Does (Pot) Size Matter?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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When it comes to houseplants, thinking about pot size in terms of root ball size is best. Other topics, like pot type, drainage, and plant habits are important considerations as well! Krystal Duran is a houseplant expert who knows all the ins and outs of the topic of houseplant containers. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3SoRAnL Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3u910cK Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3Qu2Cp0 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3QMhBMB Learn More: 31 Flowering Houseplants For Your Indoor Garden Connect With Krystal Duran: Krystal Duran, a plant care educator who enthusiastically shares her houseplant experiences, houseplant tips for beginners, while encouraging others to take on the world of indoor house plants. Instagram TikTok YouTube Pinterest Facebook Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have one question for you guys.
0:14.0	Does size matter?
0:17.0	Does pot size matter?
0:19.0	We have Crystal back on the show.
0:20.0	Plants with Crystal had to make the joke.
0:23.0	It does though is the thing.
0:24.0	I mean especially in house plants size really does matter as far as the pots go.
0:29.0	So how do you approach this?
0:31.0	How do you explain this to a beginner? So my image, whenever I have someone that does a plant consultation, my image is just one stem and a massive paw.
0:44.1	And so I always say your roots are trying to make up for all that matter that is in the
0:52.4	plant that is not able to soak up the right amount.
0:55.1	So you're essentially dying, or killing your plant, it's dying because it's drowning in its own soil.
1:01.5	So I like to think of pot size as cradling your root ball versus having a huge
1:09.6	space to swim in it. That's an interesting way to put it. I never really thought about it that way. I guess I've always
1:16.4	thought especially when I first started out with houseplans I thought well why wouldn't you put
1:26.0	even the smallest cutting in the pot size that it would eventually grow into right but the way you put it makes sense like you have
1:30.6	basically one little tap root maybe a little offshoots of roots, nothing too crazy there.
1:35.6	Yeah, and it's just sitting in this bulk of wet soil that it has no ability to drain because the only thing that's going to drain it at that point of moisture is that one route or
1:47.0	the evaporation or sort of position of that pot but what's that going to do you know so when so when you think a pot size, do you think, number one, not too much larger than the root ball is at that point in its growth, and then two, there's probably got to be some sort of consideration for
2:04.3	what that plant might like as far as how constrained its roots are right so
2:09.0	recommended is about one to two inches larger than the root ball.
2:12.9	And so if you have something that's large
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