House plants
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I bought this white bird of paradise in June and haven’t repotted since. So it’s sitting the the same soil and pot I bought it in. I checked the bottom of the pot today and saw it’s roots sticking out. I think I should repot it but I’m not sure it would be a good idea as it’s now late October and it’s going into winter. My house stays around 20 degrees celsius so would the time of year maybe not affect when to repot it? Not really sure so could someone let me know thank you
Hi, I’ve bought this jade tricolour and it’s potted it very dense and very poor draining soil. It also has a bit of mold/fungus on the surface of its soil. Would it be a bad idea to change to the soil to well draining succulent soil mix today or should I wait, even though it is sitting in soggy soil
Help! I accidentally dropped my PPP and one of her leaves broke can it be saved if so what should I do?!
Hey yall!! This is like not a pro tip but defo a tip, so I had my polka dot and my monkey mask in terracotta pots, and I was getting a real fungal gnat problem like, really annoying and so I was looking at the pots and noticed they were really damp but also has white mould growing on them, so make sure if you have any sorta terracotta pot it’s best to just use glazed ones or use plastic pots (clear ones because then you can see roots and how wet your soil is) and use terracotta as sorta a decorative cover. HAPPY TUESDAY PLANT PEOPLES
How should I water string of hearts and string of pearls? Some people have said spraying the top others have said dunk it or water as normal, I'm unsure which to do...
Am I crazy to try to split a peperomia? My frost peperomia was already huge when I bought it and I’ve never been happy with the size. It has a single root ball with multiple stems, and according to Google 🧐 if I carefully cut away a few stems with some roots I can divide it. Has anyone tried this? I don’t want to kill it.
Here’s a little plant biology: Plant cells have specific structures known as central vacuoles, which keep the cell in a hypotonic state(meaning that the cell is always completely full of water). When a plant doesn’t receive water for awhile, the vacuoles slowly empty out, which causes the cells to become limp and the plant to wilt. Keeping a healthy and flourishing plant through a proper watering cycle means that the plant cells are always packed full of water, and rarely ever go limp! This is really just me studying for my science test 😂