Repotting Compact Catt., Sizing Up Question

[jkofferdahl]

To an extent I agree with Bil, and I certainly agree with his reasoning. In practical terms, though, using a pot which is double the size of the original may lead to watering troubles, as in excessively long drying time. I suspect you'll be fine with the pots you've described.

[bil]

Originally Posted by jkofferdahl

To an extent I agree with Bil, and I certainly agree with his reasoning. In practical terms, though, using a pot which is double the size of the original may lead to watering troubles, as in excessively long drying time. I suspect you'll be fine with the pots you've described.

See if you can find something that can be used as a pot, which is nice and shallow. Think outside the box. In a DIY/Household store here there are some shallow plastic baskets, rectangular, look like wickerwork, which gives all round ventiation.

[Mountaineer370]

Thanks for the replies! I do remember now seeing that recent/current thread about pot size theories. I'll have to re-read that.

I do have an update, though, and not a good one. Since most of the media in the tiny pot had fallen out anyway, I decided to just pull the plant out and see what I had to work with. It seemed to be in small bark chips and what might be tiny chunks of sponge rock. Also had one Styrofoam peanut in the center.

Unfortunately, most -- and maybe all -- of the roots appeared to be dead. I trimmed off the obviously brown, mushy ones. What's left are four or five of them that are only one to two inches long, kind of brownish-gray, but not to the point of being mushy. I held it under tepid water for a minute and none of them turned green, so I'm not optimistic that they are viable. I trimmed off the single flower stem with the three blooms and dusted it with cinnamon.

It's now sitting in a glass tumbler until I decide what I should do with it. Is leaving it in the tumbler and giving it a soak with water for an hour or so a day something that might encourage it to grow new roots? Or should it go back into a bark medium ASAP?