{"id":9042,"date":"2011-04-14T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:34:13","slug":"repotting-giant-calla-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2011\/04\/repotting-giant-calla-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"Repotting a giant Calla Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/calla4.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">A large 14 inch giant clay pot had to be sacrificed, in order to repot a Calla Lily variety, which happens to be a tall growing strain from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbotanicalgarden.org\/\">Strybing Arboretum<\/a>, in San Fransisco. Calla&#8217;s are not hardy here in New England, so one must either winter the pots over in a cool cellar, a cold greenhouse ( as we did) or dig them up and allow them to become dormant, something this bulb plant doesn&#8217;t like. Most Calla&#8217;s available today are dwarf or small in stature, but this strain can grow 6 feet tall, if not taller, so I knew that I had to plant my plant in a large pot. Clearly, it was not large enough. So what can I do?<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/calla5.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">The inflorescence on this strain is very large, with some spathes measuring 11 inches across. It typically blooms in May for me, but this aggressive re potting event, may have damaged the inflorescences which are surely just beginning to form. The plant will still bloom this year, but most likely just a bit later. Once the giant rootball is repotted into a larger pot, it should fill that pot too. I thought about planting it in the ground of the greenhouse, but looking at the root system, I could only imagine how it might take off ( take over!), and digging out the plant in a few years would not be something that I would look forward to!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/calla6.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">First, I had to destroy to pot, since the root mass was so dense with two years of growth, that it actually adhered to the sides of the pottery, so out came the sledge hammer, and Joe enjoyed smashing the pot. Now that it has been extracted, I need to decide whether I am going to slice and dice the mother plant up, or keep it intact, and pot it into a much larger container? One thing is for certain, this new container will be plastic, for this plant was the heaviest container in the greenhouse, due the the weight of the root ball, they hold a lot of water!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/calla1.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/calla2copy.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/calla3.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large 14 inch giant clay pot had to be sacrificed, in order to repot a Calla Lily variety, which happens to be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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