What about the rotten roots of the latest gentleman orchid?

Clivia root rot disease may occur throughout the year, but most of the summer incidence, mainly due to high temperature and humidity of the specific environment and lack of maintenance knowledge caused by the grower, clivia root rot of the main reasons and control measures are described as follows.

Rotting roots of Clivia sinensis caused by improper selection of flowerpot

Now some people in order to beautiful, clivia will be kept in porcelain pots, plastic pots or purple sand pots these poor permeability of the basin. After summer watering, due to the poor permeability of the basin, air circulation is difficult, and the respiration of the roots is blocked, resulting in rotten roots.

Clivia root rot caused by improper watering and fertilization

Although some people plant Clivia in the mud basin, but for fear of summer water shortage, lack of fertilizer, see the pot topsoil dry (in fact, the pot soil is still wet) watering, and often apply thick fertilizer, coupled with the rapid reproduction of some harmful bacteria in summer, it causes rotten roots.

How to prevent the root rot of Clivia sinensis?

Clivia is suitable for growth at 15~25 ℃ in vegetative growth settlement (seedling stage to pre-flowering stage) or reproductive growth stage (after flowering). Generally, the family cultivation of Clivia is lack of necessary environmental equipment, which should be based on the actual situation, in the summer of high temperature and high humidity, in addition to taking shade, ventilation, cooling and other measures, but also should control its growth (the plant will be in dormancy or semi-dormancy state, so it is conducive to the growth and development of other seasons) angle, strengthen the maintenance of roots in summer.

1. To raise Clivia, use a clay pot.

2. No fertilization or a small amount of thin liquid fertilizer in summer.

3. Control watering in summer and insist on not watering until it is dry. In order to prevent summer water from suffocating roots, large wooden boxes can be used to hold wet sawdust, and the flowerpots are buried (the pots are not watered). After that, check frequently, and then add water when the sawdust is dry.

First aid measures for root rot of Clivia sinensis

In case of accidental root rot, we should rescue it quickly. First of all, the rotting clivia root from the basin out, to the soil, cut off the orchid root, wash the root with water, then soak the orchid root with potassium permanganate aqueous solution, and then wrap all leaves with white paper, exposed roots, roots in the sun for half an hour, the use of ultraviolet rays to kill bacteria. After the above method treatment, if only a few roots of the diseased plant rot, can be directly planted into the sterilized nutrient soil, the first half of the month less watering, one and a half months after the recovery of growth; if more than half of the roots rot or all rot, it should be planted in a basin containing fine sand, placed in the shade to wait for its new roots to sprout, about 2 months after the new roots grow, replace the nutrient soil, can carry out normal management.