I would like to repot my snake plant. What size pot shoul...
3ft to light, indirect
12” pot with drainage
Last watered 1 week ago
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If you want to repot it then you need a pot 1-2 inches larger than the previous one, new soil, and yes the pot should be terracotta and have a drainage hole! To repot you simply fill up the new pot 1/3 of the way, take the snake plant out of it’s previous pot and plop it into the new one, cover it up with more new soil and then you’re done! :D
@LeadSeagrapes56 @Slyvie
I hope you downsized the pot! That pot pictured looks like it’s too big for your snake plant. You don’t want to upsize based on the last POT size, you up-pot based on how big the ROOT-BALL is. Right now, based on what your plants leaves look like, can you see that the pot looks too big for it? Unless I’m wrong and that pot is just 100% full of roots, but I doubt that. 😜
If you have too much soil compared to the roots, the pot will stay wet for too long, which just invites root rot bacteria to come crash your party. You want to pick a size of pot that just big enough around the roots, usually only a couple inches bigger, so that the roots can drink all the water in an appropriate amount of time.
I hope you downsized the pot! That pot pictured looks like it’s too big for your snake plant. You don’t want to upsize based on the last POT size, you up-pot based on how big the ROOT-BALL is. Right now, based on what your plants leaves look like, can you see that the pot looks too big for it? Unless I’m wrong and that pot is just 100% full of roots, but I doubt that. 😜
If you have too much soil compared to the roots, the pot will stay wet for too long, which just invites root rot bacteria to come crash your party. You want to pick a size of pot that just big enough around the roots, usually only a couple inches bigger, so that the roots can drink all the water in an appropriate amount of time.
@DreamMachine I didn’t actually look at the size of the pot to plant ratio and I really agree with you!! That pot is too large for a plant that size and downsizing is important in this case.