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Hot take: a guy at the plant swap said roots hate being fussed over, and my pothos finally agrees
I was at the spring plant swap in Lawrence two weekends ago and this older guy with a table full of cuttings said something that stuck with me. He said, "Every repot sets a plant back about 3 weeks, so stop doing it for fun." I had been moving my pothos into a bigger pot every time it looked sad, maybe 4 times in 6 months, and it kept dropping leaves. I left it alone in the same pot since then and it has pushed out 5 new leaves, no yellowing. Turns out the roots were fine the whole time and I was just stressing it out. Now I check the drainage hole for roots before I even think about a new pot. Does anyone else wait way too long to size up, or am I the only one who used to repot out of boredom?
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