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Forum: Indoor Gardening and HouseplantsReplies: 6, Views: 173
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cotton213
Lake Orion, MI
(Zone 6a)

May 14, 2008
06:15 PM

Post #4951610

I've been reading the topic on houseplant soils -- thanks to Al for all the great info -- and I'm ready to start "converting" my houseplants. I've always just dumped the plant out of one pot and put it in the next, maybe doing a little root-teasing and of course adding additional soil. But I've never actually "changed" the soil before. How might I do this? Do I bang all the soil out of the root ball? How careful do I need to be? If I do get a bunch of old soil out of the root ball, how do I get new soil mixed in there? Are these dumb questions?

barb

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