Woke up to a crash at 7:30AM….. I repotted it and it seems ok, albeit a little off center in its new slightly bigger pot. A couple of leaves have a tiny little bruise, will my Thai con suffer more from this damage? She was just uncurling a new leaf too 😩
by NatureGalPal
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Putting it in a larger pot may do more damage.
Your roots will have to do more work to grow in a larger pot.
Nooooo I feel you so much!!! I hope she’ll make it! Currently also battling with our cats, the two boys are quite young and they LOVE monching my plants or knocking them down. So for now all the plants are locked in the bedroom (the only room the cats are not allowed in) and I always feel like I am entering a jungle to go to sleep 😅
She does look very sorry though.
as soon as I saw the first image I thought that oh that’s view a person lives with a cat sees.
jeez
That kitten is like “and I’d do it again”
I knew there was a cat behind this without even needing to swipe lol
Picture two: “It wasn’t me, Mam! Honest!”
In two parts?
Oh the Innocence!!!
Kitty is innocent, she’s never done anything wrong in her life! 😜
Jokes aside, I think you’ll be okay! Sure, the replacement pot you had on hand might be a little bigger than you’d like, but as long as the root ball and the stems are okay, then it should recover in time. If any stems are droopy, you might consider propping them up.
Fingers crossed for you! Please give your kitty a nose boop from me!
“Who, me? That was like that when I found it, I swear.”
How do you plead?
I did it he’s innocent
Same thing just happened at my friend’s house. She was about to throw it away, when I told her it was perfectly good to repot still!
Here’s my rec for both the cat doing it again issue, and the larger pot issue: get a plastic nursery pot (if you don’t have any lying around, you can sometimes buy them at your local hardware store, or ask for extras at your local nursery). Look for a pot roughly the same size (diameter, and rough volume) as the old one, and pot it into that. Now take your (slightly larger) nice-looking ceramic pot, and attach it firmly to your counter/shelf/wherever the plant lives, using command strips, mounting putty, or 3M extreme double sided tape (whichever matches the mounting surface, and size/weight of the pot, best). Now take the plant in the plastic nursery pot, and put it directly inside of the nicer pot! Voila! Now the cat can’t knock it over, and when you need to water it, you just take out the inner, lighter pot, and water it in the sink where it can drain!
I actually do this with *all* of my houseplants – not because of cats, but because I find they’re easier to water, and all seem to be much happier being allowed to drain fully into the sink, when watering. If you have a plant with higher water needs, you can get an outer pot that doesn’t have any holes, put some rocks in the bottom, and keep the bottom filled up so it wicks upwards. And this makes it much easier to move plants around when I get new ones, and/or to just shift things to different pots when repotting season comes around! Plus if the pot falls and breaks, it’s much easier to repot – sometimes the plant doesn’t even come out of the inner pot much, so all you have to do is top off the lost soil!
What an adorable culprit!
First glance I started looking for the cat!!
I feel your pain. An orchid that I waited two years to see bloom was knocked to the floor by my mischievous Ragdoll. The bud snapped off ☹️
https://preview.redd.it/40cqoths5rvf1.jpeg?width=464&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e61707fd92dfbd2254b57139bb403fe5eddec7e1
When the feeling’s gone and you can’t go on?
I fear this. We have two cats!
Look at that innocent little face! Looks like, “Who me?” 😂
No it’ll be completely fine. Don’t worry!
😱🪴🫠😢
What A pretty kitty
How did I know the second pic was gonna be a cat