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I’ve never transplanted just one pot. Not once in my life. I start with the plan to transplant just one plant that needs a bigger pot and end up transplanting plants for hours. Like I have no control over myself, there is never just one plant. The free pot can always be used for something else, and let’s face it we can never have enough free pots. Just one free big pot opens the doors to plants transplanting.<\/span><\/p>\n

So the same thing happened with my plan to transplant my indoor palm.<\/span><\/div>\n

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When I was transplanting my plants in the spring I didn’t have a pot big enough to transplant my palm so I just left it in the old pot. But, now it was desperate for transplanting, the roots were already out and I needed to do it. <\/span><\/div>\n

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 So I bought a new huge pot. I couldn’t find the right-sized pot, so I just bought the biggest pot I could find. Since this pot had no holes and I didn’t get a pot plate I decided not to drill holes but rather put some stones and brick pieces inside to keep the water away from the roots. So my hubby broke a few bricks we had at home and the pot was ready for my palm.<\/span><\/div>\n


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The palm fits in the pot perfectly and I’m really happy with how the palm looks now. It has enough room to grow.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Once the palm was transplanted the normal people would store the empty pot and clean up, but not me. When I saw the empty pot it made me immediately search for a plant that would fill the pot. I didn’t search long as my Monkey monstera overgrew its pot in just two months so I transplanted the monstera.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Then the inevitable chain continued. Monstera pot was perfect for my two Streptocarpuses. The streptocarpus pot was perfect for my African violet. African violet pot was perfect for Blue star fern. Blue star fern pot was perfect for my Philodendron and in the end, most of my plants had a new pot.<\/span><\/div>\n

I was left with one big shallow pot so I just planted all of my small plants together.<\/span><\/div>\n

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You’d think I’d finally be happy, but no. I had one more empty pot and I had to transplant one more plant, but which? The pot was too small for any decent plant and then I saw my cactus seedlings.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

I’ve recently sown some cactus seeds and didn’t expect much. The seeds surprised me and in a couple of days, I had a bunch of tiny seedlings. But it’s getting colder and this pot was perfect to transplant them and bring in. So I took all of the little plants out of the seedling tray and transplanted them to the small pot. Now I was finally happy.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What was planned as a 10-minute palm transplanting turned into a 2-hour transplanting session. There was soil everywhere and I had to spend ages cleaning the balcony. Sre\u0107ko didn’t help this time. He decided he likes the dirty look.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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But at least my plants are in better pots now and I won’t need to transplant them any time soon. And when the time to transplant one of them comes I’ll do the pot exchange all over again because there’s no way to transplant just one pot. \ud83d\ude01<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


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