Everything I know about this plant was learned from the internet. I added a moss pole for growth and later needed more support so I added a couple stakes. I not knowingly repotted this directly into the decorative pot, so during my next repotting I know to use a planter and some chunky soil. I have some curling leaves and I think it may be a sign that it’s time to repot. This is in a 10” and her roots are peaking through the drainage hole. Which I’m aware is another sign to repot. Im having mixed feelings about removing the 2 leaves or keeping them. I saw other post about too many plants being in a pot, I now understand I have many. I’m not sure how to go about separating and I am worried about adding unwanted trauma. I want to achieve overall health.
by InevitableMost7411
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I dress code leaves in my house. No ugly leaves allowed! Once they yellow like that, they don’t get healthy again, so OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
First thing I can say for sure is you could water it less (edit: I mean just watering a bit less for now- once you make the changes you can reassess the watering needs). And definitely do the repot as you mentioned with chunky soil and drainage holes. Each pot should be no more than 2 inches bigger in diameter of the root ball. As far as separating the plants someone else may be able to explain that advice better- best I can explain it is taking your time to massage and clean the root ball off of as much dirt and separate the roots as much as you can to preserve some. Breaking some roots is totally fine especially towards the bottom of the root ball just be more careful up top so you can separate the plants with each of their roots. Once the dirt is off and roots separated you can kinda just cut/snap the base of each baby plant that is attached to the main one. Or they may just already be separate plants that you can pull apart easily once the roots let go of each other. And as far as support, the actual support is definitely more important than having a moss pole. It may be helpful to just remove the moss pole after all the repotting and stuff. And you can use stakes like cedar wood plant stakes. I’ve been getting away with just bamboo stakes, for bigger stems I use copper wire to secure a few of the stakes together for one thicker stake. And make sure to support than properly- secure the stem to the stake not the petioles.