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Re: [SANS] Repotting

At 08:10 PM 2/6/98 +1300, Frances and Ted Verrity wrote:
>there I was happily typing up a message to the group, and it DISAPPEARED!
>If it has arrived, I am sorry for repeating myself.
>
>My query is this. On Sunday (today is Friday) we will be repotting out
>modest collectionof Sansevierias. I have two particular queries.
>
>1. Do other people add additional fertilizer to the mix? Our mix is peat
>with 35% added pumice and some slow-release fertilizer. Do people fertilize
>when watering?
>
>2. What are the views on over-potting or under-potting?

I can tell you what i do under my growing conditions, which i will explain.
our plants are not allowed to go below 50 degres F at night and often go up
to 100 on a sunny day in our winter. so, when I take fresh divisions i put
them in a pot which allows for CONSIDERABLE expansion. you could say  they
are overpotted.  eventually they grow
and when i have an old plant in a tub and i have gotten lazy, it can sit
there until the pot breaks. so the answer is yes. and Yes.

I use a time release fertillizer. but i have a naturally good soil to begin
with and i amend it with drainy stuff and also with fine orchid bark. I
like time release for succulent plants because the nourishment is released
at watering time and avoids those high tide marks one used to see on
columnar cacti and other plants when the sudden addition of fertillizer
resulted in a spurt of..."pushed" growth. I also have some giant tubs of
beautiful plants which I do not recall having fertillized in living memory.
But i do not use a sterile soil mix, they are growing in real earth often
with real earthwoms.

Hermine
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