- Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:32 pm
#357115
Hi,
I adopted a cape sundew in September, when she was flowering for the first time. She was small, with maybe only six or seven leaves, but I moved her into a 5.5-inch pot to give her lots of room to grow. The pot seemed enormous compared with her little roots.
Fast forward nine months, and things have changed. I cleaned her water dish this week only to discover that her roots have gotten so long that they have grown through the drainage holes in the pot. Not just slightly poking out of the holes — on one side, there's probably a four-inch-long root sticking out!
Even if I were to repot her, at this point I think I'd need a giant pot to accommodate such long roots, which isn't too practical as she lives indoors on a bookshelf. At any rate, when the time comes, I'm sure these roots will make changing out her growing media more difficult. Should I trim the roots? Leave them be? What is the best course of action? (The very nice guy I bought the plant from suggested that I add some growing media to the water dish. Thoughts?)
Also, in the past few months, I've noticed that her trunk has gotten longer and she's leaning a bit. I'd love some advice on what to do, if anything, to address that issue, too.
I'm attaching a few photos. She's otherwise a gorgeous plant that is thriving, despite my lack of a green thumb.
I adopted a cape sundew in September, when she was flowering for the first time. She was small, with maybe only six or seven leaves, but I moved her into a 5.5-inch pot to give her lots of room to grow. The pot seemed enormous compared with her little roots.
Fast forward nine months, and things have changed. I cleaned her water dish this week only to discover that her roots have gotten so long that they have grown through the drainage holes in the pot. Not just slightly poking out of the holes — on one side, there's probably a four-inch-long root sticking out!
Even if I were to repot her, at this point I think I'd need a giant pot to accommodate such long roots, which isn't too practical as she lives indoors on a bookshelf. At any rate, when the time comes, I'm sure these roots will make changing out her growing media more difficult. Should I trim the roots? Leave them be? What is the best course of action? (The very nice guy I bought the plant from suggested that I add some growing media to the water dish. Thoughts?)
Also, in the past few months, I've noticed that her trunk has gotten longer and she's leaning a bit. I'd love some advice on what to do, if anything, to address that issue, too.
I'm attaching a few photos. She's otherwise a gorgeous plant that is thriving, despite my lack of a green thumb.
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