We bought a Cala Lilly about 4 years ago in bloom, took it home and potted it in a bigger pot and has never bloomed since. It does go dormant every winter and comes up in spring no problem, very healthy. I live in Seattle, zone 7-8ish and it gets a lot of sunlight (believe it or not) mostly from south and west. Does anyone know the prefered light/dark hours it will take to make this thing bloom? Should I give it a blooming fertilizer mix at some point. If I remember the flowers were yellow, perhaps the Mint Julip variety, but its been so long I cant be sure. The leaves are the medium green with clear/white spots. I am hopeful that it may bloom this year as it has more stalks than any year so far, with some stalks yielding two leaves.
Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

Dont know what Im doing just yet, hope this comes through lol Anyhow we replanted it at the same depth it was, maybe 3 inches. We have given it sporadic organic fertilizer but not much, usually just water. Should I give it some bloom fertilizer?
I was hoping there was a light/dark formula I could get so I can put it in the bathtub/dark at night for the set number of hours. We used some generic potting soil, unfertilized I believe. And yes it goes dormant in winter and comes up like blazes in spring. The pot is fairly small too, maybe only 10 inch.

I was wondering about the depth of the bulb
being planted.... I've read that if you plant a bulb too deep, what happens is... the bulb has stored energy, from the previous year... when it's time to go up to the top of the soil in the spring time, it uses "X" amount of energy to get there, and "Y" amount of energy to a flower going up...
But, if you've planted a bulb toooo deep, it takes the "X" amount of energy to get to the top, but because it's too deep, it then takes the "Y"
energy to get to the rest of the way to the top.
Thus, no flower.... the bulb may stay healthy enough to keep growing green leaves every year,
but not enough to flower...

That's only a guess???

I would also use some Alfalfa Meal if you can find some, it's a good organic product and good for flowering...
Also, a quick shot of something like a "Spray~n~Grow" or "Shultz Plus 10~50~10"
That will help with the flowering part...

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