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When to replant indoor plants: 3 important points to remember in spring
25.01.2023 19:03
Updated: 13.04.2023 16:00
Every spring begins the same way for flower growers: they gut pots with indoor plants and transplant everything that has been sitting around for too long into new containers.
But besides the fact that spring is the most suitable time for transplantation, you need to remember three important things. Otherwise, the procedure can only do harm.
Agronomist, landscape designer, botanical artist, and art therapist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh told the online publication Belnovosti about this.
How often to replant
In any case, you need to address this issue if roots are sticking out of the soil or drainage holes.
Similar intervention is required if the plant roots are already cramped in the old pot.
Plants with rotting roots, damaged containers, growing in poor soil and pest attacks are urgently replanted.
In other cases, transplantation is carried out no more than once a year.
Moment one
When replanting, you need to choose a clay or ceramic pot, the diameter and height of which are 2 cm larger than the old one.
Moment two
It is necessary to replace the soil and drainage. Soil from the garden or vegetable garden is quite suitable, but it would be better to buy prepared soil taking into account the plant's requirements.
Moment three
Flowers are watered a few days before transplanting, but not before the procedure itself. After everything has passed, abundant watering is excluded. Moisture-loving plants are watered no earlier than the next day, and cacti - even after a week.
Fertilizing after transplantation is carried out after 1-1.5 months and after new leaves or shoots have grown.
If necessary, rotten roots are cut off and then the cut areas are treated with charcoal.
Only proper replanting of plants will benefit them, after which the flowers will delight you with lush flowering and healthy growth.
