Transplanting Screwup
 

I have this indoor evergreen plant (I don't know its name) that was the
center plant in this picture

http://www.brandylion.com/images/indoor_plants.jpg

This pic was taken a few years ago when it was in pretty bad shape. Now
it's about double that size and relatively healthy but became root bound
in its pot. Today I transplanted it into its new, larger pot and I
screwed up and half of the root ball fell off. I should have been more
careful. Anyway, now that it is in a much larger pot with only half a
root ball, is there anything I should do to make sure this plant doesn't
go into shock and die on me? It looks fine now but I just did the
botched transplant operation a few hours ago.

In article , Mark
Anderson wrote:

I have this indoor evergreen plant (I don't know its name) that was the
center plant in this picture

http://www.brandylion.com/images/indoor_plants.jpg

This pic was taken a few years ago when it was in pretty bad shape. Now
it's about double that size and relatively healthy but became root bound
in its pot. Today I transplanted it into its new, larger pot and I
screwed up and half of the root ball fell off. I should have been more
careful. Anyway, now that it is in a much larger pot with only half a
root ball, is there anything I should do to make sure this plant doesn't
go into shock and die on me? It looks fine now but I just did the
botched transplant operation a few hours ago.

Seems to me that if part of the rootball just fell off, it wasn't a very
important part of the root. But as for transplant shock, a feeding of
Vitamin B should help.

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"Mark Anderson" wrote in message
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I have this indoor evergreen plant (I don't know its name) that was the
center plant in this picture
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Today I transplanted it into its new, larger pot and I
screwed up and half of the root ball fell off.

Hi,
The plant is Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) and can be grown
from cuttings so the loss of some of the root ball should be tolerated.
http://www.floridata.com/ref/a/arau_het.cfm has a lot of info on maintaining
this plant and Google can bring lots more on care as a house plant.
HTH -_- how

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The plant is Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) and can be grown
from cuttings so the loss of some of the root ball should be tolerated.
http://www.floridata.com/ref/a/arau_het.cfm has a lot of info on maintaining
this plant and Google can bring lots more on care as a house plant.
HTH -_- how

Thanks a lot for that website; it was very informative. Unfortunately,
mother nature has been a real b*tch this spring here in Chicago and we're
getting low temps below 40 (including a frost in the suburbs on the frost
free date of May 15!). It was good to know that that plant can't deal
with sub 40 temps so I had to lug that 100+ pound planter inside.
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