Does it need repotting? Is the soil mix it's in (quite often) unsuitable and poorly drained?

imo .... its stressed from bringing it home.. if not shipping from grower to seller ... not to mention light /humidity/etc changes ...

so leave it alone for at least a month to let it settle down in its new home ..... just water it properly ...

if you dont like to look at the pot.. do a pot in pot ... and hide it ... one trick is you can buy the new bigger pot.. and use some gravel or some such.. to hold the smaller pot in it ..

or use your media ... then when its time to repot.. your new pot is already filled with media and you have a preformed hole ready for the babe ... presuming of course.. you dont have to rip apart a bad root mass ...

btw.. at the store.. did you slip it out of the pot.. just to observe the roots??? ... if you had.. you would have the general idea whether it was seriously root bound.. and if it was.. you should have walked away ... anyway ...

lastly.. many peeps avoid repotting in winter ... your plants should be slowing down for such.. not getting all wound up from repotting ...

btw.. its stressed.. not hungry ... no fert for now

ken

ps: how are your bags of hosta doing??? .. how about an update in the hosta forum ...

Hi, Ken. I just took some pics of the baby tiger jade plant. For the first one, I split open the plastic nursery pot on one side and very carefully probed with a stick. I was shocked to see NO roots. The roots must be very tiny and concentrated at the top. The apparent fibrous stuff on the right is from the coir that apparently makes up part of its soil. I carefully closed up the split I made in the side of the pot. I will tape it closed. Noticing it was very dry, I gave it some water. The second pic is a view of the plant from above. So what do you think?

Agree with what dbarron said. Unless soil is bad, there is problem with the pot (like no drainage) or plant is really crowded and suffering because of that, there is probably better time to repot. Best is during active growth period - so find out and and act accordingly.

As you can see from the 2 photos, the soil seems OK (maybe could use more perlite and sand), there is no overcrowding of roots, and there are holes in the bottom of the pot. So I guess I won't repot for a couple of months.

Agree again with dbarron - sand, IMO, is not a good amendment. Unless quite coarse and really a grit, not sand...Particles should be at least 2mm, preferably 3-5mm in size. Sand is used for some cacti, but I believe one should be an expert...we are talking growing in pots, where drainage is even more important.