environment similar to Eucharis Amazonica..High humidity, shade and moderate watering with loose soil with good drainage, mature plants are available sometimes in Peshawar mor nurseries, you have to search for them.

[Farhan Ahmed]

The one i saw was bigger than any in Sir Heinie's pictures

[Munir]

So this comes on my Search list; any one finding earlier may please help.

[Heinie]

I have an idea that the Clivias you buy are imported from Europe and that they are what is known as Belgium Hybrids. These plants are bred to flower in 2.5 to 3 years. The customers only buy plants in flower and once the flowers drop the plant is thrown away because it was bred artificially to flower early and the plants just cannot perform as a well grown Clivia plant. Thay is why they do not flower every year.

When you receive my seeds you can grow your own plants. The biggest pot I have Clivia planted in is 35cm but then it is a mother plant with anything from 6 to 12 offsets in the same pot. We call that a specimen plant. It is beautiful to see these pots with 6 to 12 flower scapes. Some pots are so crowded that the plant roots break the pot.

This is a photo from 2007 of Big Momma before it was split up. After the split we had 12 plants.



This photo was when the plants were removed from the pot.


Here is a typical root ball of a well grown plant

[Tahir Khan]

Simply....WOW

What is the age of this plant and was it grown from seed ?

[Heinie]

The mother plant was about 8 years old at the time. When a offset is left attached to grow on the mother plant to mature and flower it grows much faster. The offset can flower in 2.5 to 3 years instead of 4 to 5 years. This mother plant was an offset I received from a friend. I has red flowers.

A rule of thumb is that a Clivia need 12 leaves to flower which is often correct. In that year it will grow two sets of leaves (4 leaves) and that is a very accurate fact.