Spider Lily Plant Care & Bulbs Planting Guide! (Tips & Tricks)

Spider Lily Flowers are The Most Unqiue & distinctively Beatiful Flowers, That Even a Beginner can Grow Right At Home, I Grew Them From Bulbs In a 10″ Grow Bag. & In This Post, We WIll See What is The Step By Step Way To Grow Spider Lily Bulbs at Home, What’s Their Proper care, Etc. So Keep Reading This.

Growing Season?

The First & The Most Important Thing In Spider Lily Plant care Is Their Growing Season. Spider lily Plant is a Summers Flowering Plant, It’s Native To Tropical Regions, Grow Best in a Slightly Moist & Hot Environment.

Their Growing Season starts In The Early Springs & Goes all The Way To Starting Winters. Its a Perineal Plant, Means It Won’t Die In Winters, But Stops Growing. Yellow Leaves May Appear, But That’s Natural. In The Upcoming Springs, New Growth Will appear.

Just Keep It Under a Shade. It Likes a Temp. Range Of 20-30 Degree Celsius. The Best Growth Happens During This Range, Spider lily Plant Is Hardy & Can Bear A Little Up & Down. Just Don’t Disturb The Plant In WInters, Its The Resting Time Of Spider lily Plant.

How To Grow Spider Lily Bulbs Step By Step?

Now Lets Know How We can grow Spider Lily Plants From Bulbs At Home. Make Sure The season is RIght, You can Sow Their Bulbs In Springs. Choose very Mature Bulbs, You can Buy Them From Here.

Smaller Size Spider Lily Bulbs Takes Upto 2 Years To Produce Flowers, While Big Size Bulbs Usually Flower Within The First year. Choose a Well Draining & Soft Soil Media. Place The Bulbs on The Soil, Facing The Root Side Downwards.

Add Soil Around It. Water a Little, Don’t Make The Soil Wet. a 10″ Pot Is Good For a Single Mature Bulb.

After 35 Days…

Within a Few Days, You Will See The Tiny Sprout Coming Out of The Soil. It will Continue Growing Over The Summers. Just Don’t Water Too Much, Otherwise The Bulb Can Rot.

After 7 Months…

Wintin a Few Months, You Will See Your Plant Will Be Over The Whole Pot, Make Sure It Receives Sunlight Daily. In The Rainy Season, Or High Humidity Environment, Plant Will Grow a Long Stick From The Base, With alot Of Buds On It.

This Is The Flowering Stick, You Will See The Flowers Bloom day After Day On It. One Flower Blooms For 1-2 Days, Then It Dries Out. The Flower Have Beautiful White Color, With a slight Fragrance.

They Flower Just Once an year, & rarely Twice. Rainy Season Is Their Blooming Time, You have To Care The Plants Very Well In Order To Get Blooms On It.

The Best Soil Media?

One Of The Most Important Things in Spider lily Plant Care Is The Soil Media. Spider lily Plant Likes a Well Draining Soft & Porous Soil Media. It Can Grow Well In a Slightly Hard & Compact Mixture, But The Best Growth Won’t Happen.

The Soil Should be Very Fertile & Ph Neutral. You can SImply Make a Mixture At Home, Following This Guide. This Mixture is Great For Spider lily Plant, Soft Well Draining, & fertile.

Pot Size Requirement?

Spider lily Plant also Needs a Good Size Pot To produce The Flowers. Around a 10″ Pot Is Enough For a Single Plant. As The Bulbs Divide Under The Soil, You Will Need An Even Bigger Pot.

Choose a Grow bag, They Are porous Best For Drainage, Buy Them From Here. Originally They Are Grown In The ground, But You can Easiy Grow Them In Pots, If You Keep The Moisture Ideal & Space Enough.

Where To Place For Max Growth?

Another Most Important Thing in Spider lily Plant care Is Their Ideal Spot. its a Flower Producing Plant, Needs a Good Amount Of Sunlight. Without Sunlight, Plant Wont Grow Flowers, Leaf growth May happen, But Not The Budding & Flowering.

Spider lily Plant Likes Full Day of Direct Sunlight. Find A Spot For Spider lily Plant That recieves Minimum Of 3-4 Hours of Sunlight Daily. Lack Of Sunlight may cause yellow leaves, Slow growth, & No Flowering, So Be careful.

Which Fertilizer Works The Best?

You also Need To fertilize Your Spider lily Plant Well Enough For Flowering. A Good Fertilizer Promotes Buds & Flower On Spider Lily Plant, Use a fertilizer every Month during The Growing Season, Plant Feeds On fertilizer Nutrients & Make Flowers, Without Fertilizer Flowering Wont Happen Well.

You Can Use any Fertilizer, Like Compost. Or Even Vermicompost. They Work Really Well On This Plant. I have also Made a Fertilizer For Flowering Plants, Using Kitchen Base Ingredients. Guide on This Flower Booster Fertilizer is added Here. OtherWise Use vermicompost or Kitchen Waste Compost.

Common Problems!

Spider lily Plant Also Encounters Some Common Issues. Like yellow Leaves, Stem Rot & Root Rot. They all Can be Avoided With a Well Draining Soil Media, & Watering Less. Their Stem & Bulbs Both Hold Moisture, So If You Forget To Water, Plant Won’t face any Stress. Just Dont Water Over & Over.

Here Is a Guide On another Unqiue & Fragrant Flower Of Summers, Its Called Tuberose Plant. You can Grow It From Bulbs Just Like Spider lily Plant. Feel free To Follow This Guide.