They're best kept rootbound. Only repot it if it's drying out quicker then you can keep up watering. My clivia actually broke it's pot before I repotted it.

I'm sitting down one night reading when I hear a loud startling pop. I start looking all around trying to figure out where the noise came from. The next morning when I go to admire my plants, I notice the clivias terra cotta pot broken down the middle. The pressure from all the roots inside the pot caused it to burst.

My plant blooms every year and I never withhold water or do anything special to make it bloom. I just always keep it snug in it's pot and water whenever the pot starts to feel light.

Thanks. Mine has only bloomed once in all the years I've had it. I grew it from a tiny little raggedy piece that was being thrown away at the garden center I worked at. It was gorgeous until I moved to Gainesville and snails and root rot almost destroyed it completely. I have one blooming size plant and one almost bloom size in one container, and two smaller ones in 1-gallon pots.

I need to repot the big ones because they are literally growing in a washing bucket. I was so broke when it almost died that I could only afford that $2 bucket from Family Dollar to plant it in, because I had to buy orchid bark for it, and I was flat broke. I want a prettier pot for it. I have one that would keep it rootbound, but I don't want to repot it at the wrong time.

It's been inside all summer, because there wasn't enough shade to put it outside. I'll probably try to put it back outside so it can get some cool nights since I have some shade now. I usually have it outside until it gets too cold, and don't water it, but don't try to keep it from getting rained on either. I just didn't fertilize it enough this summer. I had so much else on my mind.

Mine is potted in miracle grow I believe. Though I think there's mostly just roots in the pot now, barely any soil left.

I potted it in an ugly plastic growers pot that I had on hand, only an inch wider then the terra cotta pot it burst because I figure it will just burst a Terra Cotta again anyway and it was drying way too fast for me in the terra cotta.

The plastic pot is dropped inside a wider decorative pot that also serves as a saucer/catch pot ,water reservoir, but it sucks up any water that drains into the catch pot back up right away so it's not like it sits in water for long or anything. The plastic is now bent out of shape from all the roots inside.

I tried giving it a dry treatment once after reading it recommended online so often. The plant lost half it's leaves and for the first time ever didn't flower during winter. Never did that again. But hey it must work for others since it's recommend so often. Maybe my plant is just weird.

I was gifted few years ago two clivia plants, one was small and in bad shape and I put it in a clay pot and blooms every year.

The other one had two beautiful plants also in a clay pot, it has been in the same container and soil since I got it and it always bloom.

I keep them in the north side of the house that I have some shade, they only get rain water.

Silvia, I'm cursed as far as getting these to bloom. If I had more shade outside, maybe, but the way it is now, I can't seem to do it, but then, like I said, I haven't fertilized them well this summer.