Potting up again

The day finally came and we potted up the largest plants another time. We put them into 3 quart pots (trivia fact, this size pot is sometimes referred to as a gallon pot by some people).

I spent a lot of time hemming and hawing over whether to do this and when and such. Many experience gardners advise against going to such big pots and in hindsight I am starting to see their point. It is a relatively expensive thing to do with the cost of the larger pots and the potting mix. It is also unwieldly to have the plants in the big pots and impractical to have them under lights once they are.

All of that said, we started too early and the plants need to wait at least 2-3 more weeks until they get planted outside and they were outgrowing their pots.

We got a good deal on a big stack of pots and two different types of potting soil. The first soil is Miracle Grow mix and the other is MetroMix 830.

We selected the 8 largest plants and put half of them into miracle grow and the other half into the MetroMix.

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The jungle (before)



Materials


First Plant






Stripping the lower branches (gasp)



Colin watering a new plant



The 8 plants take their first trip outside



Now that they are done they look kind of little in their new pots. The weather has been crummy the past few days including today. We had them outside for a few hours this morning and an hour or so tonight (the sun actually came out for a while). The rest of the time they were in their new home in the garage.

There are probably 8 more plants that will need bigger pots and the rest can hopefully survive in the size that they are in now.