Signs a Houseplant Needs Repotting 

Tracy Allen, You’re welcome and I’m glad the video helped! That’s great the plant is doing well!

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Kimmi Cannon, I'm glad the info is helpful! You're very welcome.

Ash 1749, you're very welcome. Thanks for watching. :)

Brittany Arnette, If the plant seems to be healthy and you aren't watering too often, you can keep it in the same pot. You did say the soil is sunken, though. How deep has it gone? You don't want it more than 1/2 an inch sunken. It will get too moist in there in the sunken air and can cause root rot. One thing you can do is repot inthe same size pot with fresh potting soil and at the right height in the pot.

Robert Thompson, glad the video is helpful!

Michael Mallory Jr, Thanks for watching and your comments. I will soon be doing more videos on repotting, so stay tuned. As part of it, I'll be discussing soil choice.

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@@deandred712, It's never too late for your houseplants! :) Here is a video on soil choice: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-59yB2w_rdqs.html And I cover the topic quite a bit in my repotting playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLCkPgo-m1DrH40bsYtxQvvoK7sYP6uyf7

Debergiac White, I have a video on potting into a mixed planter, but not one on what to do when the plants get big and how to separate them, so thanks for the idea. I've put it on my production schedule. :) For your planter, you'll need to take them out of the one pot and check out each plant's root system before you'll know what size pot to put each of them in individually. If you have a few sizes on hand that could work. You want pots that when you plant, you have a 2/3 plant to 1/3 pot ratio and 2/3 roots to 1/3 soil in the pot itself. You don't want to plant into too big of a pot, as that can cause root rot. Here are two videos' that will help with that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NXy8W8rz-Ec.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ohY6hnSn7Nc.html (There's a part 2 to this one). Let me know if you have anymore questions.

Erica Rothwell - Meditation and Mindfulness, Boston ferns like to be root bound--meaning they like to be packed into a pot. If the plant is still green and thriving, I wouldn't repot yet. One thing you can do to make sure that the plant grows well is to fertlize it monthly, except for in the winter months, with a well-balanced organic liquid food. When the plant begins to need watering very frequently and the leaves start to yellow and roots grow out of the pot alot, then it's time to repot. It may be into the same size pot, just with new soil, at that point, because, as mentioned, they like to grow in a tight space.

Haley Manuel-Goode, Thanks for watching. Yes, it also applies to vining plants. Pothos do well in small pots, but at some point they do need repotting. Also take a look at how many roots are in the pot. If it's crowded with roots, and there is more roots than soil in the pot, it's time to repot the pothos.

Synthetase2, This is referring to the overall mass of the plant-pot combo when you view it. It is a rough estimate when you look at the plant. The overall view that you see should be 2/3 plant to 1/3 pot. When you take this whole in visually, it does include the width and height of the pot and the plant.

I'm still unclear on what this means :/ For instance, what if I have a cactus I've had for awhile that is very skinny and stunted growth...it's seems like it was only growing in height and not girth, but then seems to have stopped growing altogether. I don't know if it is in the wrong size pot or not because of the weird ratio. Also, sometimes you can't see the rootd because it is a solid ceramic pot with no visibility to the roots system... or if a plant has a skinny trunk but is very leafy and full at the top, how do you know if it needs repotted?