How to Repotting Plants in your Gardens?
When should you think about reporting?
The flower pot or window box are limited spaces which quickly become too small for plants which grow normally. Signs of plants suffering from lack of space are:
- the plant stops growing
- it catches disease easily
- its leaves become yellow
- the roots try to escape the pot
It may also be the fact that the pot is too small for the plant (it topples easily).
When to replant?
Spring is the best time as it is then that the plant starts to grow again. You should avoid doing so in Winter as this is when the plant rests. Repotting may also start the plant growing again.
Which pot to use?
You should choose the pot according to the plant – it should be proportional to the leaves. Don’t put a big fig plant in a small pot. Once potted, the plant shouldn’t wobble with the least bit of wind either. A clay pot will give better stability than a plastic one.
Choose a pot which is 4 or 5 centimetres wider than the previous one. It is best to use a new or cleaned and disinfected pot. In order to avoid water stagnation, check that the holes at the bottom of the pot aren’t blocked. If needed, make new holes.
Which compost to chose?
Chose your compost in accordance with your plant. An orchid will have different needs than a green interior plant or a cactus. Ready-made compost can be found in specialized shops.
How to report?
- Take the clod of soil out of the old pot. Be careful not to damage the roots – break the pot if necessary. Remove the soil on the surface of the clod.
- Cover the holes of the new pot with bits of pot on with stones to avoid the clay escaping. You could also place 2 or 3 centimetres of stones at the bottom to improve drainage.
- Position your plant in the centre of the new pot.
- Add the new compost between the clod and the walls of the pot with the help of a bit of wood, for example, in order to make it penetrate to the bottom of the pot and to compound it.
- Finish the reporting by a good watering. This will compound the soil and will integrate the clod better.
- Once this is done, put the plant where you want it.
Should you report a newly acquired plant?
Yes, because plants bought in garden centres or in DIY stores are often grown in mixtures containing pure or almost pure turf and are thus lacking in nutritive elements. More often than not they are sold in pots which are not big enough.
This operation of repotting plants in pot remains one of more important for the growth of houseplants. A restricted volume of ground and nutritive elements with the provision of the plants obliges you to wish to renew the substrate regularly of culture. As already explained granulometry play a significant role in the circulation of water in the ground. When this one is too large manures in suspension in water remain out of carried roots and the plant ceases gradually to develop.
Choose a New Container
You will always choose a new container, which it is about a pot, of one vat or of a pot, only one number higher than the old size. Thus a pothos cultivated since one year in a pot of 14 cm will be repotted in a pot of 15 cm or one large philodendron will pass from a vat of 30 cm diameter to a vat of 32 or still 34 cm diameter. If it is not nine, disinfect the pot by doing it to soak for example in a solution of potassium permanganate or inform diluted at 10%.
Moreover, think to humidify the pots out of the ground: when they are dehydrated they can quickly to absorb the water of the mound by breaking the hydraulic balance of the plant. Do not destroy your old pots or pots, you will need some perhaps during the year: to replace one broken pot for example.
Moreover, they can be useful for the propagation by cutting branches of the size of spring.
Repotting in Spring
The departure of the vegetation generally has a place in spring. Plants of apartment take again life and emit quickly of new ct roots starts–up. It is with this period that you must proceed to repotting of your plants. However, all the plants do not wish not an annual repotting.
Their roots, rather fragile, prefer to develop without frequent clashes and it is then preferable to change them pots every two years. One proceeds then one year on two with a surfacing (see further).
In spring, classify your plants in two categories (for example, with the assistance labels of colours), to know which are those which must be repotted and those which can wait the following year.
Prepare Repotting
The professionals use for work of repotting of the special tables covered with zinc plates or shelves hones some with an edge out of wood. In what concerns you, install you in a place where you will be able to work at ease while envisaging that you will inevitably make fall groundon the ground.
A broad board will serve you like a table of repotting. Lay out one then small ground heap on this board with a side of your new pots. Place in one box of the shards of pots or large gravels. forget not make soak pots and shards before using them.
Envisage also a long spatula out of wood or failing this out of metal to make to slip the ground into the pot, a hammer to break the pots and shears. In a jar out of glass, envisage also alcohol with 90° or formol. In a box, place coal of well-crushed wood. This last product has a power anti cryptogamic and disinfecting very effective. Do not forget pas de to mix it with the ground of culture certain plants (broméliacées, gloxinia) sensitive to the diseases assailing roots.
The proportion is variable for the various species, but in general, one only uses a few small pieces for
The ground of a pot of 16–18 cm diameter. Also layout in the vicinity: raffia, of the new tutors, possibly
small holds or stones who will be used as a cover on the ground large pots.
Repot and pot the small plants
Easily transportable plants are repotted on the table of repotting. Discharge them by tapping the edge pot on the board and while maintaining the plant the upside down. In general, the mound is detached at a stretch without difficulty.
It can, however, arrive, at some old plants, that roots adhere to the pot. When they succeeded to leave by the hole the bottom, one should not wound them while seeking with fair to leave the plant of force.
Proceed rather as follows:
after having a humidified mound, break the pot with the hammer.
On the other hand, if you must preserve it, make slip a blade of the knife all around the pot to detach the roots. The plant being now out of its pot, it is necessary to look at
