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CT  betsygm Oct 23, 2021 4:47 PM CST |
| Should kalanchoe be repotted in a bigger pot than the one it came in? If so, what size, & what material should the pot be? |
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp Opp, AL 🌵🌷⚘🌹🌻 (Zone 8b)              purpleinopp Oct 23, 2021 7:38 PM CST |
| Hi & welcome! What kind of Kalanchoe do you have? Are you able to add a pic? 👀😁😂 - SMILE! -☺😎☻☮👌✌∞☯🐣🐦🐔🐝🍯🐾 The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now. 👒🎄👣🏡🍃🍂🌾🌿🍁❦❧ 🍃🍁🍂🌾🌻🌸🌼🌹🌽❀☀🌺 ☕👓 The only way to succeed is to try. |
 ElPolloDiablo Oct 23, 2021 11:14 PM CST |
| Asked the same question about the K. thyrsiflora I bought earlier this year since it's grown so much over the Summer. The nursery told me to wait until "after St. Valentine Day" to re-pot, using a container at most half an inch larger than the present one to avoid the plant from developing too large of a rootball. Very interesting fact, they told me to avoid cactus and succulent specific compound and to use instead a citrus tree potting compound. PS: this nursery only uses plastic containers even for the largest and most expensive plants, so I'll stick too that. The Saviour. |
CT betsygm Oct 24, 2021 8:35 AM CST |
| Thanks! I read at another site that the original size pot is OK if one prunes & pinches back regularly. |
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp Opp, AL 🌵🌷⚘🌹🌻 (Zone 8b) purpleinopp Oct 24, 2021 6:52 PM CST |
| How would a website know what size pot your plant is in now? 👀😁😂 - SMILE! -☺😎☻☮👌✌∞☯🐣🐦🐔🐝🍯🐾 The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now. 👒🎄👣🏡🍃🍂🌾🌿🍁❦❧ 🍃🍁🍂🌾🌻🌸🌼🌹🌽❀☀🌺 ☕👓 The only way to succeed is to try. |
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost  DaisyI Oct 24, 2021 7:14 PM CST |
| I would leave it in the pot its in unless its top heavy. Slide it out of the pot. If the roots are up against the pot side, put it in a bigger pot (give it 1/2 inch all the way around). If they aren't put it back into the original pot and drop that into a heavier pot. Kalanchoes don't have huge root systems so over-potting, overwatering and root rot are a concern. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp Opp, AL 🌵🌷⚘🌹🌻 (Zone 8b) purpleinopp Oct 24, 2021 7:30 PM CST |
| It would help to know what kind of plant we are discussing. Kalanchoe genus has a wide variety of species. 👀😁😂 - SMILE! -☺😎☻☮👌✌∞☯🐣🐦🐔🐝🍯🐾 The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now. 👒🎄👣🏡🍃🍂🌾🌿🍁❦❧ 🍃🍁🍂🌾🌻🌸🌼🌹🌽❀☀🌺 ☕👓 The only way to succeed is to try. |
CT betsygm Oct 25, 2021 6:38 AM CST |
| Thanks for those tips, Daisyl. I'm glad to know the original pots are typically OK. I'll have to do some major pruning. |
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