Donโt know if my plant will need a bigger pot.
Basically I got my Elephat Bush at Walmart(I know sue me), and Iโm not sure at what point my plant will need a new/bigger pot. Sorry for photo with bad lighting. #HappyPlants #NewPlantMom #PlantsMakePeopleHappy
0ft to light, direct
7โ pot with drainage
Last watered 2 days ago
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@SpiffyKonjac33 , you are welcome. Be careful not to put it in a much larger pot, maybe two or 3 inches bigger than what itโs in now. If you put it in too big a pot, then it will develop a lot of roots and not many leaves.
Honestly, if it wasnโt for Walmart and the sellers that Walmart allows to sell, I would not have some of the extremely rare plants that I have now because guess what you can check all the nurseries and you will not find them. I just got two more this week and having two more on the way! lol
I will say the rare plant usually come in pretty small specimens, but I have had very much success. I have a tropical jungle in my yard in North Carolina now. ๏ฟผ
I will say the rare plant usually come in pretty small specimens, but I have had very much success. I have a tropical jungle in my yard in North Carolina now. ๏ฟผ
this is a succulent, and since succulents are very prone to rot, theyre best kept in the smallest possible pot relative to the size of root system (smaller pot = less soil = less water in the pot = soil dries out faster = less chance of rot). when repotting (using a potting mix with an appropriate amount of pumice/perlite), the roots should take up at least around 1/2 of the pot. from there itll generally take.. around 1โ3 years for the roots to outgrow the pot. theyll start growing out of the drainage holes once theyve taken up as much of the pot as possible. when rootbound, the plant's growth rate will just slow down drastically. it takes a long time for it to start causing actual health problems. since you dont have experience you could very easily misjudge a too-big pot as being appropriately sized (extremely common [and sometimes fatal!!] mistake i see people do it all the time), so the safest thing to do is deliberately underpot (have the roots take up more than 1/2 the pot when repotting and wait until you can see the roots coming out of the pot to even think about repotting). being rootbound really isnt a big deal for succulents. look up "portulacaria afra bonsai" and check out the size of the pots those are kept in :p