Wow that's some good growing:). I get so excited when I see beautiful roots:)!

Wow!!! Thats some babe you got there....such beautiful little plants....like it so much

Oh my gosh. I've never had s baby with roots like that!!! Beautiful

Thanks :) Now I want to get all the babies out of those 1-1/2 clay pots, see how they're doing!

I need to find more of the little square ones. I've only been potting the babies up as I acquire little 2" nursery plants and put them into 4"... some of these babes are going gangbusters and I just don't have enough 2" pots to go around :/

I have the same dilemma. I run out of the perfect sized containers. I should go to the hydroponic shop. They have every fertilizer and plastic container a person could ever need or want:).

I have so many of these. I believe they're 3 inches:). I would love a ton of 3-4inch square pots:).

That first pic seems rather small to unpot, I'd leave such small pups to get bigger for a while.

As to the rooting, respectfully all I see is the grit, can't see any of the roots at all (yes, I assume there are roots under there holding the grit).

I'd be curious enough to remove the grit from the roots to see the actual state of the roots. I though gritty was supposed to fall away from the roots, sure doesn't seem so.

Very awesome, bunk! Also a very beautiful gritty mix:)

re pots: I got some of those little plastic shot glasses from the party section of Walmart for baby plants. It was easy to pop some holes in the bottom.

also, I found some tiny clay pots for .38 cents at the Walmart as well.

Kara - someone mentioned prior that Lee Valley has little square pots, that's my next place to check out.

Lauren - I've tried the mini red solo cups and also small portion cups (like ketchup cups at a restaurant). They're great for wee starts but a little light and flimsy (I get spilly when moving trays around hah!). I still prefer the terra cotta minis for leaf babies. I'm looking for the next size up, for when they outgrow the 1-1/2 terra cotta.

lmonstella - the first pic was the very same plant back in September, I didn't unpot that one... I let it grow for 9 months first ;) And respectfully, I personally wasn't curious enough to disturb the roots by picking off the mix. I just back filled the 2" pot with fresh mix so they can keep on spreading! The roots pretty much filled that whole 1-1/2 clay pot ... also I did say that it's -mini- mix, therefore has small particles that aren't heavy enough to drop from the roots like larger-gauge gritty does. I'm sure a good shake would have dislodged most of it, but there was no reason to do that.

kd

She like she her new digs, I think ;)

Kd

Good growing! I agree about not shaking the mix off. I tend to just pot up smaller plants. Unless they have encircling roots, then I'll fix the outside of the rootball but the inside is usually good. =)

No, sorry, I missed mention about mini-mix. Looks good & nicely settled in its new home.

But since this mix is inert, why'd you have to give it new mix (am just curious), since I thought part of the benefits of gritty was it didn't need to be changed so often being largely inorganic.

Pretty little rosettes, looking so pristine, good luck, tho' it seems you don't need it.

Larger pot - needed more (fresh) mix :) I went from an 1-1/2" round to 2" square. You can see the size difference in pic #3.

I was out of bark fines, so the added mix is just perlite, grit and oil-dry 1:1:1. Lots of perlite settled to the top when I tapped I down, which I am not that fond of but will have to live with until I find pumice!

Kd

Lee Valley had 4 inch squares last time I was in....its hard to find sturdy square pots smaller than that, IME..

Those are some fantastic roots, good growing :) !!

Ohhhh yes, 4" squares not 2". Well, I do have quite a number of plants in the 3.5" round pots that need to be potted up as well, so that'll work for me regardless :) thanks Beth.