Sontakka Flower: Sugandhi Plant Care & Flowering Season

The Sontakka flower is a white flowering perennial plant, which gives out a very intense fragrance when it flowers.

It is a great choice for growing in your home garden as it can be easily grown in containers.

How to take care of Sontakka Plant?

For Sontakka Plant Care, keep it in partial to full sunlight, potting soil should be fast draining yet be able to hold moisture for a good period of time. Feed it with fertilizer during its blooming season and cut off the stalk once the flowering season has passed.

The Sontakka flower is called White Ginger Lily in English, because of the identical-looking bulb to that of ginger.

Apart from this, it is known by many names:

Sugandhi Flower
Dolan Champa
Camia Flower

The Sontakka flower plant is a very easy-to-grow plant and needs to be grown under watch as they turn invasive if left to grow freely.

So, growing them in a pot is one way to ensure they won’t take up other plants’ space.

Today, I will walk you through everything on how to take care of the Sontakka plant.

How to Take Care of Sontakka Plant – The Complete Guide

When you are growing any plant in pots or any other container, you are growing it in artificial conditions, so you have to provide it with everything that mother earth would naturally provide it.

So, let’s see what Sontakka Plant requires to stay healthy and bless you with beautiful flowers.

Optimal Potting Soil For Sontakka Plant

The first and most important part of Sontakka Plant Care is its potting soil.

The potting soil you make for Sontakka needs to be fast draining but should also be able to hold moisture.

Garden Soil – 30%
Coco peat – 40% ( get it from here)
Vermicompost – 20% ( get good one like this)
Sand – 10%
Fungicide – 1 tbsp. ( SAAF)

Because the soil has a good amount of coco peat in it for better water retention (or say to hold moisture for a long time), you will need to add Fungicide as its bulb are very susceptible to fungus.

Take 1 tbsp. of SAAF fungicide (the best in the market), add it to the above mixture, and then mix all of them well.

Check this guide on – How to make Potting Soil At Home

Sunlight Requirement for Sugandhi Flower

In order to take care of Sontakka Plant, sunlight will also play an important role.

As Sontakka flower plant loves sunlight and it requires 5-6 hours of daylight (partial-direct).

But when you have just sown its bulb, it should be kept away from direct sunlight.

So, for the first 10-15 days keep it under shade, and then take it out during morning sunlight and again keep it under shade in the afternoon.

Due to this process, it will adapt to the sunlight, and then finally after 20-25 days, you can permanently move it to a position that receives direct sunlight.

During the summer season, keep it under shade during the afternoon.

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Water Routine

This plant requires a humid environment to grow optimally, for this you need to keep its soil moist of the time.

During summer seasons, you will need to make sure that the soil is evenly moist, otherwise, this plant will struggle to keep itself up.

Water it in the morning and even evening if required.

Always check if its soil is moist or not, if it is not, then water it just enough to make the soil moist.

Never flood it with water otherwise it will start to rot.

In winter, the water won’t evaporate like in summer so you won’t need that frequent watering
but still be cautious of its soil and try to keep it moist.

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Fertilizing Sontakka Flower Plant

Although the Sontakka flower plant is not a heavy feeder but a little food doesn’t cause problems. Does it?

So, adding vermicompost or cow dung in a month or so can really help in its proper growth and flowering.

Additionally, you can provide it with NPK (19:19:19) fertilizer during its flowering season when it requires nutrients the most.

Other than that, it will mostly be fine.

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Sontakka Plant Not Flowering

Sontakka Flowering Season ranges from Mid Summer – Fall ( May – October).

But there are a few reasons why your Sontakka plant won’t flower.

Not providing it enough sunlight

If you don’t provide this plant good amount of sunlight, it might look in great shape but won’t be able to flower. It requires a good amount of sunlight for that.

Keep it in some place where it can receive bright indirect sunlight all day long.

Requires Fertilizer

Another solution to this is DAP (Diammonium phosphate), which is high in nitrogen and phosphorus and helps in the flowering of the Sontakka plant.

With the help of a trowel, dig some soil near the roots of the plant carefully and sprinkle some DAP.

And water the soil immediately for it to dissolve the nutrients in the soil.

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