Great tip! in Planting a Rootbound Plant

By Dutchlady1
June 11, 2013

When you have a root-bound plant in a pot, give it a nice long soak in a tub of water before trying to remove it from its pot, so you don't end up breaking off the majority of the roots.

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GigiAdeniumPlumeria

Jun 10, 2013 7:49 PM CST

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Name: Gigi AdeniumPlumeria
Florida (Zone 9b)

This is very helpful tip especially when I have to repot my plummies!

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CDsSister

Jun 10, 2013 8:48 PM CST

Name: Marilyn
Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b)
Garden today. Clean next week.

Great idea, I can't tell you how often I have struggled with this one.

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rocklady

Jun 11, 2013 1:15 PM CST

Name: Jean
Hot Springs Vlg, AR, DeLand, F

CDsSister said:
Great idea, I can't tell you how often I have struggled with this one.

Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.

"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam

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coconut

Jun 11, 2013 1:46 PM CST

Name: Melissa E. Keyes
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Zone 11+

I didn't cut the roots that went round and round the bottom of the pot when I planted a cherry tree at my Mom's house. Five years later, the tree was big and bearing like crazy, and one day it simply fell over, girdled by those roots.

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