{"id":122,"date":"2012-02-13T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=122"},"modified":"2012-01-13T12:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T17:12:35","slug":"re-potting-indoor-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/02\/13\/re-potting-indoor-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Potting Indoor Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sansevieria (snake plant) rarely needs re-potting<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The golden rule\u00a0for house plant care is to repot them once a year. Times of seasonal change signal the\u00a0best opportunity\u00a0for repotting most house plants. September starts a slowdown and March (late February)\u00a0a re-awakening period for your house plants. Most, but not all plants, should be re-potted in one of these periods.<\/div>\n
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Purchase a good “house plant” mix (soil-less media)\u00a0from a local garden shop. Brand is\u00a0unimportant,\u00a0although a really “cheap” mix under $3.00 a bag\u00a0 is suspicious from a quality standpoint.\u00a0The good mix should contain sphagnum peat moss, composted\u00a0bark, and\u00a0 perlite (or styrafoam). Some manufacturers add vermiculite for\u00a0improved moisture retention.\u00a0Specialty mixes should be purchased\u00a0 for cacti and for orchids.<\/div>\n
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Re-pot plant(s) into\u00a0the next larger-sized container (measured as pot diameter). For example, 4 ” plant would be shifted into a\u00a05″ pot or 10″ plant into a\u00a012″ pot. Pot may be clay, ceramic or plastic. It is easiest to maintain all your house plants in one\u00a0type of pot. You may choose to root and shoot prune to\u00a0keep the plant in the same container.<\/div>\n
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Partially fill the new pot with potting media. Pry the plant out of the old pot with a knife or thin screwdriver. Gently remove loose soil around the roots and place in a new pot. Slowly\u00a0work in the new potting soil around to edges. Loosely fill soil to almost the top of pot lip. Watering soil eliminates air pockets and settles the\u00a0media around roots. Add\u00a0additional soil as needed.<\/div>\n
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Finally, do not save unused potting soil more than six months. The “wetting agent” additive has lost its activity. Dispose of the soil\u00a0in a garden bed and purchase a\u00a0fresh potting mix.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The golden rule\u00a0for house plant care is to repot them once a year. Times of seasonal change signal the\u00a0best opportunity\u00a0for repotting most house plants. September starts a slowdown and March (late February)\u00a0a re-awakening period for your house plants. Most, but not all plants, should be re-potted in one of these periods. \u00a0 Purchase a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[637,846,843,847,601,729,849,630,756,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}