Repotting House Plants: House plant pots and containers are a
vital element of the plants life. Read the best and easiest
instructions for repotting and care of house plants. If a plant
is knocked out of it's container, the small white roots may be
seen coming through the ball of soil and beginning to curl
around the outside of it. That is a plant that is root-bound.
House plant care involves repotting, and the time for repotting
the young plants has arrived when these roots have made a thick
network around the ball of soil, but before they become brown
and woody. In other words, while they are still white and
succulent (working roots). The potting up, as a general rule,
should be to a pot only one size larger, For example, go from a
3" pot to a 4" pot, or from a 4" pot to a 5" pot. Remove the
plant from the old pot by holding the stem of the plant between
the index and middle finger of the left hand, and with your
right hand turning the pot over and tapping the edge of the rim
sharply against the edge of the