i have a couple that havent been repotted in 7 years ..

and why no pix?? ...

tip it out of the pot.. AND LOOK AT THE ROOTS .. take a pic.. shove it back in the pot.. and post us that pic also ...

pot media is a water management system.. and when it fails.. you start having water issues .. e.g. the media is not holding enough water relative the the size of the plant.. so the plant is browning.. or wilting ..

we really dont need to repot by some schedule.. or because someone wants to sell you a pot or media..

we fix things that are broken.. and leave things that are not broken alone .. no need to make you life more complicated than need be ..

just to verify all that.. show us a a pic of the plant and pot..

ken

We don't need to repot on some schedule in the same way we don't need to change the oil in our car on some schedule. Does the prudent person wait until the car's engine is damaged and THEN change the oil; or, do we voluntarily follow a schedule designed to head off the inevitable issues that develop when we adopt a laissez faire attitude? Doesn't planning ahead make life less complicated and easier to manage?

The fact is, plants have rhythms and the most important of those to growers is the growth cycle. You CAN repot now and no one will mind, but now is getting close to the worst time of the year to repot. Day length and light intensity are quickly waning, so the plant is about to enter a period where it's likely making about the same amount of energy (via photosynthesis) as it uses. That means that repotting mid-fall through mid-spring is when plants are weakest and slowest to recover. So, while I can't quarrel with the idea we can do what we want when we want (with/to our plants), working with the plant's annual growth cycle by taking advantage of strong periods and making allowances for the weak period that occurs during the darker months not only makes good sense, it will make you feel like a better nurturer, which is not an insignificant part of why we grow things.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and decide to repot. Early to mid-June is the best time to repot a very large % of houseplants. Repotting includes bare-rooting, root pruning, and a change of soil. It's also a good time to do any cutting back of the plant, which would help hasten the recovery.

If you're concerned about rootbound conditions robbing your plant of too much potential, you can pot up at any time without issues; except that, you need to be a little bit more careful about the size of the pot you pot up to at this time of the year than if you potted up in spring or summer. Reason: Slow growth from now through mid-spring means roots will be slow to colonize the additional soil mass, which means it will act as a saturated sponge for unnecessarily long periods.

Al