I wish you had trimmed the roots. They grow back quickly and can have a rejuvenating effect on the plant. Peace Lily roots are very invasive.

As far as the soil mix, I agree with not going with a dry mix. I replanted a Peace Lily into a mix of 2/3 turface and 1/3 pine bark. The plant has struggled. I place it on the fire escape where it can receive strong indirect light for most of the day, and I need to water it every single day, or the leaves just "faint". I'm going to replant it again this week into a more typical soil with added perlite.

Your plants are beautiful, and I also love that outdoor deck.

Manuel

Honestly, I only trim roots if they're troublesome. If I can straighten and untangle, I do.

In the untangling process I probably removed 1/8 of the roots, as they were ripped off.

also, just for reference, the large leaf peace lily above is just about 4' tall and it's in a 14" pot. Kind of hard to tell what size it is by looking at the pic.

the smaller peace lily is in a pretty much straight peat mix. Out of the 30 or so plants, it's one of the only ones I haven't switched to the 5:1:1 mix.

Thank you for the kind words!

Do you have the small or large leaf variety? As some around here might now, I'm mostly a fan of ficus. The large leaf peace lily has caught my attention though and I think it looks great.

the outdoor deck is also great. The top half is shaded all day from the direct sun. Perfect place for plants such as these. The bottom half gets full direct sun all day long. That's where I keep all of my sun loving plants. I start the acclimation on the top half of the deck and gradually move them down. By them, I mean ficus ha. Everything else stays on the top portion.

I have a couple of pictures of the plant when I first trimmed the roots

This next pic shows how much root I took off

I washed away all the old soil and used 2 parts turface and 1 part pine bark. It did ok for a few months until it got warmer and I started placing it outside. Even with everyday watering it faints and looks like crap. I will take a pic of it tomorrow. This is a very forgiving plant and I know it will thrive again..

By the way, I can't get enough of PL threads. I love this plant, and look forward to every new thread about it

Manuel,

i also realized another reason I didn't prune more roots. I need an anchor to keep the plant steady in the wind. If I had cut most of the roots off, it likely would have been blown out of its pot.

My 7' braided ficus was easy to tie and support, but this didn't seem like it would have been the same.

Manuel,

The peace Lily mix you used, 2:1 Turface/Pine Bark, did not have enough water retention for you? Just curious as I am experimenting with different ratios and have not yet tried this one. Instead, I've been favoring the 2:1 Turface/Grit for my tropical houseplants.

Great thread on repotting either way!

Ehh824, the Peace Lily would droop every day, and the leaves would become kinda wrinkly. When I took the plant out of that mix, I found that the bottom half of the mix was wet. Problem was the roots didn't colonize much of the pot. I should've taken pictures of the roots, but this time I didn't. In 6 months, the roots had barely grown a couple of inches, and I know from experience that this plant's roots are very invasive

Last week I repotted it using half large grade perlite and half house Kant soil from RepotMe. It now seems happy again.

I'm finding that my plants just don't grow nice enough roots in turface. On the other hand I tried growing a cactus in 100% Turface. It was recently toppled, the pumice spilled out, and I saw that in only two months it has grown a beautiful mass of roots. I'm going to start a separate thread about my Jade Gollum. I took pics of the roots. It was in the same mix of 2/3 turface and 1/3 pinebark. It has a lot of roots, but they just didn't look right. I think I'm going to stop using turface.

Heres a picture of my peace lily today

When I transplanted it last week, I decided that instead of having all the plants in there growing from the center, the way they are usually sold, I was going to place them randomly, for a more "messy" look.

I need to repot mine. Its become a massive bunch of leaves and hasnt flowered since 2014

LOL

Dave, I was going to say... only 500 threads? What, were most of them deleted? HaHa! But then I did a quick search, and there were 3,073 threads that showed up. Had me worried there for a sec. Don't do that! :P

This year, I kept my braided Ficus Alii out in full, direct sunlight all day long, all season long. (I used to keep it partially shaded.) I originally planned on keeping it in full sun only during springtime, when the sunlight isn't quite as intense. But it seemed to love it, so I left it where it was and kept a close eye on it. It has grown so many new leaves that it's now top heavy. Plus, it stays very thirsty. So I have to water it just about every single day. A small price to pay to make sure it stays so full, beautiful, & healthy.

Quite a few FLF threads of late too. Seems theyre a touchy plant to keep!

I repotted all of mine but I root pruned very harsh. So I had to do the same to the foliage.

Does root pruning work well for Peace Lily? I often use that technique to keep a plant from getting too big.

It is best to simply divide clusters. New plants start very easy.

Normally I do a light pruning and repot, about 1/5 of the roots. This time a did a harsh one and had to cut most of the foliage off.

Vance, the roots will grow back quickly and so will the foliage. Very resilient plants.

Anthony, I agree that it's best to divide it. And start new ones, but some of us don't have the space

Well I lost one pl to root rot and quickly reported the rest. My 511 had too many fines in it. All of the soil was saturated below roots and when I repotted this time the soil was clumped together. Needless to say I sifted the soil better this time.