Moving plants from one pot to another
Questions tagged [repotting]
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Perlite causing tip burn in spider plant?
I've recently repotted my spider plant (chlorophytum comosum) to a slightly bigger pot with better drainage. I potted it in a mix of normal potting soil and perlite to aid drainage. I recently noticed that some of the tips in the lowest leaves have…
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Should I repot my mammillaria cactus?
I have this mammillaria hahniana:
I'm considering repotting to another container, which is more beautiful, more stable, wider and shallower. You don't see it but there is a drainage hole. Here it is:
My mammillaria is probably going to flower, as…
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Opuntia is slouching after repotting
About 24 hours ago I repotted my Opuntia (Specie ID is Subulata but pictures look a bit different than my plant). The plant is now slouching in a way akin to how it slouches when I neglect watering it for a period of 1-2 months, but it has been…
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Help! My Song of India (Dracaena reflexa) plant is dying!
Few weeks ago (probably 2-3), I was re-potting some of my plants. One of the patients was Song of India. The other two plants had severe root bounding. After re-potting them successfully, I started working on the Song of India. I tried the slow and…
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Do's and Don't's for re-potting a plant?
What are some important things to do and not to do when re-potting a plant?
I know it varies from plant to plant, but can anyone give me some general Do's and Don't?
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Finally got the rootball out, please diagnose the roots and health of this plant
Related question: Are these roots healthy or bad?
My Dracaena Reflexa Pleomele started having tiny yellow spots for some weeks. As a result, I was asked to take the rootball and inspect it. I took out the rootball, and here it is(since I don't know…
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Should I replant a watermelon that almost died when planted in the ground?
I started a watermelon in the ground as a small plant. It basically died in the ground, so I took it out. The roots had not really taken.
After a few weeks, however, I repotted it in a container just to see if it would come back. So it has and…
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How can I get clean soil for my sundew?
When I bought my Drosera Aliciae, I was told that I have to repot it in a clean soil - without any nutrients. Unfortunately, all gardening stores in my neighborhood sell only standard garden soil, that contains nutrients.
How can I get clean soil…
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Question Repotting Sansevieria (Mother-In-Law's Tounge)
I was repotting some Sansevieria (Mother-In-Law's Tongue) for my mother. I'm not very familiar with the plant, though, and I'm not sure how deep to repot it.
I repotted one bunch where the junction of the leaves at the base was right above the…
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How much soil to remove from root ball when repotting?
I have a plant that I think had a high salt content in the soil, likely from watering it with tap water instead of distilled water. To fix this, I followed someone's recommendation to re-pot the plant using new potting soil. However, there was lots…
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Dieffenbachia camilla too large pot: back to smaller pot?
I have a Dieffenbachia camilla, sometimes called 'Dumb Cane', that I got about two years ago. It seemed like it needed a new pot so I put it in one size larger, and it did very well: it started growing new leaves and looked healthy. Not knowing much…
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What pot should I use for my Chinese elm bonsai
I bought this Chinese Elm Bonsai yesterday and it came in a traditional glazed square pot. It was too small and the plant was very rootbound. So I repotted it in a larger pot but in all the pictures online I've seen of it its usually in flat wide…
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When to sever and repot a baby orchid?
I have an orchid that has produced a "baby" on a former flower spike. The baby orchid has 4 leaves (2 small, 2 medium), and some nice & healthy-looking aerial roots. The roots are all growing perpendicular to the direction that the leaves are…
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How can I save my tangerine tree after repotting and leaves curling?
I have a 10 year old tangerine tree.
It put on a ton of new leafy growth this summer when I had it outside, but I pruned a lot of the branches to make it look more uniform.
It was in a pretty big pot and I wanted it to look more like a proper…
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Moving hortensia from a too-small pot into plain Earth in autumn?
It is beginning of September in central Europe and I have an hotensia (Hydrangea) which is currently not flowering. It barely survived the last winter, but I am happy that it came back with many leaves which look healthy. The hotensia grew quite a…
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