On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:12:51 +0000, VX wrote
(in message m):

I've got two quite small plants that arrived in 3" pots that will both
eventually grow several feet high and I need to know what potting-up
strategy
woud be right. They a

1} Jasminium Polyanthum, currently 15" high and throwing out new shoots and
looking like it will really take off soon, my guess is that it could go
straight into a 10' pot now, maybe bigger still- and

2] A 10" Acer Palmatum Atropurpureum- apparently this thin twiggy little
thing is two years old already. This one is alive, but not doing anything at
present, but has many buds. My guess would be this needs a middling-sized
pot, say 6' or so and should be repotted up into progressively bigger pots
until it is two or three feet high when I could- maybe- put it in its final
pot (or the ground).

Any ideas- am I guessing anywhere near right with these?


One thing I observed when watching last night's Titchmarsh (The Gardening
Year?) was that he explained some principles, namely how you could tell what
kind of pruning a shrub or climber needed by what time of year it flowered. I
though that was rather neat, it never having occured to me before. If much of
this works in such a way then I could actually Understand Things, rather than
always having to ask someone.

So I wonder if the same sort of thing applies to pot sizes and speed of
growth- it seems logical. If it did then my guesses would be roughly right I
think. So if I don't hear anyone screaming "Stop!" I'm going to go ahead with
that.

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