today i repotted my ~10yr old jade plant! it had been doing... poorly in its latest pot so i ended up going down to the suburbs where there are lots of gardening stores & getting a huge new pot for it + some potting soil. last time i had repotted it into soil that was way too dense & sandy and its roots (as i learned when i knocked it out of the pot) were only like four inches down; i felt really bad. anyway hopefully it'll feel better in its new home and will stop wilting and desperately trying to spill out and drop buds everywhere.
(it's actually kind of annoying b/c a lot of the jade care writeups on the internet are like "make sure to give them sandy soil b/c it's much easier to overwater them in potting soil since that traps moisture", or "oh actually you very rarely want to repot jade plants b/c they have shallow & sparse root systems" and like: well hopefully this repotting won't KILL IT but i think leaving it like it was would've eventually ended w/ terminal failure to thrive, so, hopefully everything is gonna be great now. hopefully.)
now: to get more potting soil and repot a bunch of my other plants :V
i got a peace lily and a snake plant about six months ago and those have both been doing fine in my room over the winter, so now i'm trying to find some other low-light cold-tolerant plants i can stick up here so the place is less grim. i've been thinking about a spider plant b/c they're very classic but they're not exactly low-light and also i don't rly have anywhere to hang one.
(it's actually kind of annoying b/c a lot of the jade care writeups on the internet are like "make sure to give them sandy soil b/c it's much easier to overwater them in potting soil since that traps moisture", or "oh actually you very rarely want to repot jade plants b/c they have shallow & sparse root systems" and like: well hopefully this repotting won't KILL IT but i think leaving it like it was would've eventually ended w/ terminal failure to thrive, so, hopefully everything is gonna be great now. hopefully.)
now: to get more potting soil and repot a bunch of my other plants :V
i got a peace lily and a snake plant about six months ago and those have both been doing fine in my room over the winter, so now i'm trying to find some other low-light cold-tolerant plants i can stick up here so the place is less grim. i've been thinking about a spider plant b/c they're very classic but they're not exactly low-light and also i don't rly have anywhere to hang one.
