Question
I have my plant, a Clivia, front of a north facing glass door. I water it in every two weeks. I started to use in the last three months a new all house- plant fertilizer. Every year it flowered beautifully, but this time the flowers didn't come out on a stalk. They stayed sitting on the base of the plant. What could be the problem, what I did wrong this time?
Thank you for your help.
Maria

Answer
Maria,

I have a clivia but I have not had this problem so I did some researcha nd this is the answer I found:

Mature plants should be exposed to a dormancy period (cool temperature-34 to 50 degrees F night and day and witholding water) for 4 weeks or if the day temperature warms up to 6 to 8 weeks. Shorter than that or no dormancy exposure at all and you run the risk of having a short stalk or no flower respectively. If your Clivia has undergone the required dormancy requirement, perhaps you may have insufficent potassium in the fertilizer regimen. Just to be on the safe side, use a balanced fertilizer.

Potassium is the 3rd # in fertilizers and your fertilizer should be equal numbers such as 10-10-10. Did you give your clivia a dormant period? It needs to be kept cooler than normal and dryer during the winter for at least a 2 month period.

I suggest that you check out this web site:
http://www.cliviasociety.org/

Good luck,
Darlene