How to transplant a flower in another pot

True lovers of indoor flowers are well aware of the role of annual plant transplants. This is fresh nutrition, room for roots, disease prevention. Beginners often underestimate the importance of this procedure. Or they’re doing it wrong, which is harmful instead of good.

How to transplant a flower into another pot? Now we will tell.

General recommendations

A flower is replanted when the lump of land is as dry as possible. Some sources recommend abundantly watering the plant before changing the dislocation. Well, yes, pour it. And then you will long and hard to pick out an earthen lump swollen from moisture from an old pot. Yes, even with the help of a knife, a hammer and a well-known mother.

Do not torment yourself and the plant, do not water it before planting. Indeed, in dry land it is much easier to make out all the old and diseased roots. And in the wet, they will merge with the overall healthy mass in color. And you’ll carry so much dirt that you’ll later transplant.

Choose a pot. If the flower is slightly raised above the surface of the soil. If roots are visible from the drainage hole or on the surface of the earth. If your pet is stunted. Then we must transplant it into a pot whose diameter is 1.5-3 cm larger than the old one.

We try to choose the material of the vessel as it was before the transplant. We pour new pots with boiling water. The old ones are thoroughly washed with a stiff brush in a solution of potassium permanganate or phytosporin.

Leave old soil

It depends on the condition of the flower and the soil itself. The flower shows signs of disease, lethargic, flimsy. The substrate smells unpleasantly of old age or mold, there is a white coating. These are signs that the soil needs to be replaced completely.

The flower feels great, but does not grow further. The soil has a pleasant smell of fresh earth, a characteristic color. So, we don’t change the soil, but just add it.

Drainage

For arranging drainage are well suited:

• broken shards
• expanded clay
• gravel
• sand
• granite or marble chips

And it is strictly forbidden to use when arranging drainage:

• eggshell
• limestone
• moss, peat

These materials are highly compressed and do not fulfill the function assigned to them.

Step Transplant

So. Prepared a new pot, knife or fork, drainage, some sand, water, gloves, a wooden stick, scissors. Pour drainage material into the container with a thickness of about 1-1.5 cm. In some more, see the recommendations for specific colors. Be sure to ensure that the pebbles cover the hole at the bottom of the pot, but do not plug it tightly. Leave it open - the substrate will spill out. Shut up - there will be nowhere to drain excess fluid.

On top we pour clean, calcined sand. About 0.5-0.8 cm. This is also part of the normal drainage system. Then we apply the soil. No more than 3 cm. Its composition must meet certain requirements. Which one - find out depending on which plant you are going to transplant.

Now we need to get the flower from the old container. Never pull on a plant! Try to pry the earthen ball with a fork. Putting the pot on its side, after prying it is easy to pull out the flower along with the soil as a whole. If you still managed to water the flower before transplanting, congratulations! You have earned moral hemorrhoids. Take a knife and pick it along the walls of the container. It is possible that the magic mention of some words of the great and mighty will help you.

If it doesn’t work, then take the flower with one hand so that the central stem lies between your middle and ring fingers. Second, hold the pot at the bottom. Turn the structure upside down and shake lightly. Not amenable to? Gently tap the container against the edge of the table. The whole earthball should fall into your hand. No way? So not today. Dry the soil until next time.

Now do not shake the soil lump, so as not to damage the roots. We again arm ourselves with a fork and remove the old shards and sand. Scissors cut off old or diseased roots. If you need a complete replacement of the substrate, then again with a fork carefully pick out the maximum part of it. And gently wash the roots or tuber in a solution of phytosporin or potassium permanganate.

Then we put the flower in the prepared new pot. With a wooden stick, we straighten the roots over the entire surface, evenly and gently. If the growth point is much lower than the level of the sides of the pot, then we take out the flower. Pour some more earth and try on the plant again. The point of growth at the level of the sides? Great.

Next, carefully pour soil to the roots of the flower in small handfuls. Gradually and from all sides. If necessary, we press with your fingers so that your pet does not hobble, as in the wind.

After a sufficient amount of soil has been poured, you can water the flower. After 2 hours to see, you may have to add a little more soil. If she sank a lot.

Now put the flower for a week at partial shade for a good survival rate. During this time, you can water it with any root stimulant or spray it with any anti-stress medication (epin, zircon).

How to transplant a flower if it is huge

It happens that a large plant requires a transplant or the pot is already gigantic. Where more? Nowhere. Such flowers do not transplant. You will drag out such a colossus - there is a high probability of breaking stems or tearing foliage.

With a calm mind, carefully remove the top 6-8 cm of the substrate. Gently loosen a wooden stick to the maximum possible depth of the container. Pour 4 cm of fresh earth. Mix with what previously loosened. Be careful not to tear the root system.

Now you can add fresh soil to the top, as it was before. We water with the settled water and do not drag anywhere. Let it stand still, you did not touch the flower itself. Just replaced the top layer.

Tip. Before the next watering, check the soil level. You may need to add a little more.

Useful Tips

1. Be sure to transplant the flower you just bought in the store. The soil in which he grew up there is transportation. It is not intended for long nutrition and normal growth.
2. Some plants begin to bloom only when the pot becomes too small for them. Keep this in mind. Otherwise, along with a transplant to a more spacious container, deprive yourself of flowers. But such a plant cannot be deprived of new sensations. What to do? Just transplant the flower into a pot of the same size, but completely replace the substrate.
3. It is strictly forbidden to add fertilizer to new soil! This can burn the root system completely. First, let the flower take root and get used to. And only then can you start to top dress in the usual mode. It is advisable for the first time to slightly reduce the dose, because in fresh soil there is a certain amount of nutrients.

How to transplant a flower into another pot? As you can see, everything is very simple. A little caution and more accuracy. And a whole sea of ​​love. Then the transplant will be fine and painless. And don’t worry, you will succeed!

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