Welcome back everyone to House Plant Appreciation Week here on the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're joined by Lisa Steinkov. She is a blogger, a

House Plant enthusiast, House Plant Horder if you will, and the author of many books.

Her most recent is house plant party, fun projects and growing tips for epic indoor plants.

So, Lisa, we've talked about a lot of houseplant stuff this week. It's been awesome.

What about repotting and what about up-potting? I think sometimes, many people think these are

interchangeable words. And first of all, I guess is is that true or not?

Well I don't I don't think it is when I say repatting especially here when it's when fall comes.

You know plants can slow down we slow down on the fertilizer because usually between maybe October and end of February, beginning of March, here in Michigan, they're not, our plants aren't doing a whole lot because there's just not enough light for them.

So what if you buy a plant in the fall and, or even in the winter, and you want it to not be in that unattractive plastic pot it came in.

So are you going to go buy a, if you bought a four inch plant for example,

are you going to go by a six inch or an eight inch

pot to put it in at this time of year no you're not you're going to just repot it that

to me that means just switching out your grower's pot and you're going to switch it into a decorative same size pot.

You're just repotting it.

Now, up potting to me is then you're going up a size.

So if you buy a plant, now in the fall,

if you do buy a plant that is so root-bound

that all it is is roots, you probably

could get away with up potting it.

But as a rule, I usually only up pot something,

you know, in the spring and early summer.

Because then it has time to fill, to fill that extra new potting medium with roots before, you know, to me, winter

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