I have 4 bhut plants. except nowadays they're not really bhut plants anymore, because that implies that they'd produce bhut pods. instead they are merely ugly shrubbery. now I admit it's my own fault. when transplanting them, for some reason I thought well compacted soil would be a good thing. so they had VERY compacted soil. and they're 2 per 5 gallon pot, so they were also excessively root bound, in over compacted soil. and the soil it was in wasn't very good to begin with either. that's a terrible combination.

so I took a pair of shears to them and cut a 4ft tall plant down to almost nothing, and cut the other plant in the pot off at the soil line, cut down all but a 6" cube of the roots, which I broke up a bit. I repotted it in loose well draining soil with lots of perlite and bone meal, in it's original pot by itself. basically what I did was sorta like overwintering the plant, but winter only lasted a few minutes here. if it springs back, I'll do it to the other ones too.

here it is in the pic. I left a few leaves on to make its recovery a bit smoother. it seems like a lot of perlite floated to the surface, but that's ok, there's a ton of it in there.

did I miss anything?