So, long ago, I took the dubious plant care advice that my plants shouldn't live in lonely isolation in their individual pots. As you can expect, most of my attempts at growing combined pots of succulents, uh, struggled. A couple continue to struggle to this day. I decided not to take unsolicited plant advice ever again. Many plants died in unhappy combined pots.
But this isn't about them. This is about this fucking pot. It is home to 2 types of crassula and 2 types of echevaria. This pot has been overflowing with happy growth for ages, and it has so many baby plants that it's applying for a permit to be a nursery. I'm propagating off of these plants. Until recently, my stance on this situation has been "Fine. Prove everybody wrong. Laugh at your dying siblings as you continue to flourish. I'll water you when I feel like it. Whatever." These assholes live in a Greek yogurt container that I poked holes in.
(tl;dr: These plants have lived together happily for quite some time. Against the odds. In the greek yoghurt container with drainage holes.)
So, I recently took a look at the bottom of said container and saw roots coming out. Which means that I need to re-pot these disgustingly happy roommates somehow in order to keep them happy. I know I could section everything off into genetically-identical pots and call it a day, but I don't have the space for 4 4(+)in pots right now. Also, they've lived happily together for ~2 years, and I don't want to kill that when it's so rare.
My question is: How the hell am I supposed to re-pot these plants together? Do I go one size up like for normal re-potting? Do I keep them all growing on top of each other, or try and distance them out from each other in a new pot? Any advice & insight appreciated.
by acecase97
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try not to have them growing over each other in the new pot just cause whatever’s under other plants won’t be getting as much light and since some of those plants are etiolated as is i don’t think they’ll be getting enough light for that to be fine. if you *have* to use a too-big pot to fit all the plants, you can just use a grittier-than-normal potting mix to make up for it. the bigger the pot the grittier the mix. you can also just trim the roots and put them back in that same container if you want lol