Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Should I transfer my rosemary to another pot?

Would it be a good time to re-pot my rosemary?


I bought a rosemary plant in early december. The container it came in has no drainage. Should I repot it now or wait until spring? It's an indoor plant but I give it outside sun a few hours a day. Which will be more harmful to the plant? Repotting or poor drainage? Also any extra tips on how to care for my plant will be much appreciated. :)

Should I transfer my rosemary to another pot?
Should I transfer my rosemary to another pot? . . . . ABSOLUTLY and the quicker you do that the better chance that your rosemary will live out the month.





What you have Rose in now is an UNholey container. THE WORST kind. This means no drainage. This means that the roots can not get air. This means no oxygen and rot sets in. This means that Rose will lose her roots and die.





Rose will do best in the strongest lighted place you have in your house. The strongest (direct sunlight) for the longest amount of time each day.





To kill a plant by transplanting one must destroy as many roots as possible. Of course even the greenest of thumbs has good sucess in transplanting.





An Unholey pot does the job of killing roots quite well. Poor drainage is right up there with Unholey. The bad guy is trapped water and submerged roots. Each irrigation adds more water and the water level creeps upward.





Rosemary is Rosmarinus officinalis. Rosmarinus from Latin means sea dew. Sea dew because Rose was discovered on the cliffs of southern France that over-look the Mediterainian sea. This is pretty much a dry situation and as such you only need to irrigate Rose when the potting medium is dry about one finger joint down. Avoid keeping Rose wet. She will hate you and show it by becoming ugly - rangy.





The Virgin Mary washed her sky blue cloke and hung it over a rosemary bush. Hence, rosemary flowers are sky blue and bring luck.





Rose is an herb. This is the rosemary of fine cooking. Her leaves are the essential, areomatic, flavoring spagitti lovers know.
Reply:Thanks so much for your advice! Darn I was too late to pick best answer so I voted for you. She is much happier now. :) Report It

Reply:The idiot who put a rosemary in a non draining pot should be shot! Avoid buying anything from this source again. Repotting will do it no harm at all, but rosemary definitely does not like wet feet. It really wants to be an outdoor plant too, it is a sunlover, but if your outdoor conditions do not suit, you can overwinter it indoors.


If you are only keeping it inside because you like the look, try getting a second one, and giving them turns inside and outside - say a month each.
Reply:Yes, repot. Never be afraid to repot an indoor plant if it is looking potbound or if it is in a bad container. If you want to be thrifty, however, you might try drilling a few holes in the bottom of the pot you already have.
Reply:Definitely repot it.





Rosemary is an herb that doesn't like an overabundance of water -- "wet feet" can kill a rosemary plant. As others have said, you don't have much to lose by repotting -- just handle the roots cautiously, perhaps spreading them out a bit, but don't tear at them.





The sun is a great thing for rosemary, potted or otherwise -- it's actually a tender evergreen perennial, native to the rocky Mediterannean coasts, and thrives on sun and, believe it or not, sandy and not particularly fertile soil. So, good drainage is essential.





Fertilize a bit when spring arrives, but don't fertilize now, and don't overdo it in any case.





Good luck!

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