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Scientific name	Hymenocallis littoralis
Common name	Spider lily
Temperature requirement	25-35 °C
Humidity	40-50%
Light	Direct/indirect light.
Watering	Water everyday &keep moist
Pests	Lily caterpillar
Pet friendliness	Toxic to pets and humans
Maximum plant height	90 cm
Potting mix	Potting soil/red soil/manure/perlite
Pot requirement	Good drainage&repot every 1-2 years
Nutrition	Apply manure for first 15 days and npk for next 15 days
Pruning & training	Remove dead & diseased leaves with sterile shears
Common color & season	White
Description	Water generously throughout the growing season, keeping the soil evenly moist. Cut back in winter, watering just enough to prevent the soil from drying out completely. Feed every 2 weeks in spring and summer with a balanced liquid fertilizer diluted by half. Division of bulbs. Separate offsets from the parent bulb in spring and pot them up. Water newly potted bulbs sparingly for the first month or until you see new growth. Pruning is the main factor that causes these spider lily to produce optimum flower spikes. The pruning method – the foliage needs to be totally trimmed from the neck of the bulb, leaving just the bulb exposed slightly above from the ground surface – very similar like cutting grass. Do take note not to damage the bulbs in the process. Eventually the new growth will appear with the flower spike first before the new leaves emerges. The other factor of the flower spike bloom appears usually takes place during a hot dry season of a drought – where it doesn’t receive any rain or water for weeks and when it is exposed to rain – these will explode with a strong new growth starting with these flower spikes.If you have planted these in a stable garden condition where these receive constant and stable watering, you may face a challenge where these may refuse to produce the flower spikes – pruning would be the best method to spark off the stress blooming for this garden condition.