How To STEP BY STEP Repot a Plant at Home, With 100% Sucsess?

Every Home gardener Needs A Correct Repotting Technique, Its a Necessity, Because Sooner or Later Your Plants Gonna Need repotting. In this Video, We Will Try To Cover each & Every Important Detail About Repotting Plants as a Beginner, We WIll Go Through a Practical Step By Step Repotting, So You Can Learn All The Way.

Why Plants Need Repotting?

First of all Lets Talk About Why We Need Repotting. In A Forest Plants Grow On Their Own, No One Is Their To Repot, So How They Grow. In The Ground, The Roots Can Go As deep As They Want To, But In a Container, Space For Roots Is Simply Limited.

When They Hit The Boundry Wall of Your Planter, They Take a U Turn & Keeps On Growing & Growing Inside The Pot, & The Momement Comes When The Roots are Hitting With One Another, This Is Called as Roots Bounding.

The Roots are Bounded, There is Not Enough Room For Their Futher Growth, When Roots Stops Growing, The Plant Also Stops growing Leaves, Buds & Flowers. Some Turns Their Leaves yellow, While Some Curls Their Leaves.

They can Survive Like This For a While, But Not For Long, Eventually Will Die. That is Why In a Limited Space, We Have To Give Them a Bigger Container Every Year, Or May Be Prune Out Their Roots For Making More Space.

& SomeTimes, we Wanna Repot a Plant To Change The Older Soil, & sometimes Plant has Root Rot, Or Some Soil Pests, That We Wanna Cure, In All Such Cases, Repotting is The Solution.

What is The Best Time To Repot a Plant?

The Correct Time & Season Is one of The most Important Things In a Safe & Successful Repotting of a Plant. If You wanna Repot a Winter Season Plant Like Rose Plant, The Best Time Would Be The Start of Its Growing Season Means The Early Winters.

Same Way For a Summer Season Plant Like a Hibiscus Plant, Then Early Summers Or Springs Would Be The Best Time. In The Middle of a Growing Season, Plant Can Be Repotted successfully Too, But Its Not Recommended.

If You are a Beginner, Simply Repot all The Summer Season Plants In Spring Days. & Winter Season Plants In Early winters. Rainy Season Is also a Great Time For Repotting, Because The Humidity Is High & Plant Feels No Shock Of Repotting.

The Seasonal Plants We Transplant, are Hardy & Growing They can Be Transplanted Within The Season WhenEver You Like, Just make Sure not To Do It in a Hot Sunny Day. Dryness & Heat both are Very Unideal For repotting. While a Moist & Cool Season is Perfect For Repotting Or Transplanting.

The Easiest Method Of Repotting!

Now Let’s Know The Step By Step Way of Repotting.
First of all Prepare The pot. If Your Plant is In a 5″ Pot, you can Choose a Bigger Pot, May be 6″, or Even a 12″ Pot. More Space For Roots Means You wont Have To Do The Repotting again & Again, & Plant Can also grow At Max Speed, Without Worrying About The Limited Space.

Some Good Quality Pots are linked In The Here to buy. Second Important Thing is The Soil Media. The Simplest Suggestion Is A Loose Well Draining & Soft Soil Media. You can Made Such a Mixture Right At Your Home, Just Follow This Guide.

Using a bad Soil Media Can Limit The Growth of Your Plants, So Be Careful. While Filling The Pot, You can add Some brickPieaces or Cinder at the base To Enhance The Drainage Even More.

Now Lets Take The Plant Out Of The Older Pot. Make Sure You have Watered The Plant a day before Repotting, This will Keep The Roots Hydrated While We Do the Repotting. Dry Root Bowl means More Chances Of Failure.

Carefully Hit The Pot With something, The Whole Root Bowl Will Come Out. Here You Just have To Make Sure To Save The Roots. If The Roots Stays Intact, Your Repotting is already 40% Successful.

Now Place Root Bowl In the Centre Of The New Pot, You can Also remove The Older Soil Media a Little Bit, So The Roots Came In Contact of The New Soil. Or Just Skip This. Add Soil Around It.

You have To dense The Soil, Means Press is Tightly To Remove all The Air Pockets. You can Also Use a tool To put It in & Out Of The Soil, This will remove The Air Gaps. Now Water the Plant Fully.

Make The Soil Fully Moist, Just Dont Make It Wet. Place The Pot in a Well Lit Bright Shade For Some Days, Do The Repotting at The Evening Time.

SomeTimes We Do The Repotting To Save Our Plants From Root Rot, Or Some Soil Pests, In That Case You Can use Neem Cake Powder In The Soil. This will Prevent Fungus & Pests Very Efficiently. 1 Table Spoon For a 10″ Pot is Enough, Mix In The Whole Soil Evenly.

After Care….

After few days, The Leaves Of Your Plant May Turn Yellow & Fells Off. Sometimes Plant Drops all Its Leaves, But Its Totally a Natural Thing. Make Sure Not To Over Water, Or Under Water, make a balanced Moist Soil.

Wintin a Few Weeks, The Plant will Grow New Leaves, New growth is a Sign of Successful Reepotting. You can Now Move Your Plant Back To a Sunny Spot, Or If it is an Indoor Plant, then no Need. You can Also fertilize It, Prune It. Just Avoid These During The Recovery Phase.

Its all About Repottng of a Plant, feel Free To Follow This Guide, On Rose Plant DieBack Disease.