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my poor path...

9 years ago

my path is not doing well this year, looks horrible. extra fertilizer hasn't done much to help, so i unpotted it today and found tons of tiny eggs all in the soil - yeck! but also that root ball is right to the edge of its 12" pot - can you say roasted roots? the roots are so thick i can't get in between them at all either. that pile of dirt was all that i got off the roots - not very much at all.

so now its got a new bigger pot so that the roots can grow and not get toasted by the heat - hopefully it will be happier now.

Comments (3)

User
9 years ago
Merkity,
Ugh, I hate that. It ate the soil lol.
I take a sharp serated edged knife and cut the roots cutting downward. I found when you do that to a rootbound plant it really bounces back faster.
I'm sure it will be happier now though.
One of the disadvantages of gorwing in a pot, unfortunately.
Gutzmek
9 years ago
Merkity,

Link below has some root prune experiences.

Plant is currently blooming and healthy.

Ed

Here is a link that might be useful: root pruning
merkity
Original Author
9 years ago
thx - i was thinking about pruning it a bit, but the ball is so tightly packed right now I decided to simply wash as much old soil off and repot in a larger pot to see if i can get those roots to grow out some. I have been feeding them all this year and gave them some bayer 3-1, but i think this one is still heavily infested with thrips OR very weak still - not sure which but i am losing over half the buds. the good news is that i am finally seeing some newer growth and the new leaves are looking a ton better. I think this is going to take me all summer to recover the plant. I have some spinosad on the way - so hopefully that will help a bit.

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