Hi everybody this is Noelle at Petitti's and we're here at Oakwood village and
it's spring and guess what it's time to transplant or pot up or do whatever you
need to do with your house plants when houseplants start actively growing when
the day length starts to lengthen we spring forward with the time your house
plant you'll kind of see them perk up a little bit and that's actually a time
where you can start to increase water and you can actually start to fertilize
when you're watering your houseplants if you're having a very hard time if the
roots are taking up a lot of soil space it seems like you're watering daily you
know just to try to keep this plant up and alert so needless to say it might be
time to transplant in this respect this peace lily is really really root bound
so I'm going to pull it out of its pot it's in a six inch pot right now with a
saucer and look at the root system on this plant so it is really really
fibrous it's very hard to even get my fingers in so it's something that could
be divided really no problem whatsoever oh and or repot it so lots of times
Angelo will talk about repotting he normally says remove about an inch or
two of the root system the reason being and you can tell on this plant it's it's
almost all roots so again removing this root system is
going to help this plant develop new roots so we're gonna take off the bottom
of the root system and then score the sides of this peace lily so we're
actually cutting those roots that are wrapping around the outside of the root
ball and we're gonna remove anything that's larger than about a pencil which
I really don't see they're they're pretty thin fibrous roots if you had
roots that were a dark color maybe a yellow or an orange or were kind of
smushy or brown that smelled you know sort of rotting that would be definitely
an area that you'd want to remove in this case
so peacefully the roots look really healthy so there's no problem with that
whatsoever and then once we do that what we're gonna do is we're actually going
to divide the peacefully so you can grow it in two separate pots or you can give
a pot to a friend or a loved one so that's always really nice to to kind of
share your plants you might need your pruners you might need a sharp trowel
sharp edge trowel that you can actually work on the root system of this plant
again don't be too timid about it you can really get in there and cut and
you're gonna see me as I'm doing this I'm just cutting with my pruners about
an inch off the bottom of this plant and I'm kind of sticking sticking those
pruners in and and really working all the way around so and I'm pruning right
through the center right now so look at that so a whole inches come off the
bottom and then you can see all those white fibrous roots that are inside
there the next thing that I'm going to do is actually take my pruners and I'm
just going to score the sides because I really don't want the root system to be
wrapping around that root ball I want those roots to grow straight down or
straight out and so I'm just gonna score the side sometimes you can get your
fingers in there but with this piece Lily it is not gonna happen today so no
problem I'm gonna take those pruners and score so we've got a nice kind of loose
root ball some of those older roots have been you know are coming out which is
fine and then the next thing that you can do is when you look at the peace
lily there are usually they grow in kind of clumps or clusters so the next thing
you can do is you can actually kind of go through and find a nice dividing
point in between the clusters I'm gonna take there's probably I don't know three
to four clusters in here and I'm going to take the trowel and I'm just going to
jam down in between the clusters okay so I'm gonna actually move
down through the root ball and sometimes you have to get the pruners to go in and
take care of it that way too now you can tell from the inside there
are little clusters that were growing on the inside see these little guys these
are all separate little plants so you literally could divide some of these
other clusters that have roots on them and you could move them into smaller
pots as well so what you can do at this point is select a container obviously
we're not going to put it back in the six inch container that would be a
little bit too big for these divisions so what we can do is we can select a
little bit smaller container this is about four and a half inches wide has a
saucer with it it's just a terra cotta and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna fill
with potting soil probably about 3/4 of the way up
Nestle some of the divisions right into the potting soil make sure the roots are
down secure into the soil and then we'll fill in with more potting soil and go
from there be sure to use potting soil whatever
type you like putida potting soil works out great but you need to use potting
soil for indoor house plants because that's a very light soil
it's basically peat moss based okay has some perlite which are those little
white pearl styrofoam pearls in it and that really helps the root system as far
as it can absorb water when it needs it and then the water can drain through it
so there really is a purpose to how light potting soil is and what we want
to do always when we're container gardening and you're planting anything
in the container make sure you give yourself about an inch 1/2 inch of space
which we call the water space and so when you're watering the water goes into
that pot I mention it all the time I do sound like a broken record but it's
really important you don't want to fill that pot up all the way to the top with
soil so we have a beautiful piece Lillie division
pick the one with the flower I didn't even realize and then the last thing
that you're going to want to do since it is spring and all through the growing
season you're going to want to feed your houseplants houseplant feeding can be
very very easy Ozma code it lasts about four to six
months for indoor houseplants so usually one maybe two fertilizations will work
and I would say on this four and a half inch pot you're really using maybe a
teaspoon to 2 teaspoons of fertilizer I'm just trying to scratch it in into
the soil just at the top layer of the soil and you're gonna water and you're
done okay enjoy