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+categories = ["plants"]
+date = 2026-05-31T10:00:00-06:00
+description = ""
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+slug = "2026-05-31-plant-repot"
+title = "🪴 Plant Repotting"
+author = "nicholas"
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+The plants need new pots more fitting of their beauty and vitality not some ugly slimy plastic. I prefer clay: better aesthetics, drier soil and easier to control pests.
+
+## Ficus Audrey
+
+For two years this tree did nothing. No growth, no changes, nothing at all. So we attempted to induce some kind of growth by snipping off a small length of growth at the top: the **apical meristem**. This shortly prompted the smallest of growths to develop on the node just beneath the cut, barely detectable, a small green nub. 
+
+{{< image 
+    src="images/ficus-audrey-new-growth.jpg"
+    caption="BEFORE: new growth, very early" >}}
+
+And then, once again, for months it was still, unchanging...until a few weeks ago when we noticed the roots had begun to reach out beneath the pot, winding around into the saucers of nearby planters. And the tiny green nub had elongated into a very small proto-leaf. This is all very unremarkable as far as plants go, just part of the normal course of things, but it is the first time since acquiring the plant that it has shown any obvious signs of actually being alive.
+
+{{< image 
+    src="images/ficus-audrey-new-leaf.JPG"
+    caption="AFTER: growth developed into a new leaf" >}}
+
+These signs of expanding life call for an expanded container.
+
+{{< image 
+    src="images/ficus-audrey-new-pot.JPG"
+    caption="ficus audrey repotted" >}}
+
+
+## Pin-stripe calathea
+
+This plant developed a severe spider-mite infestation. It died slowly despite heroic interventions. The ficus audrey will move into its pot.
+
+{{< image 
+    src="images/pinstripe-calathea-dying.jpg"
+    caption="Pinstripe calathea dying, RIP. goodbye" >}}
+
+## Money tree
+
+This plant came potted in a small plastic pot. It needs to match or the whole thing is SHOT and the aesthetics are TRASH. Upgrade.
+
+{{< image 
+    src="images/money-plant-repot-complete.JPG"
+    caption="money plant (and old plastic orchid pots)" >}}
+
+## Orchids
+
+These orchids were gifted to us and came packaged in very wet soggy media, which is fine for transporting the orchids long distances to keep them alive, but will rot the roots with time. Some roots were rotted already and had to be pruned. We repotted in orchid bark which had to be soaked first. Also, we upgraded their pot from plastic to a clay pot with vents.
+
+
+{{< image 
+    src="images/orchid-bark-soak.JPG"
+    caption="Soaking orchid bark" >}}
+    
+{{< image 
+    src="images/orchid-root-pruning.JPG"
+    caption="prune rotted roots" >}}
+
+{{< image 
+    src="images/orchids-repot-complete.JPG"
+    caption="orchids in new pots" >}}
+