 Hi everyone, our piece lily is blooming and I thought this would be the best opportunity to share some tips that I used to encourage my lily to bloom. Generally, the spasiphyllum blooms once a year during the growing season and this can be between spring and fall. In my experience, this piece lily always blooms in the summer for us. So for example, right now it's June and we have three blooms here. Of course, you can also do some things to encourage your plant to thrive and bloom. So let me share with you. The first very important thing for a piece lily to bloom is temperature. Remember, these plants come from tropical areas in South America and in South Asia. So they will thrive in warmer temperatures. Ideally, you want to keep her between 20 to 25 degrees Celsius and not lower than 18 degrees Celsius or so. So make sure that you keep your piece lily between these temperatures and also very important avoid cold drafts. So don't place your piece lily in front of a window that you're going to be opening and closing and cold drafts would come in because she really won't be happy there. Now one of the most important things for a piece lily to bloom is light. As you may know, the piece lily is a plant that will be okay in low light condition. This is why this beautiful plant is so popular as a house plant. It's because it can adapt to lower light conditions and it is also very easy to care for. However, if you put her in a room that has very low light conditions, this will prevent her from blooming. So you want to increase the light a little bit in order to have the ideal conditions for her to bloom. However, and this is a very big however, you don't want to provide too much sunlight to your piece lily because this will make her not happy and she will not bloom. If you give your piece lily too much direct sunlight, the leaves will burn or they will fade in color and I can assure you it will not bloom. So ideally we want to place our piece lily in a spot where she will receive bright but indirect sunlight. So avoid placing her in front of a south facing window. This will be too much direct sunlight for her and you can even scorch the leaves but do provide bright indirect sunlight. This is ideal for her to bloom. Just as we want to keep the leaves happy with the sunlight, we also want to keep the roots healthy and happy. And for this we need to look at the soil. The first thing we want to do is to keep the soil moist. Now not that here I'm saying moist but not super wet. I can tell you here in Berlin we get lots of sunlight in the summer so I usually water my piece lily every week or so but I always recommend that you check the soil before you water her. This is because you want to make sure that the soil dries out a little bit in between watering. So always before I water I put my finger inside the soil and I feel it just to make sure that it is drying out and if it is I water. I can also recommend that you use the bottom watering method so make sure that you have a pot with drainage holes. That way once you're finished with watering you can raise the pot up and the water will drain down through the drainage holes. And you make sure that the soil is moist but not wet. Another thing very important related to the soil is nutrition. And this is also very important when talking about flowers. Phosphorus and potassium are important for flowering but nitrogen is also very important for the foliage. So you can always use a fertilizer that is going to be a balanced fertilizer and if you're just starting with fertilization I would recommend that you stay with organic fertilizers and liquid fertilizers because these are way easier to control. This is also important because we want to prevent over fertilization. And I strongly recommend that you follow the instructions on your fertilizer and always observe your plant. That way you make sure that she's happy with the nutrients that you're providing her with. You can also provide a house plant potting mix that offers nutrition to your plant. For example for my peace lily I use a homemade house plant potting mix that I make here at home. And this one includes warm castings which is a very good source of nutrition for our plants. And I can tell you I am 100% sure that the warm castings in this potting mix really helped my peace lily bloom this year. And talking about potting mix I would strongly recommend that at the beginning of the growing season which is a little bit earlier than when spring starts, check your plant and see if she needs repotting. To do this I always check the drainage holes and if I see that the roots are coming out of the pot through the drainage holes this is a very good sign that my plant needs repotting. Another good sign is many new yellow leaves. Yellow leaves can be a cause of lack of space for the roots. This is in the case that you're not over watering your plant. And you can also check if the roots are on the surface of the potting mix. If you see this signs your plant may need repotting. So go ahead and do so so she has more space to grow and she feels more comfortable to bloom. Now another thing that we need to do and this is around the peace lily is to provide humidity. Remember that these plants come from the tropics so they like higher levels of humidity. You can actually have her in a room that is about 50% humidity and sometimes 60%. So in between 50 and 60% and I would strongly recommend that you avoid placing her close to an AC or a heating vent. Because the air there is really dry and you will start seeing that your leaves are going to start drying out and the edges are going to become dry, crispy and brown. So by all means avoid placing her close to a heating vent. In order to increase humidity you can place her close to a humidifier or on top of a humidity tray. Another thing that can help is placing peace lilies together or peace lilies with other tropical plants because they help each other with humidity levels. And the last tip that I can give you is that once you see that the flower is drying out it is better to prune it and the best way to do it is that you follow the stem all the way down to the base and then you cut from there. If you keep your peace lily happy and thriving another flower will grow from that same stem. Do you have any other tips for our peace lily to bloom? Be sure to comment below because I can assure you the whole community and myself will appreciate it. And as always, I will see you in the next one. Okay. Ciao!